Indie developers are sometimes accused of deliberately inflating budgets. Mike Crassweller, senior product manager at Forward Game Studios, disagrees with this. He explained why today budgets from $1 million are a reality that we have to put up with.Please, Don’t Touch Anything 3D

Indie game developers on the GameMaker Studio 2 engine have a simplified way to publish their projects. To do this, Opera launched the GXC platform. It will allow you to publish titles for free by exporting them from the engine directly to the browser.In the announcement, the company noted that this is the first step towards creating synergy between GameMaker Studio 2 and the Opera GX gaming browser.

A new tool for creating retro text quests has appeared on the web. Gruescript allows you to develop HTML5 games that can be adapted, including for mobile. The project has an open source code and you can use it for free.The developer of the project Robin Johnson (Robin Johnson) has published its beta version on itch.io . Gruescript is distributed free of charge under the MIT license.

Publisher Slitherine has launched a fund to support indie developers and a publishing label. Their common name is K—Project.

Japanese giant Sony will support indie developers during the pandemic. The corporation will create a special fund for $10 million. The funds from it will go to help independent studios that are suffering losses due to the coronavirus.

Updating the search on Steam allowed us to estimate the volume of indie content on the site. According to the “indie” tag, you can find over 40 thousand products in the store.

The Kartridge game store has entered an open beta test. The store was created specifically for indie developers.

The developer and publisher of the Syberia series has officially launched a new brand. Under the name Microïds Indie, the French company plans to launch projects of independent studios on the market.

Why indie developers should stop lowering the price tags for their games and take advantage of the experience of the creator of The Witness, – Sergey Galenkin, the author of Steam Spy and the main publisher of Epic Games in Eastern Europe, told on the pages of his English–language blog. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of the material with the kind permission of the author.

In August last year, independent developer Alexander Simakhin released the Slash Arena MMO game he made alone as a WebGL application on social networks. Today, August 3, 2017, the game was released on Steam in early access. App2Top.ru I asked Alexander about the fate of the project and whether it is now possible to create games alone and earn money from it.

The Long Dark survival simulator from the Canadian indie studio Hinterland reached 1.3 million copies sold by the official release, and the producer of the Resident Evil film franchise, Jeremy Bolt, took over its adaptation.

The developer of the MonoGame framework, on which Bastion and Axiom Verge were created, told the publication 80.lv about the capabilities of the package and work on it. We provide a translation of the material.

One of the main third-party projects based on Defold today remains the isometric cooperative shooter SMASH BASH: Date with the Desert, developed by the indie studio Rising Wave. We talked about the history of the project, engines and difficulties in developing turn-based tactics and action games with the project producer Yaroslav Kravtsov.

As part of the Casual Connect autumn session, which will be held in Tel Aviv, a showcase of indie projects will traditionally take place within the framework of the Indie Prize international scholarship program. We talked about what kind of program it is with its director, Yulia Moshkareva.

The Color Switch mobile game, originally made by two developers in a week without using code, has collected 100 million downloads in 8 months since its release.

Shovel Knight took almost two years to sell 1.2 million copies. The game developers consider this a success.

The Internet giant Google has also decided to “be on trend”. He launched a new collection of indie gaming applications in the official Android market.

Why most indie studios don’t live up to the second game, where to look for tips on promoting games on Google Play and how Apple advertises the new Apple TV.

Frogmind Games has approached the issue of retention retention in an interesting way. The studio plans to release a map editor for its Badland arcade.