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🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter 20 - Bloodborne Mario Kart, Indie Game Fail, Gaming Long plays as a parent
# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by a Part Time Indie Game Dev
🎮 Game News
Bloodborne Mario Kart - Nightmare Kart
An interesting indie game based on a community inside joke. I feel there is ideas we can make as indie game in various sub cultures forums or Youtube comments. Read a while back on HTMAG (How to Makrket a Game : Chris Zukowski) that you can find interesting sub-sub genres on youtube and make a game about it, it can be a way to build a game for a community online with a ready audience.
Nightmare Kart mixes playful racing with hunting monstrous creatures. What drew you to bring horror to racing?
For those who don’t know, Nightmare Kart was originally a Bloodborne fan game before it was rebranded. Bloodborne had a community in-joke about a kart racer spin-off, and that’s where I got the inspiration from!
Read more at Game Developer.
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📱Social Post
Indie Game Fail
Sharing about lessons learnt on Youtube for this Game Dev Dominik Hackl. I like that he managed to publish his game and documented the post launch sales.
Something on my mind is most indie games will fail to hit the astronomical success like hollow knight or minecraft. But still i applaud this indie courage to share about his journey.
Link to Steam Game Summit
Dominik Hackl Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@NicNac2451
🔎 Interesting Finds
Gaming and Parenting
Finding time to play long games:
Interesting article from Crossplay Newsletter on gaming as a parent , looking at how can a parent play long games.
Recently I have tried to finish up Death Stranding and Final Fantasy Remake in my PS4 during the pandemic, I was very late to get a PS4 and got a good deal. Some of these adventure games take 40 hours or more and I can only do it 1-2 times a week max 1 hour and my adventures take about a year to finish.
But once things went back I had less time sometimes only playing 1x a month. I am considering a Steam Deck to play some of these games on the go.
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