How to Publish and Sell Your Indie Game on Steam
Steam processes purchases for well over 130 million monthly active users (Wikipedia / Valve, 2023), making it the dominant marketplace…
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How to Market an Indie Game: A Marketing Playbook That Works
Valve’s publicly-released platform data shows that more than 14,000 games launched on Steam in 2023 alone, a record that keeps…
How to Fund an Indie Game: Crowdfunding, Grants, Publishers
Money decides which indie games ship and which ones quietly disappear. The scale of player-backed funding alone makes the point:…
Indie Game Development Timeline: How Long to Ship
When Eric Barone released Stardew Valley in February 2016, few players knew he had spent roughly four and a half…
How Much Does It Cost to Make an Indie Game?
A single number rarely survives contact with this question. Stardew Valley, one of the best selling indie titles of the…
How to Make an Indie Game: A Beginner’s Roadmap
The global games market was worth an estimated $187.7 billion in 2024, according to the Newzoo Global Games Market Report…
Indie Games vs AAA Games: Key Differences Explained
One title in this comparison cost roughly $265 million to build and market, according to Wikipedia’s account of Grand Theft…
What Are Indie Games? A Guide to Independent Game Development
Few stories capture the rise of independent games better than Minecraft, a project that began with one Swedish programmer and…
Best Indie Games: Hidden Gems Across All Platforms
A card game built by one anonymous developer working under the name LocalThunk did something no blockbuster managed in 2024:…
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