Next Thursday, July 25, the organizers of the GTP Indie Cup Summer‘19 contest will stop accepting games from independent developers.

For novice developers, there are books about the features of indie game development, as well as the creation and development of their own studio. A selection of such useful publications was published by the portal 80lvl. And App2Top — translated it.

Epic Games and Sold Out have developed a support program for indie studios. The initiative is called The Unreal Box Offer.

Xsolla has introduced the Xsolla Funding Club investment platform. Its goal is to establish a connection between investors and talented indie developers.

Mike Rose, the head of No More Robots, told about where to look for an audience for developers of a new indie game.

In recent years, the dynamics of game sales has changed significantly. Indie developer Jason Rohrer came to this conclusion by comparing the data on release sales of his projects.

No sooner had the Epic Games Store launched than several publishers and developers turned away from Valve. They postpone their releases on Steam or leave the site altogether.

Recently, Valve has managed to annoy a lot of indie developers. Now they are massively expressing their claims to the company and its Steam store on social networks. App2Top translated a selection of opinions of independent studios compiled by the publication Gamesindustry.biz .

Indie developers complain about the decline in sales of their games on Steam. The reason is a sharp drop in traffic.

Indie studio Failbetter Games, which created the Fallen London and Sunless Sea projects, came up with a flash mob #loveindies with an appeal to support independent developers. During the week of the flash mob, the guys received 95 new reviews for their games.

Independent games have become an integral part of the global gaming industry and have ceased to be its antipode, says Rami Ismail, indie developer and co-founder of Vlambeer Studio. He stated this at The Big Indie Fest @ReVersed gaming conference, held in Austria on July 5-8.

The CEO of the independent Canadian studio Red Barrels Philippe Morine (Phillippe Morine) spoke about the work on the horror series Outlast. According to him, one of the reasons for the success of the franchise was the distribution of the first part of the game through a premium PlayStation Plus subscription.

Indie studio Yacht Club Games offered its own version of the fight against the indie apocalypse. She raised the price tag for her game on all platforms, and at the same time went to the Nintendo Switch. Thanks to this, the company earned a record amount for Shovel Knight in 2017 in the entire history of its sales.

The creator of the adventure game Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (WTWTLW), Johnnemann Nordhagen, admitted that he earned $ 0 on the game. Nordhagen invested more than $140 thousand of personal funds in his work and spent 4 years on it.

The executive producer of the new role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance (KCD) Martin Klima (Martin Klíma) told why he does not consider his work to be part of the echelon of AAA titles. According to Klima, it’s all about its complexity.

Streaming platform Twitch has launched Indie Amplifire — a program to promote the popularity of games from independent developers. As part of the program, Twitch promised to divide $ 175 thousand between the authors of the three best indie titles that users of the service will choose by voting.

On January 25, independent developer Matt Thorson released a new Celeste platformer project. In 2 weeks, the Nintendo Switch version of the game has overtaken its PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions in sales.

Representatives of several independent gaming companies and the Australian publisher Surprise Attack Games founded The Treasure Hunters FanClub (THFC) foundation to find, finance and promote promising indie studios.

Google has opened the acceptance of works for the competition for developers of Android games Google Play Indie Games Contest. This year, for the first time, game creators from Russia and 27 other European countries will be able to participate in it.