An indie game designer from Philadelphia. I made Phantasmaburbia, Escape from the Underworld, Dubloon, Assassin Blue, and a whole bunch of other titles. You can follow me on Twitter @theBanov or on my website, Dumb and Fat dot com.
Sling It! is a slingshot/shoot-em-up hybrid for iOS, Android and PC. In this postmortem, designer Greg Lobanov illuminates the game's achievements, and also how the game's design and poor business/marketing decisions barred the game from ultimate success.
I object to categorizing Braid and Portal puzzles as non-systemic and destiny driven--there 's no predefined outcome for any of the player 's meaningful environmental interactions. Either game could exist as a blank, empty room where the player gets to rewind time / fire portals, and they could do those ...
My main gripe is that there 's a downvote button at all--why should any game be actively PREVENTED from getting on Steam I thought it was about the community supporting what they liked, but it feels more like a lion 's den to devs like me.
