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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The country's 18-month program will provide current and future studio founders with money and guidance to run their teams and help grow out the German game industry.

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MARCH 1, 2024

CEO Koen Deetman says the cuts come after trying to prevent them from hitting the staff 'as long as humanly possible.'

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Threshold's closure comes a month before it was set to officially reveal itself, and whatever it was working on, to the world.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Amber is putting its focus toward 'emerging markets,' and snatcheed up Madbricks to get a foothold in South America's game industry.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Unity's Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Solo VR dev Zander Dejah, formerly gameplay programmer on Vader Immortal, explores finding the fun with Vendetta Forever.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

More indie studios are being opened by established game devs, bringing with them a return to a leaner development process.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Crop Circle is one of many studios from Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain, and is at work on an unannounced project.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Its debut release, Hawthorn, is a co-op sandbox RPG inspired by Skyrim and Stardew Valley

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Game Developer

MARCH 25, 2024

The studio's next project is vaguely described as a return to its work before being made into a Call of Duty support dev.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

An expanded budget range for game projects lets union actors lend their voice or physical performance to more games from developers outside the triple-A sphere.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The four-year-old studio is letting employees go after it spent years building staff and working on 'something amazing.'

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Game Developer

MARCH 26, 2024

Stay lean, make games with your heart, and steal from the best.

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MARCH 22, 2024

"This is a rough environment for a lot of indie studios, and like them, we're faced with some very hard choices."

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 18, 2024

With the BFI's backing, the four projects will tackle the 'challenges' facing the UK game industry and help indie developers look more appealing to potential partners.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 7, 2024

Innersloth, the studio behind hit social deduction game Among Us, has created a new indie games fund. Entitled Outersloth, the project was announced on stage during today's Summer Game Fest Opening Showcase, where the studio said it wanted to share the success it has enjoyed with Among Us by funding other indie developers' games.

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Game Developer

MARCH 5, 2024

Like other indie studios before it, Nine Dots is turning to publishing to help smaller studios get their games out the door.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Indie creators must submit their game for consideration by September 20.

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JUNE 7, 2024

The Summer Game Fest stream was light on announcements, but heavy on indies and praise for the industry from Geoff Keighley.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With Mad About Pandas, Focus continues its goal of becoming another big name publisher in the games space.

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Game Developer

JUNE 11, 2024

Whether you’re a solo dev or indie studio riding the crest of the next wave, now is the time to clarify that vision. Gaming is transforming, and transformation is hard. The studios with a clear vision for the industry will be the standouts.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If UEFN is the future for Epic 5.0, what's it like making games for it? Cabbage Systems co-founders Kevin Cancienne and Margaret Robertson have some ideas.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Danish studio described Ghost Ship Publishing as a "passion project."

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 14, 2024

A number of headlines on other sites have declared this year's array of showcases as 'The Year of the Indie' – and they're not wrong. The titles seen across the likes of Guerrilla Collective, Wholesome Direct, and Day of the Devs were superb, with indie titles even turning up during Summer Game Fest and Xbox Games Showcase.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Solo dev Lente lives and works on a boat and that shows in her game Spilled! Despite being a solo dev all that time, he never really struggled with his motivation. “I

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Plus, various Korean indie games that launched on Steam have experienced considerable success. The post Korean indie dev Funnylocks “We made Unstoppable for a global audience” appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2023

Spanish solo dev Daniel Manzano (aka Dr. Kucho !) Which is only avoided with a well-defined hierarchy of power and/or competencies that not everyone in the indie world is willing to assume. The post Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the game now announced for a 2024-release, the part time solo dev is motivated to finish the game. The advantage of the indie space in general is that we get to work on smaller, more niche ideas. I drastically underestimated just how much time Marketing would take The toll on your mental health can be quite high as a solo dev.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 5, 2024

European indie game developers can submit their game no later than Thursday 11 January. The post European indie game devs have one week left to submit for the European Game Showcase at GDC 2024 appeared first on PreMortem Games. The event will be held at Swissnex located at Pier 17 in the Embarcadero, San Francisco during GDC.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

I then had enough time to focus on game dev, so I made the decision to start changing careers. I didn’t really think about what it meant to be a solo dev, I just focused on what I wanted to do which was learn how to make games. I knew plenty of software devs, even some that were making games, but they worked for game companies.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2023

Today sees the arrival of a new indie publishing label in the form of Cult Games. Cult will be responsible for publishing Galacticare – the sci-fi hospital management game by War for the Overworld dev Brightrock Games – as well as the next title from Witch Beam, the studio behind the multi-BAFTA winning puzzle game Unpacking.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 28, 2024

SAG-AFTRA has announced a new tier in its Independent Interactive Media Agreement. As part of this agreement, studios that have a project budget between $15 million and $30 million will benefit from union coverage, provisions against AI, and access to unionised voice actors and performers.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. On Twitter , she’s known to her 13K+ followers as ‘dev on a boat’. I went to school twice for game dev, both times did not work out. Maybe I can work at a small indie company, I guess I haven’t tried. last year as a solo developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox DoubleFine Productions and Iam8bit have announced that the next Days of the Devs event will occur on December 6. The indie game presentation, in partnership with the Game Awards, will be livestreamed. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 1, 2024

Yoshida, who is head of PlayStation Indies, and Rice, who is lead curator for Day of the Devs, will hold a talk titled 'Supporting Indies and Creativity in Game Development', where they will discuss the challenges indie studios may face and the support PlayStation can provide, as well as their shared experience of working with indie devs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 23, 2024

In a statement to GamesIndustry.biz , Humble Games said: "In these challenging economic times for indie game publishing, Humble Games has made the difficult but necessary decision to restructure our operations.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Google has announced that applications are open for its 2023 Indie Game Fund. The $2 million investment will select a group of small Latin American game studios. Read more

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