Borys B. Trienin 📊

@borystrienin.com

indie games business @rcp.family publishing https://songs-of-silence.com borystrienin.com

I got tired of paying for hosting and maintaining WordPress for what was basically a personal landing page, so I rebuilt my website as static HTML in a GitHub repository and deployed it through Cloudflare Pages. Honestly, can recommend. Did I nail it? ☁

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Lost my greatest run, in part, because of the Eruptor Handcannon bug with not registering hits. Until it's patched make sure to restart the game between the runs to avoid frustrating defeats. Anyhow, the true ending of Saros is within my reach now.

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Безкоронний Король стане наступним розширенням всесвіту Пісень Тиші! Це історія про володаря-розбійника Торна, його зграю вигнанців та вибір спадкоємця, що визначить долю королівства.

Songs of Silence@songs-of-silence.com · 5mo ago

A tale of courage and trust begins on May 7th. Wishlist the Crownless King Expansion!

You might have moved on from the February Next Fest, but it's a momentum engine — the afterglow is where breakouts truly shine. I pulled the data 10 days later to check what's up, and, for some, post-fest WL growth exceeded fest growth. 82% kept gaining. Details in the charts ↓

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Valve shows more games crossing $100k+ each year. True. 20k new releases in 2025. ~800 netted >$100k That's 4% of 2025 releases joining a club of ~6k out of 125k+ games on Steam who ever cleared that bar — across all years, still only ~5% The floor isn't rising. The room is getting more crowded.

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Mike Rose@mikerose.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I try not to do ranty threads anymore, but man, this Valve GDC graph has just rubbed me up unbelievably badly This was presented as a good thing - "more games are finding success!" -- when actually the data has just been presented in a tricksy way to make it look like everything is fine