I'm making a new game
Also a rebranding
Hi! You’ve not heard from me in a while but I promise that you willingly, under no duress, gave me your email address to reach out to tell you about my games.
I’m Joe, I was making a game called 7 Cycles, or more specifically, I was making a demo for it and then I was trying to get a publishing deal for it during one of the worst years to publish a game in a long while.
So I’m not making the game anymore. For now…
I’ve been working on a new game since around January this year which is what the next post is going to be talking about. It’s still a pretty weird narrative heavy game but this time the key idea is that I can self publish it!
I need to start proving that I know what I’m doing and the best way to do that is to show it so watch this space for info on what the next game is going to be, and a bit of insight into why I’m making it.
Now for a bit of meta commentary on what this blog/newsletter was and is going to be now.
I made this for me to talk about games personally after getting rid of Twitter. I found the pressure of writing to be de-motivational and I ended up having multiple drafts of posts I never published because I was overthinking them too much.
I always wanted this to be conversational and easy so from now on it will be. I will try to not be a bad writer but for now, I’m not a good writer so that’s just how it’s going to be.
Also the blog was called “Joe Bloggs: About Games” as an attempted clever way of making this generic enough it could replace social media. That was NOT a good idea. Now it’s “Joe Frame: Making Indie Games” because I need to start using this to help my future self out rather than just vomiting hot takes into your inbox (I only WhatsApp hot takes now).
As always please reply if you want to have a chat about anything!
Ciao.