Maybe you already have a Twitter account or maybe you are considering creating one to promote your business or art. This post is going to go over a few techniques to up your Twitter game and get more followers. If you haven’t already you should check out my earlier post https://gildedoctopusstudi…

How do you tell how good of a programmer you are? Is there a fair and accurate ranking system for programmers? Well today I am going to tell you about something I found to be very helpful in this matter. It is a vastly under rated method for determining your programming skill in a real way. The be…

I’ve gotten a lot more interest in this than what I expected. I’m doing a series of interviews with video game developers. If you are interested in participating it is pretty simple. Fill in and answer the questions below and email it to me(gildedoctopusstudios at gmail.com). You can answer them e…

I got asked a question recently by another #GameDev about funding and I realized I’ve come to have a different perspective on this subject than a lot of other young #GameDevs. I pushed pretty hard with studio attempt #1 to get funding. I was even trying to get funding for the group to go to a con…

So you’re a #GameDev and you’ve heard about this great social platform called Twitter. How do you use it? I’m not some marketing guru but I do have 500+ followers on Twitter and I only joined Twitter in May 2019.

First off social media is just that social. You are going to encounter all sorts …

#Frostbite is finally at the point where I can realistically set a release date. Honestly it feels so weird. I’ve been working on this game for quite awhile now and it is odd to think that in just a few more months people I’ve never met will be playing this game. I still have quite a bit I need to…

Just to be completely honest I don’t remember ever playing a horror video game but somehow when coming up with ideas for video games the one that was the most doable was a horror game. I have played quite a few horror board games though and the board game shelves in my house have an absurd numbe…

It started with a racehorse breaking it’s leg. In 2006 the race horse Barbaro shattered his leg during the second race of the Triple Crown. I was watching the race with a group of my friends from Pony Club(Think like a way tougher and ballsier version of Scouts but totally focused on horses.) He e…

If you have a game that has recently come out or is about to I would love to interview you about it for my blog. Just DM me.

For today’s post I’ve asked a dear friend of mine to write a post about where she got the inspiration for a recent novel. I tend to get a lot of inspiration for my games from novels so I thought it would be interesting to ask an author where she got her inspiration from.

Mary Schlegel …