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Brok the InvestiGator is the first Punch&Click game “Indies need to be innovative”

PreMortem.Games

When he left his day job in 2014 to become a full-time indie developer, he realised he had to come up with something special to stand out from the crowd. In 2014 I decided to leave my (unrelated) day job after saving up money for years in order to go ‘full indie’. It’s hard to get noticed as an indie dev.

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The First Tree Analysis – An Indie Game Marketing, Harvest Island Struggle

Yobob Games

Harvest Island Indie Game Marketing Struggle. Indie Game Analysis. A few months back, I was looking at successful games to help me attract a large fanbase: graveyard keeper, stardew valley, and animal crossing. ” There are two games that caught my attention as an indie developer. Indie Marketing on Steam.

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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism

PreMortem.Games

They have to survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance the technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve their civilization. There are plenty of indie developers that say this and it’s possibly the most crucial part of game design and development.

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Harvest Island Demo & The Behind The Scenes Trailer

Yobob Games

Harvest Island Demo. Harvest Island Demo. With the release of the new trailer, I decided to release the demo version of the game. I wanted the game to be released late December or early January, but I’ve experienced delays and to make up for my lack of promise, I decided to put out a demo. Harvest Island Demo.

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Generative AI Sparks Life into Virtual Characters with NVIDIA ACE for Games

Nvidia

The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use NVIDIA ACE for Games to build and deploy customized speech, conversation, and animation AI models in software and games.

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Solo dev Rohan Nowell of Doggy Don’t Care “Just start building and ideas will come” 

PreMortem.Games

I didn’t take the thought seriously until I watched Indie Game The Movie and even then it was another few years before I released my first game, Swoopy Boi. I like variety in my work (art, coding, animation, marketing); it keeps things interesting and I also love seeing my own progress over the weeks, months and years.”

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God Statues In Harvest Island

Yobob Games

There are a lot of items that you can collect in Harvest Island and once you offer them to the gods, you’ll receive bless which is used to befriend animals. Bless is needed to befriend wild animals. For one, it allows you to obtain bless which is used to befriend animals and wild animals. Bless and how it's used.