Cheeseness @Cheeseness@mastodon.social

A quick scribble for my first toot ^_^ https://mastodon.social/media/Nx-luloklKdD-0bXlsQ

An egg has been glimpsed!

A foraging screen has been on my todo list from the start, but what it should be and how it should work was always vague until a couple of days ago. Looking forward to polishing it up and sticking it in builds - it's the last major mechanic left \o/ #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Haven't managed to get a photo yet, but I spotted a swallow roosting in the nest last night. It's gon be egg time soon \o/ 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

Added context menus for bees that expose some more details on what individual bees have been up to and gives an option for the camera to follow a bee around #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

Here's a recap of what (little) I got up to in Setpember with the support of my lovely (and patient) Patreon supporters. Topics include Hive Time and GD Quest.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/30647013

Correction, that was meant to be 10.15 (Catalina), not 10.5 -_-

If I do find any spare time, I'd be more excited about using it to dust off one of my PPC Macs and see if I can get builds running on those.

I'd hoped to properly announce this sooner, and have time to add maximum system requirements (there's a mind boggling thought) to stuff, but time's been hard to find, and again, it's hard to be motivated to put in extra effort for a company that's such a shitstain.

Hey friends! If you want to play my games on a Mac, I won't be supporting 10.5 (Catalina). I'll continue to support older versions of Mac OS, but Apple is hostile to my values/way of doing things and I'm done bending over backwards to support them when they're not supporting me.

♫ I'm a little egg 🥚🥚🥚
♪ Swimming in the sea 🌊🌊
♫ Someday I will hatch 🐣🐣🐣
♪ And then I will be free 🐤🐤
♫ I will grow up big 🐔🐔🐔
♪ And leave a gift from me 🎁🎁
♫ Another little egg 🥚🥚🥚
♪ Swimming in the sea 🌊

8/8 The numbers are similar, but the justifications (if any) has to be totally different, since digital retailers typically don't:
* Wear the risk of paying for stock
* Employ sales staff
* Make less profit/a loss on discounts
* Pay to keep a chain of physical stores open

7/8 Early on, Steam's comparatively small catalogue conferred a certain degree of guaranteed visibility and any marketing Valve did had tangible benefit to devs/pubs, mirroring effort physical retailers (who had to make back the money they sunk into stock) put into selling stuff.

6/8 To be competitive, Valve couldn't take more than existing retailer/distributor cuts, and in a young digital market, undercutting price commitments of distribution deals risked devs/pubs losing contracts.

5/8 As the company that primarily popularised mainstream digital distribution, Valve likely drew inspiration from and had to work within the kind of frameworks and pricing models as physical retailers.

4/8 Physical retailers typically buy stock in advance, ordering as much as they think they can sell or have other supply agreements where the distributor still gets paid regardless. That's a huge risk to be worn (ask ET), and markups help guard against that risk as well.

3/8 Physical retailers charge a markup so that they can cover their running costs (cover rent, pay staff wages, have enough cash flow to order new stock, etc.), and so that when they stick stuff on sale, they can do so without losing money/without losing as much money.

2/8 Physical production overheads are mentioned, but retailers typically don't handle production. That's handled further up the supply chain and is covered by the wholesale cost that retailers pay. I'm fuzzy on who pays for transport costs, but I suspect that they're the same.

1/8 It's fascinating that the IGN article on retail cuts mentions physical retailers having typically high markup, but doesn't properly contextualise it (at least not within my understanding of how retail works).