[Ep460] Opinions Unleashed

In this episode, we discuss developer preferences, reviews, and opinionated tools. External tools often have a lot of opinions on how, exactly, they should be used, which translates into opinions on how YOU should work. Staking your livelihood on someone else’s opinions is a dangerous gambit. A lot depends on the shareholder profit dictum.

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00:26 Intro

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04:19 GameMaker crew

07:20 Localization

16:35 Challosis: What is a game that you love that was not critically well received?

35:25 QuampakPalampie: If you were starting now, would you be using services like Playfab for your backend services, or would you do it in-house all over again?

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Coffee with Butterscotch is the hilarity-filled official podcast of award-winning video game studio Butterscotch Shenanigans, best known for its smash hit Crashlands. Grab a drink and tune in every week to learn how video games are made and sold, our take on building a small company from scratch, and how to be an unstoppable problem-solving machine. Got a question you want answered on the podcast? Ask us at https://podcast.bscotch.net