Danny Weinbaum
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#indiedev founder of Eastshade Studios. Dedicated to making games that feel like places. And you're not there to kill stuff. Working on @glimmerwick
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OUR NEW GAME! Please follow
@glimmerwick
to stay updated! We'll be posting content and Glimmerwick related stuff there, and this account will remain my personal account.
Announcing Eastshade Studios' new game: Songs of Glimmerwick! ✨
A story-driven witch academy RPG where magic is cast through music! 🎶
Coming to PC and consoles, wishlist on Steam:
#IndieGame
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Eastshade, the open world adventure game where you play as a traveling artist, is out now!
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After five years of toiling, Eastshade, the open-world adventure where you play as a traveling artist, will be releasing for PC February 13 this year!
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#MeetTheDev
Hi I'm Danny and five years ago I quite my job as an Environment Artist in AAA games to build my own indie game about being a traveling painter in a fantasy world with round buildings and anthropomorphic people.
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Eastshade, the open-world adventure game where you play as a traveling artist, is now available on Xbox One and Playstation 4 (Americas)!
Xbone -
PS4-
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At the start of my indie career I read a lot of good advice:
MAKE SOMETHING SMALL FOR YOUR FIRST GAME
DON'T QUIT YOUR JOB
"That's very wise." thought I.
Then proceeded to quit my job full stop and spend *FIVE YEARS* on my first game 👍
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Eastshade now has a Steam store page! Wishlist it now so you don't miss release!
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Just two hours to wait before Eastshade, the open world adventure where you play as a travelling artist, is out!
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Have you ever found yourself asking "Why haven't Npc schedules/AI improved in the last 20 years?" The idea of a highly dynamic Npc who goes to work, gets hungry, visits the bar to socialize, etc is very alluring to many players. So why do so few rpgs do it? I'll tell you why:
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When polishing your game, don't forget to do a cat pass. That is- a pass where you go around adding kitties
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A look back at the 5 year development of Eastshade, the open-world adventure where you play as a traveling artist
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We received this bug report yesterday. We leave it unresolved at the top of the high priority board.
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The install size of Eastshade is 1.9 GB. You can fit 44 Eastshades into one Call of Duty update.
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Its interesting to me how folks often perceive any game short of an absolute giga-hit as "obscure" or "underground". There is a veritable OCEAN of games grossing in the millions, selling hundreds of thousands of units, that 99.99% of gamers have never heard of.
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#screenshotsaturday
seriously though- making a working virtual waterwheel has been a lifetime dream of mine. I'm kind of in love with it 😅
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Fun fact: Did you know Unity has already publicly stated their prices will go up willy nilly (presumably retroactively)?
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Something's wrong with my waterwheel but I can't quite figure out what.
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For the mountains of extra bugs and markup it creates, it just doesn't impact the player experience that much! Gamers SAY they'd love it, but in reality they'll just have a meltdown when they can't find X npc, because they're off dynamically taking a dump in the woods or whatever
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Eastshade will be coming to PS4 and Xbox One on October 21!
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📢 Eastshade, the open world adventure where you play as a traveling artist, is 50% off right now. That's its deepest discount yet! 📢
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Typically the review score of a game on Steam is at its highest near release and sinks throughout its lifetime as less interested folks buy the game from deeper discounts, but it seems the bug fixing and optimization we've been doing since launch is paying off! We're on the up :)
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It's almost the four year anniversary since the release of Eastshade! Terrifying! Seems like a good time to repost my postmortem:
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Eastshade has:
-29 quests
-52 fully voiced characters you can talk to
->100 ambient characters
-1.1 km² of explorable area
-2 cities
-4 inns
-11 vendors
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The Kestrel's Aerie - providing a warm bed for travelers and tourists alike!
#screenshotsaturday
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A thread about Eastshade's bike mechanic!
When I originally thought of putting a bicycling in Eastshade, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work, for the simple fact that if it was easy, we'd see a lot more rideable bikes in games. Well, I was wrong. It took a mere week.
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Eastshade is often noted for its lack of combat. First-person games without combat are somewhat rare, but what I think is way more rare about our game is its liveliness. We have 50 fully voiced characters. Almost nobody makes games like that. Only big RPGs do that!
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Nearly two thousand people have 100 percented Eastshade. That's wild. I'm picturing a crowd of two thousand, all who have spent 15+ hours with this thing we made...
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What are some qualities you DON'T care about in games, that many others seem to care about? Mine are:
- Map size (density and variety over size)
- Replayability (barely have time to play you once)
- Invisible walls (don't want me to go there? Gotcha! No prob for me)
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Eastshade has been nominated for Best 3D Visuals in the Unity Awards! This is a huge honor! If you have a Unity account, and fancy Eastshade's visuals, we'd be much obliged if you pop in and give us a vote!
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#unity3d
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okay SO: If you were among those who wished for a non-steam version of Eastshade, its now available on itch!
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Eastshade was included in Polygon's best 50 games of 2019 list! So frkn cool!
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As part of the World Environment day sale, Eastshade will be 20% off until June 7th, and we're donating 10% of our net proceeds to the protection of important and threatened habitats.
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Our debut title Leaving Lyndow is a first-person adventure game released a week ago and was
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We are Steam front paging it at the moment with a daily deal! Woooo!
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Its tons of work to make a game world work without quest markers. I can see why triple-A companies don't bother. However, I'm of the mind that all the qualities that make a world traversable without GPS/markers are the same exact qualities that make the world good in other ways.
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Question: Is it okay to have a waterfall with no secret passage behind it, if the waterfall is _in_ a secret passage way?
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I made a video form of my Eastshade postmortem!
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Ever wondered what a video game sales curve looks like? Here's Eastshade's cumulative net steam revenue (USD) over the first 4 years. Pretty much textbook exponential decay so far.
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I made a spicy video about how product quality (especially quality at a glance) matters, and how to learn what is required to compete
#gamedev
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Is anyone else powerfully nostalgic about splash screens for software or just me? This splash screen makes me practically tear up because it hearkens back to a period of intense inspiration and dreaming. Anyone have a splash like that? Please post I want to see it!
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☣️🦠🌎If you're looking for a lively virtual world to escape to amidst your quarantine, Eastshade is currently 40% off for the IGF award sale ☣️🦠🌎
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Eastshade is 40% off for the next 48 hours!
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In light of the horrific displays of police brutality, and ongoing protests, Eastshade Studios has donated $1k USD to the ACLU Foundation to support the effort to end police brutality, demand racial justice, and defend our right to protest
#BlackLivesMatter
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#unitytips
remember when setting volume in code its in decibels. Relationship between decibels and perceived volume is odd, so I did this:
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To show our commitment to consumers, we will be putting more resources into puddle size management between now and release, to ensure our game has consistent puddle size between our marketing shots and the final game
#PuddleGate
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Eastshade 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 walking 👏 sim. A walking sim is a game where player verbs are pretty much limited to movement and inspecting/listening/reading, and there are almost no ways to change the world state.
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Eastshade is not a one-person dev team. I'd like to shine some light on everyone who has worked on Eastshade:
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#screenshotsaturday
this is a really simple screenshot I took of basically nothing but for some reason I really like it. There is a subtle drama in the sky against those plain hills I feel I did not design.
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Howdy everyone! A bit of a disclosure: Our next game will not be Eastshade 2. It won't be connected to, or look anything like Eastshade. Here is a short blog post saying pretty much that but in more words
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I've been compiling an Eastshade Postmortem for a few months now. I'm finally just about done. Will post it soon!
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#screenshotsaturday
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Couple o shots. Hey if you haven't already, popping in your email for our one-time launch notification is the best way to not miss release :)
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So even though it can help with "immersion" (to use a very tired term) it has to be weighed against how much immersion is broken when someone is telling you how grateful they are that you avenged their fallen son whilst clumsily jittering a loaf of bread over their talking lips.
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😮Eastshade store page visits😱
9am-10am: 66
10am - 11am: 13,953
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When you ask a freelancer their rate, and they ask your budget, basically they are saying "If I charge big budget productions what I charge smaller budget productions, I can't make a decent living. If I turn down all smaller productions, I also can't make a decent living."
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#UnityTips
"Optimize Game Objects" will make it so bone transforms aren't exposed in the scene. This vastly improves performance of mecanim.
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So tomorrow at 7am PST we have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT regarding Eastshade. We'd be deeply appreciative if you could retweet/share it when it comes (the announcement! Not this tweet! :) )
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Today I finished Eastshade start to finish for the first time (stopping many times to fix progress impeding bugs). Play time was 5 hours. That's with knowing where everything is and skipping all dialogue, and also not doing every quest. That's like, WAY LONG.
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What are some specific qualities you love in games that genre descriptors/tags don't seem to cover? Some of mine are:
- lots of npcs who say interesting things
- bustling environments
- Non-combat player goals (otherwise I feel like the world is just an arena)
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The best youtube video on pc games marketing I have ever seen only has 3.5k views. If you want a one hour primer on understanding how to make money on Steam, this is the one!
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Our first game Leaving Lyndow was criticized for its character designs. For Eastshade, In addition to adding full voice and lip sync, we did our best to improve the designs, aiming to move out of the uncanny valley by making them more animal-like, and added more types
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Wheeeeen theeeee moon hits your eye like a big shadian pie
That's amore
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I hope in 15 years or something I can play Eastshade and have forgotten enough to catch a smidge of what it would be like to play as a player.
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Of all the quests we had to cut, I think the one I'm saddest didn't make it was a quest called "For Exposure" where you're asked to make 15 sunset paintings for some NPCs exciting new gallery project. Would have taken many resources, and the reward was going to be nothing.
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