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disciple wrote:You'll have to publicise better than that. Where can I buy it from?!

Not steam, ho ho ho!
www.spheresofchaos.com

Well I finally published it, yours for $4.99, or approx £3.15+vat.
Grrrrr vat, I'm not vat registered and should not have to charge it at all, but fastspring only has 'we handle vat' or 'you handle vat if you give us your vat registration', there's no 'don't charge vat at all' option.
I sold 6 ...

I thought that was only casual portals?
Maybe it is, I was just googling around and 'the portals have done a lot of testing and settled on 60 minute time limit' is an opinion I saw more than once. They could well have been talking about casual of course and I wan't paying attention enough.
I seem ...

A couple of questions:
Do I need a company name?. I have just used my own name before, but all other indies seem to have a company name these days. And if I do, should it just be 'Spheres of Chaos games', to leverage (I hate that marketspeak word btw) my established brand?.
What sort of limitation ...

gravy wrote:Do you reckon a name change would help? At least called it Sphere's of Chaos 2

I already used '2', this is really '3'. But I'm using 'Spheres of Chaos 2012', and the rather crap tagline 'Forget Planet Niburu, here's Spheres of Chaos 2012'

My advice- send the demo RockPaperShotgun's way. They generally quite like this sort of thing.

It's already there (previous version anyway), and they did like it:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/spheres-of-chaos/

And I provided that link to Steam
And these too:
http://www.rotheblog.com/2008 ...

Cool, I've not seen that one before.
The reply from Steam had a 'decision is final and we are not prepared to discuss' feel to it. I suspect getting SoC on Steam will require going past the front desk to someone higher up.

Someone who is prepared to actually download and play the demo.

A nice ...

Just a little comment as I went to watch the video, and it was pretty destroyed due to encoding artifacts. How about a higher resolution/higher bitrate video ?

Even at that low resolution the video recorder dropped the framerate right down to 20 fps instead of 60. My PC is getting on a bit now.
I ...

I think among the various things steam used not to take any game that had a metascore below a certain % ... Which was a bit of a catch 22 situation .. Dunno if things been changed in that.

What's a metascore?
Googles 'metascore'. Ahh, I don't think I even have one of those, not for the old ...

Sumbitted Spheres of Chaos to Steam yesterday.
Today I get a reply:
'We have taken a look at the information provided and determined that Steam is not a good fit for distribution.'

<Insert rant here about not being as indie-friendly as claimed etc etc>
I shall use the tagline 'Spheres of Chaos 2012 ...

Ixquick seach engine.
It has a 'view this site through our proxy' link for each result. TPB's search doesn't work through the proxy, but TPB's search is not so good anyway. And you can't usually view the 2nd+ page of TPB search results due to a bug in ixquick. But you can get the magnet uri's and ...

Don't the shoulder buttons on the 360 pad do anything?

I went for fuzzy-blob particles because that's what graphics cards can do, and it looked very nice so I went with it. I thought writing single pixels would not be very modern-graphics-card friendly either.

What's the best/fastest way to do ...

The shield flickers a bit
It flashes on and off as it is running out, but the fade/echo/afterimage (what's it called?) effect tends to obscure the flashing a bit because when it's flashed-off you see the afterimage.

and it can be a little tricky to see all the little bastards swarming in on you ...

Jamesac wrote:Argh! Feedback (graphics-related, because the gameplay is perfect) delayed by Christmas. Details soon-ish.

Feedback in here please, all in one place (and it helps bump the thread...).

one dodgy thing worth pointing out - when your ship reappears after getting killed, the graphics show it pointing upward, but the firing and thrust stay as if your ship is pointing the same direction as when you died.
Probably something to do with the kludge I added to make it controllable by pad ...