Chris Salzman

Category: videogames

  • You Can’t Win But You’re Still A Good Person is Now Free on iOS

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    Hello, good people, last night an update to “You Can’t Win But You’re Still a Good Person”, a game Scope Creep Studios made almost 6 years ago, went live on the iOS App Store! About 30 days ago Apple emailed us to say we had 30 days to update it or they were going to…

  • Bug Drop! Ad Findings

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    After releasing Bug Drop!, my collaborator, Steve, started to get curious about running ads for it using Apple’s ad platform. He decided to give it a shot because it wasn’t that expensive and, hey, if it works that means more people get to experience the game! So he fired up a few ad types. CPM…

  • Bug Drop! is Live on iOS

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    Go buy and download Bug Drop on iOS! We have a special launch price of $2 and it’ll go up to $3 later. Steve Kemsley and I just published our latest game for the iPhone! It’s about a parachuting bug and is called Bug Drop! It’s a lot of fun. If you like platformers and…

  • Video Games Crunch

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    Polygon published an article about the crunch and emotional labor that goes into most big budget videogames these days. It’s partly a reaction to someone at Rockstar mentioning multiple 100-hour weeks as part of the development process for Red Dead Redemption 2: What will be left of the people who make our games? Crunch exists,…

  • Games I Enjoyed Enough to Put On a List: 2017

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    I wrote one of these last year and found that it sparked some good conversations and also that I checked it throughout the year to remember what the heck I played in 2016. Always blog so you can remember it later. In 2017 my wife and I bought a house and our baby became a…

  • Cleaning NES and SNES Consoles

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    NES Console 72 Pin with four different choices: Boil, Clean Bend, or Replace Clean You can clean the connector somewhat by putting isopropyl alcohol on a clean cartridge and reinserting it a few times. Clean the cartidge between insertions. Or, dismantle the console and clean the connector itself off of the board. Boiling While this…

  • Cleaning NES and SNES Cartridges

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    Your NES or SNES is likely not broken. The problem is almost always do to a poor connection between the console and the cartridge. Over time either the pins inside of the console, or the pads on the cartridge, get corroded and encased in funk. Get rid of the offending materials so a proper connection…

  • Games You Should Play 2016

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    Here are some games I played in 2016 that I think you might like as well. Games are split into what I’m calling a commitment level. Unlike say books or movies I think it’s completely fair to put a game down when you’re stop getting what you’re looking for out of it. Some games are…