PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. seconds.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

The debut game Dredge from New Zealand-based indie studio Black Salt Games oozes atmosphere and manages to combine multiple genres into one haunting adventure. We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. seconds.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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 also released the demo on Steam early (after invite-only playtesting) so I can gather feedback from real players.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. What’s also worth noting is that Battle Bit Remastered is the first game released by this indie team. Community-Driven Game Development Max spoke candidly about their journey.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You do the game development and playtesting. Crowdfunding is more popular than it has ever been before, which is great because this is one of the most popular ways to produce indie board games. Of course, at the same time, indie board games are getting a lot better. This is true for solo developers and small groups.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was scary, thrilling, amazing and… we won the Dev-Play Indie Pitch! Alex and Ovi receiving the Indie Prize at Dev-Play. Meeting other indie devs is really cool. For one, we will be heading to Casual Connect in Berlin to take part in the Indie Prize. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We finally got to a point in 2014 when he said, “I think we’ve done enough, we can start playtesting it.” A lot of small indie companies only have one printing of a game, and then they start to have another print run of another game. This is just my opinion for designers and indie publishers who ALSO want to get into retail.

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Interesting Choices

OCTOBER 5, 2011

It's rather surreal to see my name in a list with a bunch of indie luminaries , but hopefully I'll be able to live up to expectations. Also wanted to give a quick update on my various boardgame designs: City Draft - This 7 Wonders inspired drafting game is consistently liked in playtests and has been improving slowly and steadily.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Test Your Game and Deploy Performing thorough playtesting is crucial in NFT game development. On the other hand, minting involves tokenizing the assets on the selected blockchain network. Use specific smart contracts or minting tools to develop the NFTs. It helps you refine the gameplay experience.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Women in Games: Celebrating Your Achievements & How to Effect Change – leaders from studios, startups and indies alike will come together to join in a discussion on the state of the games industry for women, including how to celebrate victories and create lasting affirmations to career development in the gaming industry. Learn more.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Further over to the right we’ll see the playtest buttons which allow us to play, pause or stop our game. Our NoCode game development course teaches indie game devs how to build breathtaking games from scratch. . The first thing you’ll notice is the main menus up in the upper left corner. Let’s look over to the left first.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” The indie community is amazingly helpful, but you will have to fight by yourself with every single element in your own game – and that takes time!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The above activities are intentionally planned not to fill the whole day, so that there is time to get to know each other, present one's work to other attendees, playtest games, etc. As an indie dev, he also published Aequitas Orbis in early access, a multiplayer 2D space game using Godot 2.1. Thursday, 11 October 2018.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Viewers may see this as a rough unfair way to train anyone, but in the industrial dev culture that Zak and Ryan come from, the conventional wisdom is that the only way to become a good level designer is to "go map" -- stop talking, make levels, watch the playtest go wrong, and iterate. Through all this, Tim seems to cautiously step back.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. If you're new 'round these parts, let us help you get properly acquainted. Take a look!

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2024

Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting.

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