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Three Indie Games You Should Follow on Twitter

Posted on January 11, 2020 by travistaborek

Intro – These Indie Games do Social Media Marketing Right It’s tricky to say how I feel about social media. I feel like I don’t like it as much as maybe I should for a career marketer. On the one… Continue Reading →

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Hyper Light Drifter – Three Reasons Why You Need To Play It

Posted on December 29, 2019 by travistaborek
hyper light drifter for ios

How I Got a Hyper Light Drifter Review Code from the Publishers Ok, so first of all: BIG shout-out to Abylight Studios for the iOS version of Hyper Light Drifter which was released this year. And shout-out again for having… Continue Reading →

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Prey – Or, Three Reasons Why I Think More Action RPG’s should be more like BioShock. Or Maybe Not.

Posted on December 21, 2019 by travistaborek

Ok, so hands in the air: I know Prey isn’t really an indie game. I’m cheating. I just wanted to do a review of Prey because Extra Credits did a whole video about how great this game is. When Extra… Continue Reading →

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A Hat In Time – A Heckin’ Cute 3D Platformer

Posted on December 10, 2019 by travistaborek

Marketplace: Steam Genre: Adventure Game Studio: Gears for Breakfast Remember when you played imaginary role-playing games with your friends in the schoolyard when you were 10 years old? When every day at lunchtime, you and your buddies would head to… Continue Reading →

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My Top 3 Standout Moments in Subnautica – Why I Love This Exploration Game

Posted on November 27, 2019 by travistaborek

Genre: Exploration Game Studio: Unknown Worlds Entertainment (San Francisco) Subnautica is an exploration game where you explore an ocean on an alien planet where everything is trying to kill or eat you. It’s also the most engaging and breathtaking indie… Continue Reading →

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Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls

Posted on November 27, 2019 by travistaborek
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls presentation.

Summary One day, I got sick of working a minimum wage job in a mailroom delivering Amazon packages to tech workers and decided I’d rather be one instead. So, I shelled out $2,000 to a fancy-pants tech bootcamp in San… Continue Reading →

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Wescover – Content Internship

Posted on November 27, 2019 by travistaborek

I was a content and social media intern at Wescover, a fast-growing startup based in the Twitter building in San Francisco. It was my first formal role as a marketer. Shortly after I graduated from General Assembly, I realized that… Continue Reading →

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TiVo – SEO Analyst

Posted on November 15, 2019 by travistaborek
Me, sitting in a chair and playing a game, as I do.

I was an SEO Analyst at TiVo between May and August of 2019. When my internship at Wescover was drawing to a close, I realized “oh snap, I need a job now!” As luck would have it, just a couple… Continue Reading →

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