gibbage.co.uk — The "So you want to be a Indie Developer?" project features articles of advice on the reality of making your own games from every corner of the sector; from those currently risking everything by going full-time Indie to established industry leaders such as DEFCON's Introversion via unmitigated nonsense like Lemmy and Binky.
Nov 20, 2006 View in Crawl 4
zoomyNov 20, 2006
You don't paint the happiest painting, do you?P.S Buy Gibbage
radu79Nov 21, 2006
I am an indie developer, and quite successful. It's a lot of hard work, very frustrating, sometimes you feel like giving up, but in the end, if you build it, it will come.I have an article about it, let me know if you are interested (I don't want people to think I am pimping my articles).
sirshaneNov 21, 2006
I currently work full-time as an independent developer for a small game company a friend and I have started a few years back. I've so far invested over a year of my life and more than $10,000 into our technology, which we hope will give us an edge to make our game. Being an independent developer is incredibly hard work, especially since the game industry is moving so fast - it's hard to keep up. Still, I don't think there is anything else I would rather be doing. The ultimate reward is seeing your game work at the end of the day. It's frustrating, brutal work but the payoff is very satisfying.
hockeyNov 21, 2006
It may be hard work however if you love it then it's not work then is it? :)
nebariNov 21, 2006
I'd be interested, as well, radu.
terminalityNov 21, 2006
Get off digg and back to work =P
xp3ll3dNov 23, 2006
Yeah please post it radu
xp3ll3dNov 23, 2006
Links to the other articles in the seriesIntroversion - <a class="user" href="http://www.introversion.co.uk/news/index.php">http://www.introversion.co.uk/news/index.php</a>Cliffski's Mumblings - <a class="user" href="http://cliffski.blogspot.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html">http://cliffski.blogspot.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html</a>GameProducer.net - <a class="user" href="http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/11/20/so-you-want-to-be-an-indie-developer/">http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/11/20/so-you-want-to-be-an-indie-developer/</a>Lemmy and Binky - <a class="user" href="http://lemmyandbinky.blogspot.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html">http://lemmyandbinky.blogspot.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html</a>Reality Fakers - <a class="user" href="http://sharpfish.realityfakers.com/?p=103">http://sharpfish.realityfakers.com/?p=103</a>Zoombapup - <a class="user" href="http://www.zoombapup.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html">http://www.zoombapup.com/2006/11/so-you-want-to-be-indie-developer.html</a>BoneBroke - <a class="user" href="http://www.bonebroke.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/20/so-you-want-to-be-an-indie-developer/">http://www.bonebroke.com/blog/index.php/2006/11/20/so-you-want-to-be-an-indie-developer/</a>They Came from Hollywood - <a class="user" href="http://www.theycamefromhollywood.com/news.html">http://www.theycamefromhollywood.com/news.html</a>