10 Simple Mistakes Indie Developers Should Avoid
You’ve called up your programmer buddy, your artist cousin, your uncle who makes chiptunes in his attic, and your neighbor […]
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Have Indie Games Become Completely Worthless?
It seems as though people are willing to pay less and less these days for indie games. Studios that slave
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3 Ways To Run Your Game Dev Career Into The Ground
Are you considering starting your own game development studio? You might want to avoid the most common mistakes. There are
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How To Quit Your Day Job And Make Video Games
Create an amazing game that people love. Sell a few hundred thousand copies. Everybody wins. Or at least that’s how
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5 Useful Business Tips For Fledgling Game Developers
1. KNOW YOUR NUMBERS To make a living from indie games, you will have to start running your own business. There
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How To Make $10,000 USD A Day With Your Indie Game
There is a lot of information out there on how to make it in the video game industry, but the
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4 Reasons To Fall In Love With Indie Game Development
1. EXPERIMENTING WITH GRAPHICS While it may get a bit wearisome to see yet another indie showing its retro-chic by using 8-bit
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How To Get Your Indie Game On The Steam Platform
Let’s face it, Steam’s reach is beyond compare. The platform boasts millions of active players, and if you happen to
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Why Your Brilliant Game Idea Is Absolutely Worthless
“Ideas represent one tiny percentage of your game. It’s not the core. It’s only a spark—a source of motivation to
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9 Effective Ways To Get Your Indie Game Noticed
Getting your indie game project noticed can be difficult. There is a lot that you need to consider. Which channels should
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3 Things Marketing My Indie Game Taught Me
I’m Raghav, CMO at Black Shell Media LLC, and marketing lead at Black Shell Games. I’ve had the pleasure of
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4 Ways To Take Advantage Of Indie Game Publishers
“Making video games and getting them to hundreds or thousands or millions of people is hard.” -Daniel Jacobson, creator of
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The Most Valuable Game Development Tool Ever
I have a question for you: How many different services do you use while working on a game development project?
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6 Useful Tips To Help You Ship Your Indie Game
There is a widespread problem with indie developers embarking alone onto projects that have massive scope without having the means
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How To Get Your Press Emails Noticed By Gaming Sites
I recently brainstormed with a friend of mine who runs a video game news site. We combined our respective expertise
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5 Game Development Business Tools Worth Investing In
Free tools are awesome (and we will talk about those too!) But sometimes when working on your game you’ll need to
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Release A Game
Many game developers dream of creating a massive sandbox game in the vein of Grand Theft Auto V, World of
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5 Reasons Why Game Developers Should Embrace Competition
A common tip for most aspiring entrepreneurs is to know your competition and stay one step ahead of them. It’s
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The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Game Developers
Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” With that in
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5 Motivational Truths Every Game Developer Must Know
You’re tired and miserable. You’ve stayed up until 5AM trying to figure out why your build keeps crashing. The last