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A Guide to Improving Your Game’s Steam Page

A Guide to Improving Your Game’s Steam Page

A game’s Steam page is crucial in influencing potential players to wishlist and buy your game. Setting one up can be quite overwhelming, especially to newcomers, due to its many elements. This article will summarize the important points if you’re setting up your first game Steam page.

The Call of The Side-Hustle

The Call of The Side-Hustle

In today’s world to save a little extra cash, widen our skills, or simply to work towards a professional goal, it’s common to see folks working multiple jobs. This article will cover how the Acorn team balances their workloads with their hugely important me-time.

GDC’s State of the Industry Report – Lessons for Social Marketers in Indie Games

GDC’s State of the Industry Report – Lessons for Social Marketers in Indie Games

The state of the games industry is always in constant flux, especially now coming off the back of the covid pandemic. Our industry is one that can survive and indeed thrive with teams of people transitioning to working from home, especially across the indie game landscape. This year’s look at the state of the games industry by GDC reveals some interesting facts, and highlights how community focused teams such as Acorn Games are truly quite unique within video games.

GameOn 423

GameOn 423

Australia is fast becoming one of the greatest places to develop your indie game. From valuable government grants to respected award showcases, new studios and individuals are appearing each year, eager to tell their stories and make their mark on the growing Aussie indie industry.

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#Halloweendies 2022

#Halloweendies 2022

The evenings are darker, the air more sinister and a low fog has descended across the fractured landscape of the indie gaming world. What better opportunity to venture into the basement, dust off the toolbox and highlight our favourite indies by means of a freaky flashlight under the chin.

What Do All Great Game Worlds Have in Common?

What Do All Great Game Worlds Have in Common?

Over the past twenty years or so, I must’ve put in thousands of hours into more than two hundred video games. How exactly do these extraordinary settings draw players into the game? We asked some of our friends in game development to help us shed some light on the complex art of worldbuilding.

Do Video Games Cause Stress?

Do Video Games Cause Stress?

Games are wonderful. They bring people together, they inspire creativity and they teach valuable skills. Despite these boons, there has always been a stereotypical image of the hardcore gamer: aggressive, socially awkward, and eyes so fixed to the action they almost touch the monitor.

Year in Review - What is Your Game of the Year?

Year in Review - What is Your Game of the Year?

Another year of gaming is coming to a close—and what a year it has been! Naturally, our thoughts turn to some of the greatest gaming experiences over the last 12 months, and we begin to ask ourselves, what could be our game of the year? Here are some of the games that captured our attention and kept us coming back for more.

Ones to Watch: The Trending Indies of Late 2021

Ones to Watch: The Trending Indies of Late 2021

We’ve seen plenty of successful AAA releases this year, but the indie gaming scene has quietly been as active and vibrant as ever. We’re always pleased to see small developers succeed as they bring their vision to life, and some tinier titles have rapidly shot to stardom despite smaller scopes. Here are some recent indie games that gained immediate traction, and deserve a special mention.