Comments on: Do You Blog (Why? Why Not?)

By: Redwave

Redwave — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:29:27 +0000

Well I have a blog about indie games and gaming in general, but it requires a bit to much of my time..

By: Sargon

Sargon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:29:07 +0000

One of the reasons I stopped blogging is that I didn’t have enough time for it. Since I have a full time job now, and I also work on my game. So yea, projects like that could take a lot of time. ;)

By: Juuso

Juuso — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:08:16 +0000

there’s gama & gamedev. indiegamer (sort of). and others too. what I’m thinking is that for example this blog already has sort of established audience & regular readers. turning gameproducer.net into one big portal – would it change anything? (I took a small attempt on this once, but couldn’t put enough effort into it and community management was taking time from other stuff)

so… I have no doubts that this couldn’t be handled. In fact, I know it can be handled. It’s more about “what is the exact niche/uniqueness in this” (indie? or perhaps game marketing? game business?) and whether I’d be willing to drop off other stuff: I couldn’t possibly do game development if I was working on this.

I know it could be done.

Just thinking out loud.

By: Sargon

Sargon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:03:36 +0000

@Juuso, sounds like a great idea. There is gamastura, but it is too big for the small unrecognized indie developer.
However, I am too “burned” from blogging, I was investing a lot of time and thought at my blog post and didn’t get too many “regular readers”.
But your idea might encourage me to write a blog post once in a month or so.

The big question is, can you pull it off?
You might create such a website but there won’t be too many visitors.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:28:28 +0000

I blog, both to stay visible in the industry, and to find like-minded developers. I write about odd and innovative game art at http://www.uncommonassembly.com, and I find that when I task myself to put out a post every month or so, I really keep my head in the game and stay aware of the amazing things being created in the indie space. I’ve met some pretty inspiring people that way.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:38:24 +0000

hmm, could it help if we devs would combine our forces? some sort of huge indie dev hub/portal where folks could publish their blog, promote their games, discuss at the forums, socialize, network?

If blogging every day (or week… or even month) is an issue, then perhaps this sort of big hub would attract visitors – and ensure we all would have audience ready when we are writing stuff.

Just thinking out loud.

By: Jim Perry

Jim Perry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:10:38 +0000

I have a blog, but I suck at keeping it updated. :( Every year I make a resolution to do better, but I fail. Maybe if I get to the point where game dev is my full-time job I’ll be better at it, but Real Life (mainly my pays-the-bills job) kills me.

By: Sargon

Sargon — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:35:47 +0000

Well, it just seemed like you are not aware to the fact that there are “a lot more bloggers than readers” out there.
So this is kind of an answer to why not to blog. :P

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:29:20 +0000

Well… that doesn’t quite answer to my “why you blog (or not)” question… :D

or does it?

By: Sargon

Sargon — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:14:36 +0000

I was trying to say that you are a rare exception. There are tons of blogs out there, most of them are rarely read eventhough the blog’s owner provide quite a lot of content.