Gameindustry.biz posted an article this week about the effect of COVID-19 on indie game developers. While I understand the majority of the concerns in the article, I don’t agree with them and I’m going to attempt to offer the silver lining in this pandemic. …

We work in an industry that is on the leading edge of the world’s technology, yet we are still dependent on spending thousands of dollars to travel around the world and attend conferences in person. Let me be clear, I’m not opposed to traditional conferences. …

The two events will combine to provide both on site and online matchmaking and video conferencing. San Francisco March 2nd 2020 — MeetToMatch and Indie Game Business have announced today that their events are merging in response to the official cancellation of GDC 2020 after increased fears of the Coronavirus…

After last month’s announcement of GDC’s 2020 registration prices, it’s no surprise the gaming industry went into frenzy with a hike in ticket costs. …

The first lesson: Clear your schedule for the week. I had no idea what I was getting into. I had this idea late on Friday July 5. The plan was to use the list to help raise awareness for our upcoming virtual business event. No big deal. …

Welcome back! If you missed the first article (PR & Messaging), you can catch up with that link, we’ll wait for you. This article will cover how to go about prospecting for new work and what to put in a great proposal. It’s worth keeping in mind that when Ed…

AKA — Being the grizzly, even if you’re a koala If you run your own game development company, your daily to-do list is probably overflowing with important tasks: completing projects, communicating with your customers, directing your development team, handling distribution issues, creating marketing assets, and in some cases even coding or creating art for your game — all of which…

Steam, and that’s as far as many companies think. Now we have the Epic store, Discord’s store and there are several additional marketplaces that indie teams need to take into account. Let’s first look at “why”. Discoverability: Steam is over-crowded and not curated well. Every year there are more games…

Part of the benefit of running a consulting firm is that you have access to thousands of developers and should you be inclined to help them, they will typically help you as well. I’ve long been a proponent of better business education for our development community. We work in a…