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Storytelling through Indie Games
Alec Holowka of Infinite Ammo (and half of Bit-Blot) closed the Indie Games Summit at GDC Austin with one of the best talks of the conference. Alec went on immediately following Twisted Pixel. People were leaving as he took the stage, and Alec conf...
Splosion Man: How to make an XBLA game in 6 months
Twisted Pixel’s talk can be summed up pretty easily. Don’t Do It! Do not try to make a game for XBLA in 6 months! The team wanted to make XBLA’s Summer of Arcade so they came up with this ridiculous schedule which resulted in some 90 hour w...
2DBoy: Beyond the Finish Line
Ron Carmel (aka half of 2Dboy) spoke about the hurdles they faced after the release of World of Goo. Their problems stemmed from retail partners putting Mac discs in PC boxes, bugs, Paypal, their hosting provider, and more. This all manifested it...
Effective Marketing for Indie Game Developers
Wolfire’s John Graham candidly shared a lot of their PR tactics and marketing techniques. John’s first point: big companies have lame PR tips that don’t relate to Indies so nix all of these common PR practices and do the opposite:...
The NinjaBee Story
Brent Fox, Co-Founder of Wahoo Studios and Ninja Bee, panel was entitled: “How to Operate Your Indie Game Business for Fun and Profit” but it really just focused on the story of his Studio and what they’ve done right and wrong. It ...
Business Managing Your Indie Developer Through the Downturn
I found Jennifer’s talk the worst of the day, not because she was a bad speaker but rather because her focus didn’t seem relevant to most indies. She had some good points that Indies should definitely take to heart: Have a business pla...
Post Mortem: Fantastic Contraption – Fantastic Cash
Colin easily had one of the most entertaining panels of the day. His panel focused on a Post Mortem of his Flash game: Fantastic Contraption and how he made a ton of money off of it. Northway woke up one night and wrote down on a piece of paper his...
New Indie Hotness
Brandon Boyer of Offworld.com had my favorite panel so far… not a lot of information in it… but he did highlight 7 upcoming indie games that’s he’s excited for: The games kicked off with Brandon poorly playing Spelunky. Spel...
Bit.Trip Series: Holistic Indie Game Design
Mike Roush, the artist of Gaijin Games, got things kicked off at the indie game summit with his talk on Holistic game design. The core takeaway from the talk was that the team at Gaijin Games (game designer, artist, and programmer) all have input i...
