It’s been awhile since we’ve had a business-focused post here on Flippfly.com! The games business is changing at a faster pace than ever. Not only are we in the midst of a console transition, but the mobile market has gone through a maturing phase, and a variety of new platforms have gained prominence. Indie games… Read More
Here it is! The results of the first “Pixel Pressure Cooker” one hour jam. Several of our followers suggested the theme “Polar Vortex” and so that’s what we went with. If you don’t want any spoilers, go straight to the results here: (Unity web player) Here is the stream of the jam if you’d like to… Read More
It’s been a long journey through setbacks and obscurity, but we can see the light! We are very pleased to announce that Race The Sun will be coming to Steam on December 9th, 2013. That’s just about 2 weeks from now! Here’s a summary of what we’ve been through with this game: We launched our Greenlight campaign… Read More
What a crazy couple weeks this has been! A couple weeks ago, we started talking about the situation we were in with Race The Sun. We had done a blog post talking about our sales numbers, and the difficulty of selling games without a big distribution partner like Steam – and it really seemed to… Read More
It’s been a month since we launched Race The Sun 1.0 via our website, using the Humble Widget. It seems like a good time to talk about numbers. Spoiler: Launching a PC game without a major distribution platform such as Steam, is asking for trouble. BACKGROUND For those not familiar with Race The Sun, it’s… Read More