PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. We made a prototype of the game, but the climbing part didn’t really work. Ryder: “Making and releasing a game in general is extremely taxing, whether you’re making a small indie title or releasing a AAA-game on PS5.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Polish indie studio Eleven Puzzles has been making a name for themselves as the creators of some fine cooperative puzzle games, like Unsolved Case and Unboxing the Cryptic Killer. ” Once a concept is chosen, it goes through a prototyping phase where function takes priority over form.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

The idea for New Heights emerged as a personal prototype, driven by the desire to create a game focused on exploration rather than violence. The post Indie dev studio Wikkl Works takes virtual rock climbing to New Heights appeared first on PreMortem Games. It is great to see that it’s working out so far.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 22, 2023

A launch title for the PlayStation 5 in 2020, Young Horses' Bugsnax very quickly become an indie darling thanks to its silly critters and fun mechanics to catch them, its compelling story, and its great cast. Read more

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Mnenad

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is the story of the mobile game Countryball Potato Mayhem - my first ever published, solo indie game. Let's see how it all started as a whacky prototype and if it became a great success or an epic failure.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

If Triple-A games are the equivalent of Hollywood blockbuster movies and indie games are comparable to independent films, then you could call Indika by Odd Meter an arthouse experience. So, we spent a lot of time prototyping, researching, and testing until we found our formula. We really are an indie studio in the classical sense.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At first glance a normal indie game studio, but the co-founders live and work continents apart. We are a very, very small indie studio working with a publisher (Assemble Entertainment) that cares about its titles, but is also small. And from there we make a detailed script, then a level design and start prototyping.

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 25, 2018

It was bare bones, but it got the job done for the simple prototypes I was working on at the time. They did have Indie pricing where the first platform was free if your budget was less than $500K. When Thimbleweed Park pre-production started, I looked into sound systems. The two big choices were Wwise and FMOD.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Farrell and Mackenzie form the two-person indie studio Peaty Turf. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. As long as it works.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest breakout hits of 2023 was the haunting fishing adventure Dredge by New Zealand-based indie developer Black Salt Games. They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. Dredge was one of three prototypes they created.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. So, almost two years ago I decided to fully embrace the indie path and became a solodev.” This finally leads me to prototyping and validation. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 15, 2024

Years ago, at the annual Penny Arcade Expo games convention, I was showing off an advanced prototype of Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. The exercise is unforgiving, and that makes it powerful.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. prototype started gaining traction with nominations, awards and people posting YouTube videos.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2024

So far I haven’t done any prototyping either as I feel it would have taken too long to validate my ideas that way. Working in a good team would likely be the most ideal way to do indie game development. What’s your creative process? “It’s It’s mostly just brainstorming alone.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Midnight Girl , from indie studio Italic , oozes French cool. We made a prototype of the game, but the climbing part didn’t really work. Ryder: “Making and releasing a game in general is extremely taxing, whether you’re making a small indie title or releasing a AAA-game on PS5.

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Grumpy Gamer

JUNE 26, 2018

It was bare bones, but it got the job done for the simple prototypes I was working on at the time. They did have Indie pricing where the first platform was free if your budget was less than $500K. FMOD changed their license, so it is now it's a flat $5000 for all platforms (and still free if your indie budget is less than $500K).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. Video games have the ability to transport users to another place and time. It takes players back to the 90s, to a small town in rural Indonesia. Atma has to deal with his magical powers.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 23, 2024

At first glance a normal indie game studio, but the co-founders live and work continents apart. We are a very, very small indie studio working with a publisher (Assemble Entertainment) that cares about its titles, but is also small. And from there we make a detailed script, then a level design and start prototyping.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

German indie developer Vivid Storm Interactive is a three person team that started when they launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ascent of Ashes in 2021. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. Godot doesn’t feel quite as chaotic as Unity did at times.”

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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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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet I want to make it absolutely clear that Kickstarter is not the only, or even necessarily the best, way for indie board game developers to self-publish their work. As far as the expenses that come with getting a game started, namely art and prototyping, there is a good chance the publisher will take care of that for you.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Then the first wave of really successful indie games appeared on Steam, in the late 00s and early 10s. People who follow indie/solo devs on social media tend to be really nice and positive, but even so it takes a lot of effort.” When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

The indie game that does this especially well is A Space for the Unbound by Mojiken Studio. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it. Video games have the ability to transport users to another place and time. It takes players back to the 90s, to a small town in rural Indonesia. Atma has to deal with his magical powers.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. Crowdfunding is more popular than it has ever been before, which is great because this is one of the most popular ways to produce indie board games.

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Tom Francis

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve been tweeting GIFs of a game I’m prototyping in Unity for a while now, codenamed Tiny Ex-Cons, and recently did a video blog about the core elements I’m hoping to combine if I go ahead with it. My prototype is too early to say if either of those systems will stick, I’ll happily scrap or change them if not.

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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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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. There's also a thrill of access, where the camera captures vulnerable moments it wasn't quite supposed to see.

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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.

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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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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I was focused hard during this time on learning as much as I could about game design, focused on “efficiency” and elegance in design, which is what brought me to crunchy rulesets like those of designer Eurogames and the indie Rogue-likes-and-company world.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

FNF is the most recent smash hit indie rhythm game (which is also open source!), The rapid and hotfix prototyping that Godot provides made it possible for me to learn the engine quickly and then make a VR game quickly. The first prototype of FNFVR was made in around two weeks if I remember correctly.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

Also, if you're an indie filmmaker or small company, the question of the price will obviously be a thrill. Celtx claims to be game-industry friendly, which clearly broadens its profile with story maps and rapid prototyping tools. While bringing interactivity and intuitiveness, there's still the routine of manual labor.

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