Mana Games

[tmihai20]

I read your post about the burnout. I don't have much to say except take care of yourself too. It does not matter if you miss the October deadline. Bigger companies delayed games a lot more. I am not sure how difficult it is to setup a beta. I would love to help in that case.

[manutoo]

tmihai20,
thanks.
I hope I won't need to do a beta test for the PlayStation. For the Xbox, it was alright without one and so far I didn't see anything more complicated on the PlayStation. Plus Sony does some basic checking, so hopefully everything will go smoothly enough.

[Manu]

Manu I think you lost tons of sale because no marketing skill and marketing team and I think you watch too much olympic games in paris

[manutoo]

Manu,
a marketing team would cost me more money than it'd bring me. I tried to hire one for Dungeon Guardians and the quotes were insane and totally out of reach for a small Indie like myself.
I did not watch the Olympic games except for 2 games of Djokovic / Alcaraz...

[Steph]

Hi manu 2 question:

1. On Playsttation will you offer keyboard support?
2. 'I have my 2 sons at home most of the time, which means that most of the time they run, scream, hurt themselves or hurt each other, and ask me 1 thousand questions per hour.'
A genuine question: why did you make kids? Like it's taking money it's screaming and because of them we have to wait more so maybe you should ban these troll kids or release an update patch for them you know like you should rewrite their code maybe??

[manutoo]

Steph,
1) I guess it should work ; at least the keyboard is working on my DevKit
2) Because there's only 1 thing worse than having kids : it's not having kids... (at least for me )

[yd82]

Hey Manu,

Just wanted to say thank you for doing all the hard work for this community. I am a PS player so I'm very looking forward to playing TE4 for the first time later this year.

I appreciate you sharing your personal story - as a young parent of 2 kids, i can certainly relate to what you shared. The constant distraction and fatigue caused by child caring. but that is good parenting, only good parents get really exhausted because we want to do well.

Thanks again and wish you the best!

[manutoo]

yd82,
thanks, and that's true, I care a lot about my kids..! (maybe even a tad too much sometimes )

[polakis]

Manu i have to tell you that top spin and tiebreak games have alot of problems, people moaning in discord and instagram. Many people advertise you and say tennis elbow 4 is much better. So many people read it and may help you buying your game this period.

[KiraNerys]

Just wanted to say thank you for all the effort you've put in to this game and continue to put into it.

[Steph]

Manu do u plan to teach your kids coding so that they can update the game once you get too old??

[manutoo]

polakis,
yup, the TE4 sale volume on PC is the best one since 2021, thanks to these 2 games..!
TS5's SubReddit gave me the occasion to answer many questions from tennis gamers about TE4.

KiraNerys,
you're very welcome & thanks.

Steph,
That'd be neat, but I'm planning to let my kids live their lives & own passions.

[RastkoR]

Hi man, as a PS5 user im literally countinf down the days this game releases for my console, I installed both TB and TS25 and even though i kinda liked TB I cant wait to try TE4 on my PS5 so just to let you know that some of us are dying for that port to come!

[manutoo]

RastkoR,
thanks..!

[tmihai20]

I am now seeing that you are using a PS4 devkit for the PS version. Will it work on PS5 day one?