Ex-employees of BioWare Austin Dallas Dickinson (Dallas Dickinson) and Gabe Amantangelo (Game Amantangelo) told how Electronic Arts forced them to leave the famous studio and open their own company for the sake of reviving their own project.

What becomes the main obstacle for most independent developers? The creator of the indie platformer Spelunky, Derek Yu, tried to answer this question on his Twitter. In his opinion, if a developer wants to succeed in his business, he needs to learn not to abandon projects halfway, but to consistently bring them to the final.

Gamasutra analyzed the anatomy of the genre of metroidvaniy — two-dimensional action adventure, the foundations of which were laid 30 years ago by Metroid from Nintendo and Castlevania from Konami. These games combined the familiar gameplay of platformers with a vast world that had to be explored during the passage.

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.

Sprite hybrid bitmap and bagel Wizards of Legends from the indie team Contingent99 sold 200 thousand copies in the first week.

Czech independent studio Hyperbolic Magnetism has announced a good start to its VR project Beat Saber. In the first week, sales of the game about chopping multicolored cubes with a lightsaber exceeded $ 50 thousand copies.