I am the owner of DigtialDNA Games. DigitalDNA Games the all time highest grossing Xbox Live Indie Game devloper. Digital DNA games has published over 14 titles on Xbox Live Indie Game including some of the all time best selling games such as Avatar Paintball, CastleMiner, and the all time best selling XBLIG CastleMiner Z.
Last week my article “How to Make it as a Professional Indie Game Developer” caused quite a stir.I wanted to take some time and address a lot of the comments and questions that people have raised in one concise place.
Thomas Steinke, one of the most successful developers on XBLIG (CastleMiner, Avatar Laser Wars), gives his perspective on the system's biggest problems.
Great article, I had a very similar one I was going to post myself. I LOVED steam/Valve until I started having to deal with them in this capacity. I wonder if they realize how much bad blood they are building with the development community that is waiting in line to ...
The problem is that it doesn 't mean that. It just simply means developing independently without the constraints of a publisher. People have assigned that meaning to it with an idealistic view that for some reason that needs to happen. r n r nAll I want to do is deliver ...
There was such an overwhelming response to this article I decided to condense a lot of my answers to questions in another article here r n r nhttp://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasSteinke/20130415/190484/Reponse to quot8 keys to indie successquot.php
Great Article. I always say that Indie developers all define their success in different ways, which is what is great about Indie Development. Thank you for the mention.
To be honest there is nothing good to say about the review process it was a mess and was only made worst by the 7-day delay they put on it. The worst part was this also occurs for updates to a game. If you release a game and it has ...
Robert, it is fairly insulting to literally degrade every game that has sold well on the platform. What it does illustrate is how little you understand about this marketplace. Being responsible for 5 of these games, I really take this personally. There are a lot of Minecraft like games on ...
