2009 Retrospective

Oh... a new year has come and it's time for a view back on the year past from a Spell of Play perspective.

2009 was a social year for me. TWTPB launched late 2008 and much of my energy went into marketing and getting the word out there about twtpb, hUb and Spell of Play in general. This was also the time when I discovered twitter and I quickly took it to my heart... probably a bit too much Sticking out tongue There is even a way for you to connect your spell of play profile and twitter profile, via our twitter app Game Twtr

Via twitter we got a bunch of followers and visitors to our website, I tried doing twitter contests, blogging contests, appeared on some pod-casts and also a web show featured the spell of play homepage. We then decided to host a small game development gathering called SoPCon in Gothenburg. We also managed to end up on a list of Swedens hottest small game developers resulting in some local radio and tv-interviews. Things where looking good!

However, as it seems reality catches up sooner or later Sticking out tongue and I've felt quite uninspired, burnt out, call it what you want after summer. The end result was that I did not manage to pull through the latter half of 2009 and the result is that the number of visitors to the site is at an all time low Sad Not much is happening and I've not been able to do much about it.

I also have not been able to get a real start on any new game projects this year. I'm torn between continuing working on TWTPB (I have some ideas for an expansion), Project L and some new ideas I have been experimenting with lately.

So what is my vision for 2010? What I would like to happen is to get the online community working and have some proper integration with our games. I want the homepage to feel more alive and kicking than ever! I would also like to at least start a new game project. I also have a number of improvements to the hUb backend that I would like to get on.

What will definitely happen is that we'll push our games to appear on Gamers Gate and also a port of TWTPB to XNA -> XBox is more or less done. So I hope we'll get accepted by Microsoft.

I will try to play more games 2010 Smiling

I hope your 2009 was good and that 2010 will be even better for you!

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Thx for sharing!

It's great to hear developers who dare to share both good and bad experiences. Either way it is encouraging to read articles like this.
I'm having a pre-launch with my PC game portal iGplay later this month, and I think we should talk about getting TWTPB hosted there! I focus especially on Nordic produced game for starters!
I'm looking forward to more from your side of the Öresundsbro! Talk to you later Eye-wink

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Hey JeppeKM! Yeah, 2009 was

Hey JeppeKM! Yeah, 2009 was really a yng/yang year for me... started good and ended on the bad side Sticking out tongue Well, a new year and new chances!

Getting TWTPB out on your portal sounds good, just let me know.

Cheers!

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