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Antoine Mayerowitz

@antoine.mayerowitz.io
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Half of @hushcrasher.bsky.social - PhD in economics / data science / generative art. Paris. mayerowitz.io

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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 09/09/2026
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Julie Belzanne @juliebelzanne.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’ll say something you’re not used to hear: It does NOT cost more to make games today. We just make bigger ones. Hear me out. I'm not gonna pretend budgets haven't risen, of course they have. We talked about it in our previous article (newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/did-games-...). 1/4
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 14/04/2026
We're back from the dead! But keep calm, the best is yet to come 🔥
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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna start calling game teams "kei" and "midi" and not "iii" or "indie" and you're gonna hate it but I'm right to do it, until we have better terms, sorry bro, this is not discourse, this is praxis newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/taxonomy-o...
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By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.
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Julie Belzanne @juliebelzanne.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Devs/publishers, stop trusting Steam recommendations to set your game regional prices. They haven't been updated since 2022. And it’s actively COSTING you sales. Good news is, we fixed it! We detail how in this article: open.substack.com/pub/hushcras...
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 04/11/2025
New piece hushcrasher.substack.com/p/how-much-d...
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How much does it cost to make a video game?
We built a model to estimate the budget of 100,000 games. Here's what we found.
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 18/09/2025
Why "Kei" you may ask? The term sparked a long debate. "Mini" felt misleading, potentially confused with minigames, and carried a "lesser value" connotation. Same for "Tiny", "Micro", and "A-". "Solo" didn't fit 2-3 person teams. Plus, we're two weebs ⛩️
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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames).

The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 10/09/2025
People talk about "indie" games, AA, AAA. But no one agrees on what those really mean. With @juliebelzanne.bsky.social we went down the rabbit hole and used a data-driven approach to provide a definitive answer. hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
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By the way, what are AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...
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Hushcrasher @hushcrasher.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Do you (really) know what a AA game is? Or even what an indie game is? We do, now 👉 open.substack.com/pub/hushcras... It's free to subscribe! It's a great way to show your support 🫶 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamedevs #videogames #indiedev #indiegame #IndieGameDev #datasciencetalk #clustering
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 02/07/2025
Bayesian statistics is so much more popular on social media. I guess frequentists are too busy having a job 🤷
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Julie Belzanne @juliebelzanne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Big streamers? Hit or miss. Smaller streamers? Hit. Video games industry is so so competitive (+40 every day) Yet, Twitch is still untapped: high potential ROI & low marketing cost The era of micro streamers is upon us 💎 www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/th... #indiedev #twitchmarketing #gamedev
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How Balatro publisher Playstack delivered a marketing masterclass
A carefully curated 'Wheel of Attention' became Balatro's best friend.
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 25/03/2025
Vibe traveling
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 25/03/2025
The 0 penny tech stack for broken indie hackers 🧵👇
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 22/03/2025
Drove me crazy for 3 hours
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory
Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 20/11/2024
wip - ᑕᜪ೭ᜢ⍁⸦ߗ "Cylindrical Simplex" #generativeart
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 15/11/2024
With Bluesky trending again, it feels like the perfect time to repost my course on Pareto optimality #econSky
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 14/11/2024
I won’t dive into the Python vs R debate. But can we all agree that R {ggplot2} is far superior for plots?
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 25/10/2024
31 years old and I finally made my first accepted pull request for a popular library ✌️
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 05/04/2024
New article 👇
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Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you ...
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 30/10/2023
Millenials complaining they don't find "third places": do you know about LAUNDROMAT ? - Heated - No entry fees - Seats - Open 7/7
A laundromat too cozy to be true
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 19/10/2023
Being able to use your own domain name to prove your identity is a neat trick. Congrats @bsky.app
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Antoine Mayerowitz @antoine.mayerowitz.io · 11/08/2023
Hello bluesky
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