My team made Faerie Solitaire. Ask me almost anything!

It was released on other portals almost a year before it was made available on Steam. I've played countless hours during development but none of that is tracked. Played some when it went live just to make sure everything was working. :)

His team made the game, of course he can get 100% achievements in 30 minutes!

C'est la vie.

11/12

=( I dont win

But i buyed the game =D
And worth
Then ill make a giveaway =D

All eggs spawn with equal chance under any stack. There are no limits to the number of eggs which can spawn in a layout.

The game used to have limits and it made finding eggs much rarer, but they were removed and the drop chances were raised - twice. Next game has an end game mechanic which makes it much easier to find the rest of the collectibles once the main adventure mode has been completed. We intend for players to be able to complete everything in single playthrough but if not then we'll make it possible for them to up the drop chance after completing the game once.

lol and what with that =P

i have 1220 hours and more of other games...

someone said stalker? =D

I was seriously addicted to this game. Then I moved and now have a crappy Internet which makes it impossible to have a good ping. I hope to move again next month to a place with a better connection.

But... yeah... for a while TF2 was the only game I played. It was my go to game. I played nothing else. Probably my favorite game.

Are you secretly begging? =P

You'll be contacted when a build is ready. If you posted on that announcement you will be contacted!

Such is life.

Not winning 100 copies giveaway was trigger for me to buy this game ;)

9 months of solid work. I've not stopped working since it was released. If anything I'm more productive than ever.

All of the art but the cover art was by me. I usually hire someone better than myself to do the cover art because I believe it matters a lot in getting people to try a game, but I always give people a strong direction for exactly what I want. Otherwise 99% of all other art in my games are by me.

With art the best you can do is practice and stay inspired. You will get better. Don't draw the same things over and over, and don't draw or paint mindlessly. Always try to be learning when you make art.

Progress on those icons I posted above for Faerie Alchemy: http://i.imgur.com/treHv.png

My homepage right now is http://cghub.com/ I go there every day and look at a few things to stay inspired. With art it's a REALLY good idea to study other artists. It's a good idea to try and reproduce paintings by artists you admire so that you can understand why and how they made their painting. This won't make your work unoriginal so don't worry about that. Some people get the idea that they need to isolate themselves otherwise they will look like copycats, but I think the best artists work from the shoulders of the giants in the past and that is why they are great.

Get "The Perfect Bait" http://www.schoolism.com/quickies.php
Also get James Gurney's book Color and Light

There are a lot of great art books but those two books are two of my favorites.

I have never taken an art class nor design class. I have learned all that I know form self study, and I believe anyone can. The best way to learn is to make mistakes.

I'm still learning and getting better every day. :) One thing I'm missing is more friends who do art. I'm kind of a loner, because of where I live, but with with friends who are just as passionate about art as you you can teach each other and share. If you have any drawing events where people just hang out and draw together go to them!

Just wait until FS2. 10X the content. :)

I am very glad you enjoyed it. One of the next solitaire games (other than FS2) we'll be releasing will hopefully be more Steam friendly. I'll just say its name, I guess, since some information about it was posted by accident (leaked) on another site. This next game is called Nightmare Solitaire and you can look forward to it next Halloween or sooner. WIP preview pic: http://i.imgur.com/s4Gle.jpg At least with this game people will only care that you're playing solitaire. :) There's nothing on our site yet about this game but now that I've posted this I'll try to put other preview stuff up about the game soon. Music track: http://soundcloud.com/jtolbert2000/nightmare-solitaire-theme

Thank you for your support! I love what you did!

Me too!

me too (pc, ios)

Yes, and anyone in the SubsoapBeta Steam group will be able to be involved with game testing.

I made a thread on Reddit where I talked about this. Read the posts of interest.

tl;dr

A developer can convert pirates to customers by giving customers the best service possible. Instead of wasting time fighting pirates, spend time and money on making customers extra happy. Do not do anti-customer things such as DRM, unless it is necessary to keep a service reliable for paying customers. Like the DRM with Steam isn't to keep pirates from ever playing the games so much as it is to make it less convenient for people to abuse the service (at least in my view - any and all game ever made are on the pirate sites).

That is the best way to enjoy games. I hope it remains enjoyable. :)

1. There is just me and another two guys. I hire our work such as music or translation to other independent people.

2. Yes, the list is long. Coming up next is Faerie Alchemy. This is all I want to get done next year for sure:

FS Mac/Linux - Already 99% ready to go

FS Localizations (D,F,S) - Already 99% ready to go

FS2 + Locals

FSD + Locals

NS + Locals

FA 1.5 + Locals

BD

LSD

FW + 90 Book Apps (DE, LH, GC)

3 GH Books

I'll be very, very busy as you can imagine.

Are your goals to just be a good and fast coder or to learn game design too?

Either case... make as many small games as you can. Also, use Monkey: http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/

There are a lot of features which were either cut or not fleshed out as much as planned. Pets were originally going to be more involved, but making sure it was fun was super hard to figure out at the time. What they are now I think is still pretty interesting even if they don't do anything. Faerie Alchemy will have pets too and they will actually be useful - more games in the future like FS2 have more interesting mechanics too.

I am a big RPG/fantasy fan. I will for sure be incorporating more RPG elements into my future games. I have some ideas which I think will turn out really well! :)

Here is a screenshot of what could have been with the pets: pic

And this was like the 3rd iteration of the idea - the previous ones were more complex. Iteration was important with FS as we tried to focus on the most fun aspect of the game.

Here is some test work I did. It can give you an idea of what possibly could have been: pic

But again I wasn't exactly sure how to make it fun and doing all of that extra work at the time just did not make sense.

Using my knowledge gained from FS and some other projects Faerie Alchemy's pet system and related meta games will be very interesting. :)

Thanks for your support! :)

Hope you have enjoyed the game. :)

The list is super long. I have many good ideas which I probably will pass up on making.

The games which won't run have modern dependencies. The modern dependencies make game development in some ways much easier than it was years ago but the modern dependencies also add to the system requirements even if the nature of the game would not require more advanced hardware by looks alone. But my system doesn't meet minimum requirements that's the problem.

I've been involved in the making of many games, and many of our future games are not solitaire. Faerie Solitaire is what I am best known for because it is genuinely awesome. I come back to it every now and then and play some and I'm amazed I even made it... Have you tried it yet?

Here's a top down shooter project I was working on for a while: click

There are too many games I want to make. I try hard to always finish what I start now.

Learned it all from self study, practicing a lot, and making lots of mistakes. Many people don't share their progress, or just no one cares. So when they release something amazing it's pretty interesting. Really though each game has a long history where that developer probably made a ton of mistakes and learned very hard lessons.

I earned my highschool diploma and associate of the arts degrees with honors when I was 18 (23 now). I have no other college experience - I stopped because I knew I wanted to work for myself and anything I wanted to learn I could do so by myself. I believe that no one needs permission to be great, and going to get a degree is asking for permission. Some people say they are jealous that I have work - they wish they could find a job too - but all of the work I do is invented by myself. I'm not waiting for someone to tell me what to do.