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Today on DejaVue, Alex and Michael are joined by Game and Web Developer Eduard But, who created Geotastic - a Vue-based browser game revolving around geographical knowledge and uses Googles Maps and Streetview API! Starting with Edu’s background in programming and web development and initial experiences with , we dive deep into how it happened he got into Game Development, which multiplayer game he built first and *why* and eventually talk about Geotastic. With more than 1.5 Million registered users, Edu reveals details about the financial model, how he keeps things up and running, challenges while maintaining and which new game mode will come to Geotastic soon! Tune in to hear all of the above and more. Enjoy the episode! --- Our Guest * Eduard But * Web - * Geotastic - * Twitch - -- Your Hosts * Michael Thiessen * Twitter - * Web - * Alexander Lichter * YouTube - @TheAlexLichter * Twitter - * Web - -- Chapter marks: 00:00:00 Getting started and Introducing our Guest 00:01:31 How did you got into Programming and Web Development? 00:03:55 Did you like being responsible for the “Full Stack“? 00:05:46 After working at a Media Agency 00:07:55 First Experience with 00:11:55 Creating the first browser-based Game 00:16:54 Learnings from building a Multiplayer Game 00:19:20 Starting Geotastic 00:21:20 What type of Game is Geotastic? 00:24:22 Deciding against a Subscription Model 00:28:03 Differences between Geotastic and GeoGuessr 00:30:53 Embracing the Community 00:32:49 How did you use to build the Game? 00:35:45 Technical Challenges while maintaining Geotastic 00:41:36 Taking a look at the back-end 00:43:38 Daily Players and Expenses 00:48:36 “Just do it“ mentality 00:51:27 People asked for Ads 😲 00:53:39 When will Geotastic Ranked come? 00:57:21 *SPOILER* - A new game mode 00:59:28 Wrapping up -- Links and Resources ▶ Edu’s first Multiplayer Browser Game - Pictionary ▶ Edu’s first Game played by @ROCKETBEANSTV (Video in German) ▶ Geotastic (the Game!) https:/ ▶ Announcement of Geotastic on RocketBeans (in German) ▶ Geotastic Discord ▶ Geotastic Instagram ▶ Pinia ▶ Vuetify -- Follow DejaVue on ▶ The Web: ▶ Twitter: ▶ Apple Podcast: ▶ YouTube: @DejaVueFm ▶ Spotify: ▶ Deezer: ▶ Amazon Music: ▶ Pocket Casts:
