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I should follow some indie devs on Twitter

4 years ago583 words

I don't follow anyone on Twitter, but I should start following some other indie devs so I feel less alone in walking this path! Any suggestions?

I haven't written a personal post in almost a month! I keep thinking of things I want to write about, but lack the time or energy.

I spent a couple of hours this morning rereading some old blog posts here, seeing how far I have or haven't come. A lot of themes repeat over the months. One is wanting to become more connected to - or at least aware of - other indie devs or the general indie dev community (if there even is one), since I've been doing this in a bubble for ages. Seems I write posts about it and then nothing actually happens though. I just get distracted and forget about it until I say the same thing a few months later.

Some things do eventually end up happening though!! I talked anxiously about setting up Patreon or a Discord server, and they manifested eventually... months later. Sort of. I still need to do some stuff to finalise the Discord server before making it public. I'll get there eventually!!

One of the things I talked about but haven't done yet is basically making a kind of list of other people on a similar path to me, perhaps in their own bubbles. Indie devs working on some project for months with the hopes of eventually releasing on Steam.

I wanted to spend this weekend scouring through indie dev subreddits, making a note of people I see and what they're doing, but I got caught up making the Atonal Dreams info page I talked about in the other post, and now it's Sunday night and I'm tired, so eh... Maybe next weekend.

Something I would like to do though is start following a few indie devs on Twitter. I technically use Twitter in the sense that I tweet things every so often, but they don't exactly get much attention, and I don't follow anyone else or like or comment on their posts. I've been wanting to change that for ages, but feel more awkward about following one or two people than I do about zero, so I want to add a bunch at once.

So do you know any indie devs who are on a similar path to me who I could maybe follow? Ideally solo devs who haven't made it huge, so not people like Toby Fox who everyone's heard of. People I could feel "we're in this together!" about rather than feeling completely inferior to.

Or if you want me to follow you on Twitter, let me know, and I'll probably do that too! (What do people even post on there? Political opinions and memes? I'm not exactly interested in either of those things, so I likely wouldn't engage with posts like those.)

I don't particularly want to engage with social media, but I'm very aware that the numbers I use to gauge interest in what I'm doing (number of likes on tweets, view counts on these posts) have been dropping for a while, and I'll need for people to be aware Atonal Dreams is a thing if there's any hope of it earning enough money to pay the basic bills.

I need to look on Reddit too - as I've been saying for ages - but maybe I'll do that next weekend. For now, following a few people is a start, at least!