Like last year, slappydavis came to town and helped out in the booth, and was awesome. Of course, they only wanted to train adults as soon as another kid came up in line, they scrambled to take a break, because bossing adults around the map is fine, but training another kid? NO WAY TOO WEIRD! We also had child labor! Day of the Devs was all-ages this year, so my daughter and a friend came and helped out with training people to play. We sold copies of the game again with the awesome code cards, and did pretty well. Which reminds me, I need to write up the full report on the sales at PAX and mix in DotD as well. I recently started doing a weekly SpyParty stream on Twitch, and I’ve decided to call it Tuesdays at Ten on Twitch, because, well, it’s on Tuesdays at 10am US Pacific time on the SpyParty Twitch Channel, funny that! I will usually tweet about it, or you can subscribe to the channel for notifications whenever I stream, or check out the SpyParty Streams Notifier for all related streams. It’s a mix of playtesting, development, and debugging broken builds that were supposed to “just work”. Here’s the one from today: 1 Today I played varanas, and then moons for his 1k birthday game. I had just released build v.0 earlier this morning, which had a ton of optimizations for performance on the new artwork, and it was so nice to stream at a good framerate again! I’ll do a detailed blog post about the optimizations soon. The TTT stream is promoted to the Twitch front page when there aren’t other things on their calendar, so it occasionally filled with way more people than usual for my streams.

I’ve written before about how important a healthy community is for SpyParty, and the Twitch chat is no different. I can’t play or develop and watch the chat very easily, so the community really comes together and helps out, especially when we get a bunch of new curious people in the chat asking questions. Of course, being the internet, there are always occasional trolls, but they’re not very common, and our helpful mods deal with them fairly and quickly.

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