Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

What makes it special is that it is well-liked among indie designers and large studios. The Blueprint system allows for faster prototyping. Advantage A faster learning curve allows quicker game development, which is ideal for startups & indie developers. Advantage Budget-friendly for indie game creators and startups.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

First person slasher genre Triternion was officially founded in 2017, but the roots go back as far as 2014 when two developers built the initial prototypes and explorations in the first person slasher genre. “The indie game developer scene in Slovenia is growing, but is still relatively small.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

The aim of CSG in Godot is for it to be used in level prototyping. Unreal has always offered similar boolean CSG, while Unity has recently acquired ProBuilder (which is a different type of tool, but still aimed at prototyping level geometry). For indies or small companies, it may even involve outsourcing to third party artists.

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Greenheart Games

AUGUST 30, 2018

This is what the game looked like as a prototype. We spend a few months in this prototype developing the algorithms on how points are generated, what decisions players make, and how virtual games are reviewed and judged. We took our prototype and ported it from C# to JavaScript. Steam in 2013.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And seems it provides a solid ground to start hiring the rest of the team, while they start prototyping their ideas. It’s well-documented that the R&D process at Riot involves prototyping with small teams , which in turn could resemble the famous (Super) cell structure. The profiles make me think of something indie-looking.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 28, 2024

However, with AI, even small indie studios can produce high-quality games that rival those of larger, well-funded companies. This is where AI steps in, learning procedural rules and relationships from images to generate diverse and adaptive content. .” AI’s potential to democratize game development cannot be overstated.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping. Unreal is a better solution for big games, and Unity is more popular among indie developers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Wait, shouldn't a prototype come first? After a good idea, the most natural action is to prototype it. An Indie or Experimental Game : Steam, GOG, etc.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

Renee Gittins , indie game developer of Potions: A Curious Tale , faced severe harassment after the release of her game on Steam earlier this year. She taught herself programming and volunteered for indie studios, eventually creating her first prototype, ‘Potions: A Curious Tale’.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CONTENT WARNING: This post contains discussion of gay sex acts and some screenshots with obscured pixel art nudity. Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). It'll take about 30 minutes.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

There's practically never executive meddling in indie games because there are practically no executives involved. You may have guessed the kind of games these tend to be - the franchise games with regular release schedules and the live service games with regular content updates all hope to stay in this lane.

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