henke on 1/5/2019 at 18:27
You guys on twitter? I don't SEE you there! I'm (
https://twitter.com/Henrik_Hermans) @Henrik_Hermans and also (
https://twitter.com/SeptemberGames) @SeptemberGames. Follow me and we can be TWITTER PALS.
But enough about me, let's talk about some GOOD gamedev twitters. Here are some of my faves:
(
https://twitter.com/crypticsea) @crypticsea - dev behind Sub Rosa, Hockey?, Golf For Workgroups. I'm probably never gonna play Sub Rosa but goddamn the GIFs he keeps posting are
amazing.
(
https://twitter.com/BlendoGames) @BlendoGames - for all your Skin Deep GIF and twitch-dev-stream needs.
(
https://twitter.com/Nothke) @Nothke - Dev behind Derail Valley as well as the upcoming InFinland rally game and desert-dirtbiking game Trails of Tenere and lots of other things.
(
https://twitter.com/glassbottommeg) @glassbottommeg - is making Skatebird. Plenty of great GIFs and overall a great tweeter.
(
https://twitter.com/_naam) @naam - Is making some VR thing with tapedecks, frogs, and social inspectors. I don't know what it is, but it looks great.
(
https://twitter.com/StudioTatsu) @StudioTatsu - is making fancy vehicle physics. Not sure if there's gonna be an actual GAME attached to these physics, but the work-in-progress videos are great.
(
https://twitter.com/niko_stenberg) @niko_stenberg - also doing vehicle physics things. You like gifs of vehicle physic suspension-systems? Who doesn't, right? Follow this twitter TODAY!
Got any recommendations for others? Post them links! :thumb:
Nameless Voice on 1/5/2019 at 19:34
I do have one of these TWEETY-BIRD things, though I rarely use it and am not even entirely sure how.
I'm (
https://twitter.com/VoicelessName) @VoicelessName over there because someone stole my usual name and then never used that account!
Only one I follow is (
https://twitter.com/VariatorGame) @VariatorGame, which is for a SHMUP being made by TF from these forums.
icemann on 2/5/2019 at 01:55
I've never really seen the point of Twitter when there's already Facebook. I prefer to have everything all in the one place.
Pyrian on 2/5/2019 at 04:24
"I should follow Subset!"
"Huh, they don't update much..."
"Wait, I'm already following them."
henke on 2/5/2019 at 07:35
I do prefer devs that keep updates sparse and focused on their games. That's partly why I made a separate account for SeptemberGames. Not that I tweet much on my regular account, but I'd still rather spare people who just wanna keep up with my games from having to wade through my regular bullshit.
Quote Posted by icemann
I've never really seen the point of Twitter when there's already Facebook. I prefer to have everything all in the one place.
Not sure if this is just my experience, but as I see it: twitter is for creatives, Facebook is for normal people. I mean, it's right there in the language these platforms use, people on twitter have
followers, people on FB have
friends. I'm not gonna friend someone on FB unless they're someone I actually know IRL or through forums. But on twitter there's, in a way, a much more open atmosphere of following, liking, commenting on, and sharing stuff by people you don't know. This also makes it better for getting your content out there. If I post my stuff on FB, all my friends are gonna see it, but if I post it on twitter and slap on a #screenshotsaturday or #indiedev tag, a lot of strangers, and possibly new fans, are gonna see it.
Pyrian on 2/5/2019 at 17:08
My experience with twitter was that only a few bots ever looked at my tweets.
Nameless Voice on 2/5/2019 at 22:19
As I understand it - and I'm surely the last person who should be trying to explain social media - there's a major difference in paradigms between those platforms.
Twitter is for making public announcements to the world (generally short ones.)
Facebook is for connecting with groups of friends for semi-private, group interaction. That is why people are a lot angrier at Facebook for its dodgy data usage incidents - the information on Facebook is (generally) not supposed to be public.
Sure, Facebook can also do public pages, but it's not what it was designed for.
icemann on 3/5/2019 at 02:13
Does Twitter have all the tribalism that FB has these days?
And FB tends to not do anything about fake profiles of people being created. I think that's completely despicable of them for that. Would not wish that on my worst enemy.