Steven Yau

🕹️ Game Maker Geek and UK Games Angel investor

👔 @gather_town (prev @playcanvas / @snap, @King_Games, @Playfish and @EA)

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[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

#gamedev #indiedev

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

@NiallMGMT Sorry, I can't see anything there

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Slowly making progress through my book backlog 📚

"Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke covers how often we wrongly link results with the quality of decisions made to get there and the need to separate decision making quality from outcomes.

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

@NiallMGMT Which messages? I don't see any in X

[Leonidas Maliokas @PlayingInCanvas]

Working on a battle royale game for Crazy Games, built in PlayCanvas + Solar Tools. 100 connected players, 700x700 units wide map, 11 unique weapon types. In video battling bots.

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Really happy to be sponsoring @LBMentorship this year! They are now in their 8th (!) year of supporting UK games industry people progress their careers with the mentorship programme

Join as a mentor or mentee at https://t.co/J01yh43cGZ

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

@javierabegazo Hi! You used to have a Game Dev LFW Notion site at https://t.co/FF4nAxn00e

Did it move? If so, where to? I had this in my GameDev Megadoc and noticed the link was dead 😅

https://t.co/zFyRVVx2vT

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Really happy to sponsor like this! 🎮 These events and more are much needed to help our industry grow.

Can't wait to see what gets showcased!

https://t.co/gacoKGHI9V

#IndieDev #GameDev #GamesIndustry

[Detective Fantasia EXCALIMURDER @DetFantasia]

Sprite stacking 101 🧩
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

@franzwarning @wavedash Fully remote or location specific?

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

In Netflix in No Rule Rules, they also talk about how each person has virtual 'chips' (budget) that they can make bets on decisions/projects with. Their performance isn't judged on a single outcome but from the aggregate and requires 'zooming out' from individual results.

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

We often hyper focus on individual results and outcomes instead of looking at our decision making over a longer period regardless of the outcomes.

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

@jeff_weinstein @stripe I forgot to say what the original problem was 😅

We wanted to change only the price item in a subscription at the end their current billing period

Unfortunately, subscription schedules require the whole item, inc quantity which could be changed by the user in the current cycle

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Know when you are getting old: when you realise you need glasses to play video games from the sofa 🤓

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Awesome work by @PlayingInCanvas and the team 🎉

[Leonidas Maliokas @PlayingInCanvas]

🚀 It’s live.
A 3D world that opens instantly in your browser.
No app. No install. Just click → play.

[State of Play @State_of_Play]

Yes we’ve been quiet but we’ve been underground, hard at work on a Top Secret project… we give you SPYCRAFT.

It’s for the Board, a brand new gaming device: https://t.co/eUEwUYtthi

You're a secret agent and you use a real physical Spy Kit on the screen, take a look!

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Find the Gamedev Toolkit Notebook at https://t.co/J25tWuaiA2

#gamedev #indiedev

[Steven Yau @yaustar]

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

#gamedev #indiedev

[Phillip Wang @flippnflops]

I’m excited today to share Grapevine, a system that makes it really easy for AI agents to search company knowledge across, Slack, Notion, codebase, and more. The first app we’re launching with it is a company GPT that works remarkably well, better than any alternative today.