My name's Eric Barone, but I'm better known as ConcernedApe, the guy who made Stardew Valley. I'm an indie developer based in Seattle, Washington. Stardew Valley was recently ported to Android by The Secret Police, a UK based mobile game studio. Please feel free to ask me anything!

Edit at 11pm PST: Thanks for the questions and warm welcome, everyone. I'm signing off for now, but I'll try to answer any remaining questions tomorrow

Ugh, I am so sick of seeing the handpicked content rather than being able to sort by date released regardless of 'popularity' or whatever. Its a huge task to find something that isn't mainstream gacha or retro shovelware or $$$ oriented waifu bait.

How do you guys browse? I end up coming to places like this because it feels like I'm seeing the same shit over and over again... don't even get me started on my 'recommendations'.

So much cool stuff must just be trapped down there never to see the light of generic search inputs. I feel sorry for the devs that actually try and don't have the budget to pump their title to the top or whatever it is that gets things to the 'front page' of the play store.

I would like more options for searching, specifically ways to see older titles by date added to store. If I was dreaming i'd ask for a 'non skinner box' option too.

Seriously, I've downloaded a couple of games, and the moment I'm out of the house, and want to play a quick round of my newly - downloaded game... "game cannot connect to server". Ugh, and seriously, the games I play aren't even MMOs. Also, I try to examine the description to see if they say that the game needs an internet connection: some do, some don't. I wish Google made it mandatory for game devs to state whether the game needs a persistent connection or not.