{"id":66202,"date":"2018-11-30T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/331910"},"modified":"2018-11-30T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:47:00","slug":"stardew-valley-dev-announces-decision-to-self-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/stardew-valley-dev-announces-decision-to-self-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley dev announces decision to self-publish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting December 14,\u00a0<em>Stardew\u00a0Valley<\/em>\u00a0developer Eric Barone (known as ConcernedApe) will be\u00a0self-publishing the indie title\u00a0on PC, Xbo, PS4, and PS Vita. Chucklefish\u00a0remains\u00a0as publisher on\u00a0Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/stardewvalley.net\/move-to-self-publishing-starting-december-14th\/\">developer blog,<\/a>\u00a0Barone notes the transition to self-publishing\u00a0<em>Stardew\u00a0Valley\u00a0<\/em>as an organic one, writing how he&#8217;s ready to move forward on his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think self-publishing is the end-goal of most indie developers, and I\u2019m happy to be in a place where that\u2019s possible!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first released <em>Stardew Valley<\/em>, I was a complete novice to the video game industry,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Chucklefish, as my publisher, oversaw the distribution, console ports and translations of the game. They set up the official wiki and helped me redesign the website, to great effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chucklefish\u00a0will stay on as publisher for the Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms to\u00a0oversee the\u00a0upcoming Switch multiplayer update and new Android version of\u00a0<em>Stardew\u00a0Valley.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting December 14,\u00a0Stardew\u00a0Valley\u00a0developer Eric Barone (known as ConcernedApe) will be\u00a0self-publishing the indie title\u00a0on PC, Xbo, PS4, and PS Vita. Chucklefish\u00a0remains\u00a0as publisher on\u00a0Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms. As detailed in a developer blog,\u00a0Barone notes the transition to self-publishing\u00a0Stardew\u00a0Valley\u00a0as an organic one, writing how he&#8217;s ready to move forward on his own. &#8220;I think self-publishing is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}