Sly Hopkins Studios

Game dev. Making 'Back To School'. Get my first game 'Elf Kicker' for free on Steam.

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

Official concept video for my next game!! We are going back to school. #gamedev

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

@BrickCenter_ That slight brake from the silver car saved himself

[zayok @zayok6]

just went 1 and 5 on overwatch and got a friend request on steam and accepted and got this 😭😭😭

[Onepeg @Onepeg]

Soooo. It’s a little sus that Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards show has the President of Tencent on the board of said show, showed Highguard last, and it comes out that Highguard was funded by Tencent all along…

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

Someone pretending to be an indie dev is the most disgusting thing you could possibly do in #gamedev

[Insider Gaming @InsiderGamingIG]

Highguard Developer Was Backed By Tencent

https://t.co/D0SYcTVkP8

[Backers | Fortnite News @BackersGamesF]

STEAM IS LAUNCHING A NEW FEATURE THAT WILL CHANGE REVIEWS FOR EVER

People will be able to attach their PC hardware specs directly to their product reviews. This lets others see the reviewer's setup when reading and make it easier to judge whether reported issues such as low framerates, stuttering, or stability problems, are likely apply to their own setup

#Steam | Source https://t.co/GScf9OMlUA

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Robert Duvall has sadly passed away at the age of 95.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

'Castlevania' developer and 'Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement' director Shutaro Ida, has died aged 52

[VGC @VGC_News]

Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died.

https://t.co/H2LO2m8iBx

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

A "gaming news" channel hating on a 2D game for being 2D is crazy

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

“finally we got new exclusive for ps5”

the game:

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Jason Schreier claims Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

“Most video games should not cost $70.”

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

This guy filmed his trip to the Halo 3 midnight launch in 2007, just pure nostalgia.

[Best Indie Games @clemmygames]

bruh

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

Uhhh full permission to Hollywood or any YouTubers to make Elf Kicker into a movie, not sure what plot could be developed from kicking frozen legless individuals into a Santa but go for it. #indiedev

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.

Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.

Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.

So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.

Then the gatekeepers showed up.

When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.

Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.

$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.

The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

[Indie Games Developer - Magazine @igdmag]

It's #ScreenshotSaturday Indie Game Devs. Let's see what you've been working on. #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

Paddy wasn't lying he really can't be knocked out

[Knight's Path @Knights_Path]

Knight's Path — Official Gameplay Trailer

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

Fuck the indie game awards- an indie dev

[Hunter 🎮 @NextGenPlayer]

The Indie Game Awards has disqualified Clair Obscur: Expidtion 33 for its use of GenAI

E33 won Game of the Year, but the award was retracted

Blue Prince is your new indie Game of the Year winner

See more: https://t.co/GOs2LOFnP9

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

@pokerprojones Does that mean you can play in all states now?

[Sly Hopkins Studios @SlyHopkins]

@thomasbrushdev Said no one ever