Mike Rose, head of the indie publisher No More Robots, spoke about the principles of development planning. These tips can be useful for aspiring indie studios who have yet to release their first game. Rose gave several formulas for calculating the budget and explained why long-term development risks not paying off.

A few years ago, the indie apocalypse almost turned Steam into a “garbage dump”. Valve managed to defeat the invasion of low-quality games, while continuing to let everyone into its store. However, due to the new Steam algorithms, small titles actually have no place left on the site. Marketing consultant Chris Zukowski told about this problem in his material for the website How To Market A Game.

The Reddit community decided to help indie developers get unbiased reviews of their games. For these purposes, the Destroy My Game subreddit appeared on the site (Destroy my Game), whose users should point out the pros and cons of the proposed projects without embellishment and as honestly as possible.An example of one of the projects submitted to the court of Destroy My Game users

A large-scale opinion poll among independent Unity developers showed that it takes more than a year to develop a good project, studios rarely develop only one game, interest in VR/AR is growing in the industry, and developers are looking for new employees among acquaintances and in social networks.

The American publisher of anime and manga comics Viz Media has opened a gaming direction. The first released title of the company will be the action adventure The World Next Door from the independent studio Rose City Games.

Sales of the RimWorld space colonists simulator by the independent studio Ludeon Studios exceeded 1 million copies. The alpha version of the game was released in 2013, and since 2016 it has appeared in Steam early access.

Swedish indie studio Simogo is tired of making games for mobile platforms and is switching to developing console titles. The company explained the decision by the complexity of supporting its products on iOS.

The author of Triple Town and Steambirds, Daniel Cook, shared his view on the gaming industry and made predictions for the future. And we have translated the text and now we present it to your attention.