Antoine Mayerowitz
@antoine.mayerowitz.io
Half of @hushcrasher.bsky.social - PhD in economics / data science / generative art. Paris. mayerowitz.io
I’ll say something you’re not used to hear: It does NOT cost more to make games today. We just make bigger ones. Hear me out. I'm not gonna pretend budgets haven't risen, of course they have. We talked about it in our previous article (newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/did-games-...). 1/4
We're back from the dead! But keep calm, the best is yet to come 🔥
Julie Belzanne@juliebelzanne.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Dev costs have skyrocketed." What does that actually mean? By how much? Since when? The bigger the scope, the higher the rise: x2.5 for solodevs, x3 for AAA in 10 years ($100M ➡️ $300M). @hushcrasher.bsky.social full analysis: newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/did-games-...
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna start calling game teams "kei" and "midi" and not "iii" or "indie" and you're gonna hate it but I'm right to do it, until we have better terms, sorry bro, this is not discourse, this is praxis newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/taxonomy-o...
By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.
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Devs/publishers, stop trusting Steam recommendations to set your game regional prices. They haven't been updated since 2022. And it’s actively COSTING you sales. Good news is, we fixed it! We detail how in this article: open.substack.com/pub/hushcras...
Why "Kei" you may ask? The term sparked a long debate. "Mini" felt misleading, potentially confused with minigames, and carried a "lesser value" connotation. Same for "Tiny", "Micro", and "A-". "Solo" didn't fit 2-3 person teams. Plus, we're two weebs ⛩️
Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · last yr.Indie game is so passe, it's now Kei game
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
People talk about "indie" games, AA, AAA. But no one agrees on what those really mean. With @juliebelzanne.bsky.social we went down the rabbit hole and used a data-driven approach to provide a definitive answer. hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
By the way, what are AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...
hushcrasher.substack.com
Do you (really) know what a AA game is? Or even what an indie game is? We do, now 👉 open.substack.com/pub/hushcras... It's free to subscribe! It's a great way to show your support 🫶 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamedevs #videogames #indiedev #indiegame #IndieGameDev #datasciencetalk #clustering
Bayesian statistics is so much more popular on social media. I guess frequentists are too busy having a job 🤷
Big streamers? Hit or miss. Smaller streamers? Hit. Video games industry is so so competitive (+40 every day) Yet, Twitch is still untapped: high potential ROI & low marketing cost The era of micro streamers is upon us 💎 www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/th... #indiedev #twitchmarketing #gamedev
How Balatro publisher Playstack delivered a marketing masterclass
A carefully curated 'Wheel of Attention' became Balatro's best friend.
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With Bluesky trending again, it feels like the perfect time to repost my course on Pareto optimality #econSky
Antoine Mayerowitz@antoine.mayerowitz.io · 3y agoNew article 👇
I won’t dive into the Python vs R debate. But can we all agree that R {ggplot2} is far superior for plots?
31 years old and I finally made my first accepted pull request for a popular library ✌️
Millenials complaining they don't find "third places": do you know about LAUNDROMAT ? - Heated - No entry fees - Seats - Open 7/7
Being able to use your own domain name to prove your identity is a neat trick. Congrats @bsky.app
