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How to Price Your Indie Game Without Underselling It
Your price tag talks before your trailer does. Here's how to pick a number that signals the right thing, and why charging too little costs you twice.
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Shipping Your Indie Game on More Than One Platform
Every extra platform is a permanent maintenance cost, not a one-time port. Here's how to decide which ones are worth carrying, and which ones quietly bleed you.
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How to Find Playtesters Who Actually Tell You the Truth
Finding people to test your game is the easy part. Getting feedback you can use — instead of a polite thumbs up — takes the right people, the right questions, and a lot of silence.
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Are Devlogs Worth It for Indie Game Developers?
Devlogs build an audience — usually of other developers, not players. That's not useless, but you should know what you're buying before you spend a hundred hours on it.
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How to Get Press to Cover Your Indie Game
Games journalists aren't gatekeepers keeping you out. They're people with a full inbox and a deadline. Write the email that saves them work and you get covered.
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Should Your Game Go Into Early Access? An Honest Test
Early Access suits games that get better with players in them and quietly ruins games with an ending. Here's how to tell which one you're actually building.
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How to Get Your First 100 Wishlists for an Indie Game
The first hundred wishlists come from people you can name, not algorithms. Here's where to actually find them, and why paying for reach this early teaches you nothing.
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How to Write a Steam Page That Actually Converts
A store page isn't a description of your game. It's an argument that this specific game is for this specific person. Here's how to build it in the order a visitor reads it.
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Choosing a Game Engine: Godot, Unity, Unreal or GameMaker
The engine question is usually procrastination in a trench coat. Here's how to pick fast by what actually differs between Godot, Unity, Unreal and GameMaker.
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How to Market an Indie Game When You Have No Money
Most free marketing advice is unpaid labour with a terrible hourly rate. Here's how to sort the tactics that pay off from the ones that just fill your evenings.
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