🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter 21 - Shadow Jumper SCHIM, Steam Technofeudalism, Palword Dead Game Good?
# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by a Part Time Indie Game Dev
Greetings on this newsletter sharing 3 things I came across this week.
Will be trying to share more indie games in the game news section.
🎮 Game News
Shadow Jumper Platformer SCHIM
Shadow Jumper a unique game with a shadow mechanic where you jump between people’s shadow. Happen to see on X via Best Indie Games.
Game looks like a play of “shadow” like characters in the environment and some games that come to mind are Limbo and Rain (PS4).
https://x.com/clemmygames/status/1819896247760925087
Link:
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519710/SCHiM/
📱Social Post
Palworld is Dead and that is Good
I do think that games like Helldivers and Live services can’t last forever. This video from Going Indie gives their take why maybe having games last a season is good instead of pushing gamers to continue to play it and keep player counts high, so other games can take its place.
Link to Steam Games Mentioned
Palworld:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492120/Summit/
Article PC Gamer:
🔎 Interesting Finds
Technofeudalism Steam Valve and TF 2 Hats shaped our economy - Yanis Varoufakis
Valve and Steam are the new TechnoFeudalism Overlords presiding over PC Gamers and Developers. In this article from Aftermath they interview Yanis Varoufakis about how we are now in a new age post capitalism and it looks like valve and steam may have paved the way for the rise of these digital Platforms which some companies like Epic argue they take too much from devs
It’s a complex subject but I feel Just looking at Steam we are all beholden to the platform and they just rent seek (taking a cut from us)
It’s a fascinating read the book which I managed to start reading
Read here on Amazon Kindle
Links
https://aftermath.site/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-valve-steam-interview
I love the take that some games should come as a short burst of content. I think it would be cool to see some shorter experiences with love service games.