[Ep590] Hackers, Piracy, and Clones - How Should Indie Game Devs React?
In episode 590 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers work through every flavor of people messing with your game, from hackers and expl...
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Coffee with Butterscotch: A Game Dev Comedy Podcast
Coffee with Butterscotch is the hilarity-filled official podcast of award-winning video game studio Butterscotch Shenanigans. Tune in every week to learn how video games are made and sold, o...
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20 of 579 episodes[Ep589] The One Skill Holding Back Indie Game Devs
In episode 589 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers make the case that understanding your own workflow might be the most underrated s...
[Ep588] Can One Screenshot Boost Your Steam Sales by 25%?
In episode 588 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers get into the weeds on Steam store page optimization and what the data from How Ma...
[Ep587] Are we in an Indie Golden Age?
In episode 587 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers point out that right now might actually be the best time to be an indie developer...
[Ep586] How Should Indie Devs Think about Post-Launch Updates?
In episode 586 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers discuss the current state of game sales, post-launch support strategies, and how...
[Ep585] How Should Indie Devs React to Negative Steam Reviews?
In episode 585 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers dig into the post-launch data for How Many Dudes, unpacking what Steam review sco...
[Ep584] 100,000 Steam Sales in 2 Days - Our Biggest Indie Game Launch Ever
In episode 584 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers are fresh off the biggest launch in Butterscotch history, and they're breaking do...
[Ep583] The Day Before Launch: Scenario Planning for Indie Game Devs
In episode 583 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers are one day out from the How Many Dudes launch and walking through everything sti...
[Ep582] How to Design a Game That Markets Itself
In episode 582 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers share what they've learned about designing games that are easy to talk about befo...
[Ep581] 1 Year of Indie Game Dev in 1 Hour
In episode 581 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers recap the full year-long journey of How Many Dudes. From a GMTK game jam entry to...
#[Ep580] Anatomy of a Steam Game Launch - Indie Devs Reveal Their Launch Strategy
In episode 580 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers pull back the curtain on exactly how they're launching How Many Dudes, covering e...
[Ep579] Xbox, PS5, Steam Machine, & GTA6 - are they charging too much?
In episode 579 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers dig into the pricing on Valve's new Steam Machine and how much of today's hardwar...
[Ep578] Has AI Ruined Steam Nextfest?
In episode 578 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers discuss whether Steam Next Fest is becoming a victim of its own success, as AI-ge...
#[Ep577] Indie Devs React to Steam's New Personal Calendar
In episode 577 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers dig into Steam's new personalized calendar feature and what it means for how indi...
[Ep576] How Many Dudes Beta Begins, and AI Just Got Dumber
In episode 576 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers kick off the closed beta for How Many Dudes and dig into what they're actually tr...
#[Ep575] Indie Devs Yell At Cloud
In episode 575 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers are 60 days from launching How Many Dudes and find themselves juggling the final...
[Ep574] Game Devs Discuss Far Far West
In episode 574 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers check in on the new How Many Dudes box art with some real click-through numbers,...
[Ep573] How does promo art help sell your game?
In episode 573 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers walk through the evolution of the How Many Dudes box art and what YouTube thumbna...
[Ep572] Indie Devs Discuss Boss Fight Design
In episode 572 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers check in on their Steam tag experiments before diving into the tricky problem of...
[Ep571] Is Steam propping up mobile?
In episode 571 of 'Coffee with Butterscotch,' the brothers dig into whether Steam has quietly become the discovery engine that keeps mobile...