Camila Gormaz shares her experiences of planning, designing and developing her game, Long Gone Days, with some great tips and advice if you’re starting out on your own indie game. … Continue readingEarly Dev Notes: Long Gone Days
Many thanks to Tomer Barkan for sharing his article about the costs of being an indie dev, and experiences from the release of Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. In a few … Continue readingJudging Judgment: Analyzing Early Access Finances of Our First Indie Game
Many thanks to thatgamecompany for letting us share this Q&A with Community Developer, Robert Hornbek! Q: Which games inspired you to start making games? Robert: The first video game we … Continue readingQ&A with thatgamecompany Community Developer, Robert Hornbek
Many thanks to Camila Gormaz for sharing this article with us on her experiences with releasing the demo of Long Gone Days. Two years ago I published an article where … Continue readingDev Notes: Releasing the Demo of Long Gone Days
Jake Sones shares his experience on taking the plunge and going it alone with his indie game Zombie Match Defense. First, a little backstory. I’ve been a professional game designer … Continue readingThe Story of a Decent Game Failing
Many thanks to Armaan Sandhu for sharing his inspiring experiences on taking the leap from the safety of full time work, to the uncertainties, hardships, but ultimate moments of euphoria … Continue reading6 Months Ago I Quit My Job to Make a Game. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
Who am I? I’m Nicholas DiMucci. I work as a software engineer for a large company during the day and for the past three years or so, I worked on … Continue readingDemons with Shotguns Postmortem
Monty Sharma, veteran games industry executive and start-up advisor talks to us about the most important things developers should be doing when making a mobile game to give it the … Continue readingMaking a Mobile Game? Here Are the Things You Should Focus On
Immersive monochrome puzzler Starman: Tale of Light was released on iOS in November by two brothers, Sergio and Jacobo Abril, and was soon after featured by Apple, no doubt for … Continue readingA Q&A with nada studio on the Making of Starman: Tale of Light
On 28th November Greenheart Games released Game Dev Tycoon on iOS. Founder Patrick Klug has kindly allowed us to share their very open behind the scenes article on downloads, sales … Continue readingGame Dev Tycoon iOS Release Report
Ryan Cash & Eli Cymet from Snowman have kindly allowed us to share highlights from episode three of their podcast Art & Craft in which they interview Luke Whittaker, co-founder … Continue readingAn Interview With Luke Whittaker, Co-Founder of State of Play
Thanks to Joseph Borghetti & Reilly Stroope for letting us share their story. The remote working indie dev/design duo had never made a game before and discuss their unusual launch … Continue readingWarbits Post Mortem
Welcome to the Meganoid(2017) post-mortem, as promised a few weeks ago, this post-mortem goes into the details on the Meganoid figures and stats. Without context the stats are pretty much … Continue readingPost Mortem on Meganoid 2017