Hey everyone and thanks for checking out Episode 20 of my IM Gaming podcast. Yes, the COVID-19 quarantine is on everyone's mind right now so I took the time to make a short episode on why I believe you should invest time and effort into learning to do a thing you otherwise hate doing, but still needed it in your game dev or gaming content creation venture. Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Follow the Lewis Codex Twitch stream at https://twitch.tv/LewisCodex/ Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Thanks to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder YouTube channe) Blake Binns Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Gapo Goods Online Store Dubost Nicolas Juliana Johnson Kumaran Ratnarajah Marko Oljaca Lewis Codex Twitch Stream

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IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 20 - Use the COVID-19 quarantine to learn something you hate doing

Hi everyone and thanks for checking out the 19th episode of the IM gaming podcast.Here is a step by step guide how to turn your story into a video game. First, you need to learn to program. Now, regular programing is hard but you need to learn Twine. Basically, it’s a process of multiple linking and narrative branching. It is super simple to learn.  You then need to gamify things by adding interactions. Multiple endings is the easiest way, but there are many more, like  linking to outside sources, importing graphics and so forth. Once made you need to make a profile on Itch.io where you can upload your game. It is as simple as that! Get Twine ➡️ https://twinery.org/ Upload to Itch.io ➡️ https://itch.io/ Thanks to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Gapo Goods Online Store Dubost Nicolas Juliana Johnson Kumaran Ratnarajah Marko Oljaca Lewis Codex Twitch stream

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 19 - How to turn your writing into a video game

Hey everyone, in this episode of IM Gaming podcast I'm talking about something that is slowly impacting all of us - the Coronavuris disease (COVID-19) pandemic. While most of us have questions like what is coronavirus or what are the coronavirus symptoms, including any updates and news about the virus, I believe we should all get our info from the World Health Organization. Furthermore, I believe that we should all propagate the same information on our platforms, no matter what they are. This goes not just for questions like what coronavirus is, but also anything else that WHO deems important. I believe that this is in the interest of not just ourselves but for everyone around us as well. Find all you need to know about the on the WHO's Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak ➡️ https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 Check out ➡️ Ben James - Let the Music Play (Lyric Video) https://youtu.be/sUTSSHG_Eow Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Thanks you to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Gapo Goods Online Store Dubost Nicolas Juliana Johnson Kumaran Ratnarajah

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 18 - Use your platform against COVID-19

Hey everyone, thanks for dropping by the latest IM Gaming podcast episode! For episode 17 I’m talking about the concept of feeding the beast! This a bit pompous term is actually a smart marketing principle where anyone with a product needs to provide the beast - which can be a search algorithm, audience, followers or anything else - with content and effort. The same then allows for a range of benefits to appear. The first time I heard about the idea of feeding the beast was in terms of promoting books on Amazon Kindle, but here I expand upon it further to many different domains of the creative industries. Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 A big thanks to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Pascal (Westminster Darkly) Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Gapo Goods Online Store Dubost Nicolas

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 17 - Feed the Beast!

Hey everyone, thanks for swinging by the latest IM Gaming podcast episode! For episode 16 I went all out and did entire research (with statistics and everything) to try and help indie game developers who are promoting their games on Twitter.  Twitter's official best practices guide suggests using no more than two hashtags. Reality kind of disagrees with that and I did a bit of research to showcase from actual successful tweet what is the optimal number of hashtags connected with tweets that include the #indiegame hashtag. Read my entire research in this open Google Doc ➡️ https://bit.ly/2vfVfw8 Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Thanks to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Pascal (Westminster Darkly) Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Decryptedexe Twitch stream Gapo Goods Online Store Dubost Nicolas

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 16 - How many hashtags to use in tweets about indie games?

Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning in for the new episode of my IM Gaming podcast! In the 15th rendition, I'm talking about a tweet I had recently that somehow managed to become liked and retweeted, ending up with over 540 likes and 70 or so RTs (my equivalent of a viral tweet). In it, I made a dumb joke about Deadpool and his upcoming appearance in Fortnite, but the same resonated with two opposite groups of people. Naturally, being that I am who I am, I also tried my best to use the same to my advantage. Liste to what the actual results ended up being and what did I learn from all of this. The tweet I’m talking about https://twitter.com/filmzadanas/status/1230456959176003586 Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Thanks to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Pascal (Westminster Darkly) Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games Paul Kyriazi Decryptedexe Twitch stream

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 15 - What do you get from a tweet with 530 likes and 70 RTs?

Hey everyone, thanks for swinging by the latest IM Gaming podcast episode! In this 14th episode I’m talking about treating your social media accounts as a form of savings - it might not pay off immediately, but with regular social media management (which doesn’t have to be huge), it will rarely let you down. If you love retro games, check out Nicos (https://twitter.com/norrsken76) and his Geek Lab http://lelabodugeek.blogspot.com/ Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Thanks you to my Patreon supporters: Hind Saoud (Black Crystals) Jason Reskin (Rise: The Vieneo Province) Colin Mitchell (Tek Powder) Blake Binns Pascal (Westminster Darkly) Kidney Cowboy Twitch stream Dire Boar Games

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 14 - Social Media Presence is a Savings Account

Hey everyone, thanks for swinging by the latest IM Gaming podcast episode! In this 13th rendition of the podcast, I’m talking about the problem of choosing between more exposure or a bigger profit cut when you want to sell any kind of digital content creation.  This content can be a video game, online course, digital art, ebooks or anything else. I also argue that one of these is essential for anyone who is just starting with the same process and why everyone needs to examine this dilemma carefully before deciding on a partner in this distribution domain. Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Thanks to my new Patreon supporters!  Dire Boar Games https://www.facebook.com/DireBoarGames/  Kidneycowboy https://www.twitch.tv/kidneycowboy Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 13 - More Exposure or a Bigger Profit Cut?

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my latest IM Gaming podcast episode! When you have a creative venture of any kind - content creation hub, developing game, or anything else - you will come into contact with interested individuals. Some of these will be negative and hostile. Most likely a few of them will be trolls. Instead of lashing out during online arguments, try using A.B.K - always be kind. Consider supporting me on Patreon! ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my books on Amazon ➡️ https://www.amazon.com/Ivica-Milaric/e/B016N463B6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Find me on Twitter at ➡️ https://twitter.com/filmzadanas 

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 12 - A.B.K - Always Be Kind

Hey everyone and thanks for checking out the new IM Gaming podcast episode. This time around, again, inspired by the holy Reddit and my post about my Patreon page, I talk about creating and sustaining your ventures - even micro ventures - by defining your margin of success. Hopefully, you'll be interested in this talk (as well as gaining some business motivation) and I'd love to hear from you in any case. Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out my book The Pursuit of Micro Success https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VGBNND4

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 11 - Finding your Margin of Success

Hey everyone, thanks for being on the 10th episode of my IM Gaming podcast! This time I take the opportunity to talk about a game design principle that I call the Double Twist Approach. It might be useful when it comes to defining a setting for a game, but also when you feel you're kind of stuck with all of your old ideas. I hope you'll like it and subscribe if you do! Try out the space sim Rise: The Vie-neo Province https://www.risetvp.com/Download Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 10 - The Double Twist Approach

Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Here’s an overview of a popular Reddit post I created recently and how it went through its rise to a bit of Reddit fame. I also analyze what I got from it in terms of my primary conversion, which is getting some traffic that would result in Amazon book sales. I created this post for the /r/GetMotivated/ community and it's about overcoming procrastination. I usually post things related to productivity and procrastination, while Reddit is my main source of sales on Amazon. If the post gets some traction I leave a comment with the link to my book.  This time, I made a simple text poster using Canva with a basic notion on which my book resides - using emotional awareness and acceptance to overcome procrastination. Here's how it hit 11k.  - It got to its first 100 upvotes in about 2-3 hours.   - From there, it took it about an hour to 800-900 and quickly break through the 1k mark.  - As the US audience began joining in, it exploded.  - The next several thousands of upvotes came over about 16 hours or so.  - When it reached 11k, it began slowing down, somewhere around 22 hours after posting.  - In the hours after that, it got another 900 upvotes and then died down. When I saw it's going well, I left a comment with the link and it quickly got to about 300 upvotes. So, I’m guessing I got a lot of traffic there to my page on Amazon. The results: I sold six books (four on the first day and two on the second, along with about 100 KENP pages read), so nothing to write home about. I’m guessing it’s because people on the subreddit are interested in procrastination but not focused on it enough to buy books. I also got a handful of Reddit and Twitter followers, one random direct inquiry and some unexpected YouTube views on my previous podcast episode for the sheer fact that it was the post I left before this one. Not the best results ever, but still an interesting experience. If you want to hear more details listen to them in the latest episode of my podcast. Also, if you want to support me doing things like this, consider chipping in a buck on my Patreon page.

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 9 - Crafting a 11k Upvotes Reddit Post

Hey everyone, thank you so much for checking out the new episode of my  IM Gaming podcast in which I talked about the results of going viral, or  at least the results of your content getting a lot of attention. While  most choose to focus on how to go viral or how to make a viral video for  YouTube, there is also another aspect many overlook -  what to do when  you do get popular. In this episode exam two such moments and the  different outcomes of both situations. I also talk about the set up you  should have in place before you work on how to make your content go  viral. Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out Tek Powder on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1-3XWQPcjIcEtbsFt14VQ and Twitter https://twitter.com/TekPowder My book on using psychology to stop procrastinating https://amazon.com/dp/B01CXBRSVM

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 8 - Results of Going Viral

Hi everyone and thanks for taking out the new episode of my podcast on  gaming, entrepreneurship and even a small bit of nostalgia. This time, I  talk about the need and the drive to succeed with an online venture  that can become a hard case of Dashboard Fever. I also talk about how  this fever can be broken, hopefully for good! Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast   Check out Black Crystals on its Steam Page! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1197070/Black_Crystals/   Check out my book The Pursuit of Micro Success https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VGBNND4

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 7 - Dashboard Fever

Hi everybody and thank you so much for being on my latest episode of the IM Gaming podcast! This time I will talk about content creation and why it is important to stick with it even when you feel like quitting. Starting as a content creator might be easy but staying motivated is not. The same goes for staying productive as a content creator. It doesn't matter which platform you use, because staying motivated on YouTube is just as hard as staying motivated on Twitch or Mixer. This is why I talked about the specific type of content creator mindset which can support a constant content creator motivation. This  includes a really simple mindset tip for content creators where you first create your content creation strategy and then prepare yourself for the long game of slowly building up your brand. Consider supporting me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast Check out ScoreSpace at https://twitter.com/scorespacejam Check out my book The Pursuit of Micro Success https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VGBNND4

IM Gaming Podcast - Episode 6 - Staying a Content Creator

IM Gaming is a podcast about the video game industry, entrepreneurship and gaming nostalgia. My name is Ivica and I’ve been around gaming for a long time (starting in 1990). Since then, I became a psychology grad, started working in the gaming industry as a game designer, created hundreds of gaming videos, wrote countless gaming articles, and messed around DIY business concepts. Now, I’m creating a podcast on all of those things. Hopefully, I’ll inform and entertain you through these episodes. Support IM Gaming on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/iamgamingpodcast

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