![]() ![]() For just $12/month, they'll send you 6-7 games every month, plus you can also download over 60(!) games in their "Humble Trove." They're good games. That not enough? Join the Humble Monthly Bundle. What do you think the going rate for the best indie games ever made is?ĭid you guess 'Free'? You're right! Go to the Epic Game Store every week and they'll hand you the best indie games, games way better than mine, for free! Why Is It So Hard To Make Money In Indie Games? The indie games business is hard, one of the toughest there is. Do you realize how few people have turned a good profit for that long in this blood sport business? I am rarer than a unicorn made of bigfoots! It's as if having long experience and a huge body of work gives my words some sort of weight and my advice some value. Some people really get annoyed when I bring this up. And, please, I beg you, support and the good work they do. ![]() ![]() You see, I am the cheapest bastard in indie games. If you like indie games, I think you might find how I survive interesting. Along the way, I'm going to explain to you the whole indie games biz, from soup to nuts. So I am going to say some stuff about making and budgeting video games and why I am a bozo and why I am cursed to be a bozo forever. Why can't I afford art direction? How much does art cost? Why don't I do this or that smart thing? So that's why I'm writing this. Fixing the problem costs time and cash, and I don't have any of either to spare. Thanks to all! When you're trying to get attention for a small indie game, there's no such thing as bad publicity.īasically, my blog post said, "Some people like my art, but I am still super-bad at art. Others took precious time out of their days to let me know I am a gigantic, gigantic bozo. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and I don't want to go mad.Ī week ago, I put up a blog post called "Why All My Games Look Like Crap." It really blew up. ![]() Note that I use game art that I like to look at. ![]()
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