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There's a goon dev for Rocket Cat Games. They did Death Road to Canada, Wayward Souls and Punch Quest. They posted in the Mobile Games thread for a while but I haven't looked at it in some time. Edit: Deathstate dev is also a goon Instruction Manuel fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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NimbleBit is largely goon run afaik, so that’s quite a few games to add: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NimbleBit
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Feb 8, 2021 21:48
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Rhymenoserous posted:RoyAwesome made Squad, Kiva made Battletech (Persenche on here I think?) isildur is the SA name for kiva, iirc
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TANKNAROK is goon-made, or at least 33% so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efgWDC7RfEc https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029760/TANKNAROK/ It hasn't sold particularly well, but there's a content update and xbone port around the corner so we haven't given up on it completely just yet. Just don't expect to find a lot of people to play with online. 
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Feb 9, 2021 15:46
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LoboFlex posted:Just don't expect to find a lot of people to play with online. I never get the chance to ask this, but it's a question that keeps popping in my mind: what exactly makes an indie want to do an online game where the chances that it will succeed in attracting an active audience are much, much smaller than doing a single player game where you won't have to worry about the lack of online population?
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Saoshyant posted:I never get the chance to ask this, but it's a question that keeps popping in my mind: what exactly makes an indie want to do an online game where the chances that it will succeed in attracting an active audience are much, much smaller than doing a single player game where you won't have to worry about the lack of online population? Indie developers often make the games they personally would like to play rather than what will be successful. That's what I did at least. I HATED almost every mobile game I tried, and eventually just ended up playing Lolo roms on my phone. Finally I said gently caress it I'll just make one.
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Saoshyant posted:I never get the chance to ask this, but it's a question that keeps popping in my mind: what exactly makes an indie want to do an online game where the chances that it will succeed in attracting an active audience are much, much smaller than doing a single player game where you won't have to worry about the lack of online population? Our situation was a little different since the whole thing started as a bachelor's thesis, and we thought it'd be simple to "just add online multiplayer". I think it mostly boils down to inflated self-confidence and somehow thinking that all the similar games that're failing were somehow missing something we had.
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LoboFlex posted:TANKNAROK is goon-made, or at least 33% so. The graphics are very appealing, good luck!
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RopeKid (Josh Sawyer) did a bunch of games since Icewind Dale.
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Oh, has anyone mentioned SCF's games Exit Fate and Last Scenario? Two solid as hell RPGmaker games, definitely worth checking out.
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Just remembered that Gunscape is also goon made. It was done by diamond dog, who is now banned. https://store.steampowered.com/app/342480/Gunscape/
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:Just remembered that Gunscape is also goon made. It was done by diamond dog, who is now banned. That's odd, when I clicked on the link I discovered I already had it on 'ignore'. Now why did I do that? It was so long ago I can't actually remember what transpired. I wish I could search by name on the Lepers colony and find out.
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So, I looked into the above. Gunscape was made by a goon initially known as The Radix, name later changed to diamond dog. diamond dog went into a very weird paranoid rant in a post funny pictures thread in YOSPOS where he thought free speech had ended in the forums because he couldn't throw transphobic slurs anymore, eventually culminating in a ban after he wouldn't calm down. No idea how the game turned out, though I did watch an intro video of it and it looked like an amusing mix of original Doom + TF2 + Minecraft. There were a lot of posts about the game in the Making Games Thread, mostly by him, but some goons legit looked excited about the project. It failed on Kickstarter at first, but still managed to launch. I guess him later outing himself as a complete douchebag means none of that matters, though. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Updating the spreadsheet is a journey as I add in Gunscape, then remove its store link, then adding "made by banned, transphobic goon". Whee! Who is SCF? Do they have a longer username?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Who is SCF? Do they have a longer username? Here. SCF is the full name. Has also made a bullet-hell shmup, Call of the Underworld. Edit: there's also two goon LPs for both Exit Stage and Last Scenario. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 16:49
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Saoshyant posted:Here. SCF is the full name. Oh! Thank you, this is good to know. And I've read those LPs - many years ago. I recall enjoying them enough to save fanart from one of them.
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I've worked on and released a couple games, so I thought I'd mention them here! I'm the only goon on our two-person team, hopefully that's enough to qualify for the list. You can find them all on our itch.io page. Our latest game is on Steam, it's a silly futuristic sports game called Cyber Badminton 2020.
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Sir_Phobos posted:I've worked on and released a couple games, so I thought I'd mention them here! I'm the only goon on our two-person team, hopefully that's enough to qualify for the list. That's absolutely enough! Put 'em on the spreadsheet and I'm looking at Broken Silence because a visual novel about escaping a killer sounds awesome. It's also really cool that you made a lightweight version of the game for those who can't run the original!
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If we're including games with slight ties to goons isn't there some goon that still gets residuals from Madden since he wrote some bit of code they still use from the super nintendo era or something lol
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Here's one more: Ejected Star by Varsity
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Babe Magnet posted:If we're including games with slight ties to goons isn't there some goon that still gets residuals from Madden since he wrote some bit of code they still use from the super nintendo era or something lol It's probably not much of a story, but now I'm curious what exactly it is that they are (or were) still using.
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Technobabylon https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3794989&pagenumber=696&perpage=40#post510917468
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Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games has an account, but he only registered for an LP of the Blackwell series so I don't think that really counts.
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I made the tutorial game in Construct and learned that I am, beyond belief, a huge idiot.
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I can't find any evidence of this but I seem to think Wrassling was goon made - anyone confirm or deny? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kappsule.wrassling&hl=en&gl=US
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A LOVELY LAD posted:I can't find any evidence of this but I seem to think Wrassling was goon made - anyone confirm or deny? I'm confident you're right, but damned if I can remember the goon responsible.
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That's Folmer Kelly and he's definitely a goon. :0)
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It's not quite out yet for full release but To Ash and Ember is goon-soft. It does have an alpha build on Itch.io for the brave few who don't mind wading through an early alpha game: https://firgof.itch.io/to-ash-and-ember e: Oh. And I'm the goon. The one making the thing above. Technically Star Ruler 1 and Star Ruler 2, by extension, were also made by a team that included goons since I was the co-lead developer on both. Both are 4X/RTS Hybrids. The second one tried really hard to shake off all the rust the 4X model had and includes the Diplomacy system I put a lot of sweat and tears into. Sadly, I wasn't as good of an artist then as I am now so expect the look of games with no art department. Second game's totally open source by the way; feel free to fork it and dissect it to learn stuff or build your own 4X/RTS Hybrid if you like working with C++. SR1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70900/Star_Ruler/ SR2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/282590/Star_Ruler_2/ Firgof fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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I released Stacksquatch, a cozy VR game. It might not be as big as other games here but it took me ~6 years as a solo dev so it's big to me :] https://store.steampowered.com/app/937090/Stacksquatch/ http://stacksquatch.com/
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Hover posted:I released Stacksquatch, a cozy VR game. It might not be as big as other games here but it took me ~6 years as a solo dev so it's big to me :] That looks cool. Wish I had the hardware to try it out.
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Saoshyant posted:That looks cool. Wish I had the hardware to try it out. Thanks! I get that a lot :_) Maybe someone will care enough to LP it one day.
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Hover posted:I released Stacksquatch, a cozy VR game. It might not be as big as other games here but it took me ~6 years as a solo dev so it's big to me :] Congrats on the release! It looks great 
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I made The Blue Box and the games it contains, in addition to Tiny Talos: https://entrancejew.itch.io/tiny-talos https://store.steampowered.com/app/739010/The_Blue_Box/
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For the "games with team members who are goons" list, there are quite a few goons at Paradox Development Studio. Johan (one of the studio heads) posts in the Paradox thread sometimes although I don't know if he has much of a presence outside of it - Wiz (Martin Anward) was a Let's Player and modder before getting hired at Paradox and at one point was the director for Stellaris. There are a few others whose names I don't remember off the top of my head but have a pretty regular presence in the various Paradox threads, I don't think there are any Paradox developed games at this point that haven't had a goon hand in them at some level. *edit* also just remembered, Everdraed had a pretty notable contribution to Undertale The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3958903 - To Ash and Ember A neat choice driven horror rpg! Under construction, in alpha.
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Has anyone mentioned that Mr Podunkian helped out (I think significantly?) with the latest few updates for Stardew Valley? He also makes games on his own, of course, but I mean... SDV.
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Donnerberg posted:Chewbot did the story for Banner Saga. I don't know if they worked on the whole series. It's really funny knowing this, and realizing that a combination of Oregon Trail, X-COM, CYOA, and vikings is basically the gooniest game possible. Also completely unsurprising based on his Oregon Trail LP: https://lparchive.org/Oregon-Trail-(by-Chewbot)/
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Has anyone mentioned that Mr Podunkian helped out (I think significantly?) with the latest few updates for Stardew Valley? He also makes games on his own, of course, but I mean... SDV. He also made this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/327510/WASTED/ Is it ok to post wishlist links? I'm currently workin on my steam page
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Shoehead posted:He also made this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/327510/WASTED/ Yeah, hit it! I want to see goon made games. (Even if I'm now super slow and terrible at updating the spreadsheet)
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Shoehead posted:He also made this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/327510/WASTED/ He's also got this awesome platformer in the works called The Underside that I'm looking forward to. 
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