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WATCH | Compulsion Games: Meet the developers behind Contrast and We Happy Few

The development team behind the indie games, Contrast and We Happy Few talk about their bumpy start and what vision they have for the studio.

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Wartile

We chatted with Michael Rud Jakobsen about Wartile, his journey from ceramics to game development, and what inspires him to keep making games.

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The Game That Made Me Want to Make Games

Four devs talk about the titles that inspired them and drove them to their current career path in the games industry.

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Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Got a great idea for a game or character? Make it real. Get it out of your head and onto a digital canvas to develop and share with others.

Start organizing your ideas in the Game Design document. Create concept art for your characters and environments. Begin developing your story.

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Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

From your concept art and model sheets, use 3D tools to bring your character to life. First, create a 3D model. Then texture, rig, and animate it before bringing it into your game engine.

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Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Bring all your characters and environments together, lay out your levels, and build great gameplay. Test your game to make sure it’s fun. Then, publish it where people can find and play it.

Find out more

Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Design

Got a great idea for a game or character? Make it real. Get it out of your head and onto a digital canvas to develop and share with others.

Start organizing your ideas in the Game Design document. Create concept art for your characters and environments. Begin developing your story.

Find out more
Create

From your concept art and model sheets, use 3D tools to bring your character to life. First, create a 3D model. Then texture, rig, and animate it before bringing it into your game engine.

Find out more
Build

Bring all your characters and environments together, lay out your levels, and build great gameplay. Test your game to make sure it’s fun. Then, publish it where people can find and play it.

Find out more

Get inspired by other indie game makers

Barking Mouse Studio

Its first game is a winner—of awards

When they first got started, Danielle Swank and Jim Fleming didn’t know what making a game would be like. But they took a risk, discovered support in the community, and found success with Lost Toys.

Indie game maker Barking Mouse Studio is an indie game development success story

Images courtesy of Barking Mouse Studio

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Digital Extremes

Indie attitude goes AAA

A hybrid ninja/sci-fi shooter game with RPG elements that is free to play? That’s Warframe. How did Digital Extremes break industry trends to build a AAA-style game on an indie budget? By building a great game and working directly with the player community.

Images courtesy of Digital Extremes

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Subatomic Studios

Following up on indie gaming success

Subatomic Studios was one of the first indie game makers to score a hit on iOS with the tower defense game Fieldrunners. For an encore, they needed something familiar, but that brought new gameplay and visuals to the franchise. Fieldrunners 2 does just that.