7 Reasons Why Most Indie Game Developers Fail

It took a few years for the indie explosion to happen, but it finally happened, and games are flooding the market by the bucketful. More and more companies and solo developers are releasing quick and dirty indie games, with their main purpose being to become...
The Death of the Modern Indie Game Developer

The Death of the Modern Indie Game Developer

There’s a point in time known among the novelist branch as ‘The Death of the Author’. It goes like this. Say you finish your book. It’s 100,000+ words, has been rewritten, edited, criticized, praised and finally, after a year, approved. The...

Are "Luck" Mechanics Destroying Competitive Gaming?

Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone, a digital card-collecting-game, is one of eSport’s newest icons. However, players of the game will quickly discover that it revolves around the element of chance. At the start of every game, what you may randomly receive in...
Secrets To Getting Your Indie Game Viral

Secrets To Getting Your Indie Game Viral

After months of going unnoticed, the game Flappy Bird suddenly and quickly soared up to the number 1 rank in both the App Store and the Play Store. It was played ubiquitously, capturing the hearts of both casual and hardcore gamers. It spawned many, many, clones, and...