Well with only a year left, there’s plenty of time to start working on that procedurally generated, open world MMO with 24-hour reactive NPC schedules and fully simulated economic markets and weather and tides and continuous level of detail transitions from ground to space and simulated cooking with ingredient modelling and real-time heat propagation using numerical integration and finite element models! (Just watch out for scope creep)
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Wow, I did not know that about UK law. It seems the education from this channel never ends.
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Happy Birthday, and don't be afraid, you have much more money the machine can extract from you in the coming years. They will only turn you into bio fuel once you cannot earn money anymore.
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Such a beautiful text. Though I'm really scared now, I never knew you have such barbaric laws in such a civilized country. Poor you! I'm 37, and I don't feel like an old man at all. So you shouldn't too. After all, where we would heal ourselves and our games if not at your clinic? So take care, Not Old Man, and be happy and healthy! Happy birthday!
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You could always escape to Canada - the parts that aren't on fire or under ice are quite lovely.
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Don't worry Joe, this government are so disorganised they won't get to you for years. They haven't caught me yet!
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First of all, Happy Birthday young lad! I was waiting for Christmas to allow myself to join your Patreon, being unemployed, you know...so I cannot let this opportunity pass...
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Indie Game Clinic
It's my birthday... I'm 39 today! 🥳 Those of you familiar with UK law will know that this means I only have one year left until I'm ground up into a grey paste and fed to one member of the Royal Family.
To celebrate the beginning of my last year alive, I'm doing what any good content creator would do. Capitalizing on it with a Patreon flash sale.
For NOV 13TH ONLY only, you can get an annual subscription to my Patreon at a 40% discount. By getting a year in advance you'll be able to support the channel's continued operation as I run our Discord, schedule regular playtesting streams, stream design and dev work on my own game(s), and put out video essays on game design.
If you're not already a member, and you find yourself in a financial position where you are able to subscribe, joining will get you;
1. Early access to upcoming long-form video content, as well as first drafts of scripts, long before each video is shot. Indie Game Clinic content is meant to be open access, providing game design perspectives on YT and Twitch without needing folks to sign up to an expensive video course course. For this reason, I try to focus Patreon rewards on things which are produced as a natural part of the process; you'll mostly get behind the scenes stuff and early access [including materials from my upcoming book for people who get anything above the cheapest tier].
2. A regular place in our community playtesting streams. These currently happen every other Wednesday and feature a rotation of games being made by members of the Discord. Unlike Indies Under the Knife (which functions on a public service model where games are picked from the backlog whenever it suits the channel) the community playtests allow developers to receive feedback several times during a game's life cycle if they want to.
3. Access to our Discord, which is deliberately kept private to enable constructive collaboration and problem-solving. We're agnostic about tools and technology, pragmatic about the business side without over-emphasizing it, and we focus on design, creativity, and collaborative problem solving over inter-dev competition and the "meta". It should go without saying, but we are also strongly anti-bigot and pro-diversity, and gently anti-AI [we won't bully you for using it, we would just encourage you to listen to gamers, do what's best for your own personal development, and collaborate with humans wherever you can].
So if you want to give the Clinic (and yourself) a birthday present which will last for a whole year, go and use checkout code OLDMAN at www.patreon.com/indiegameclinic. Applies to all tiers except 1:1 mentorship.
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