09 March 2010
If you are a start-up studio (less that 3 years old), I can heartily recommend the Microsoft BizSpark program. As well as a lot of help & support, and networking opportunities, it gives you free access to pretty much ALL Microsoft software (incredible but true). Here are a few details, but to get the full picture [...]
Posted in Blogs, Development, News
07 March 2010
I read an interesting discussion on this recently, and wanted to see if I could get some further opinion on it – so please comment below or over in the forums if you have any info to share. What I am hearing is… Publisher budgets have dropped, and they are becoming more risk averse at the moment [...]
Posted in Business, Development
04 March 2010
Potentially very exciting news, a brand new fund for indie game development: http://www.indie-fund.com/ Interview with Ron Carmel: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27446/Independent_Game_Luminaries_Announce_Indie_Fund.php Thoughts from Jon Blow: http://the-witness.net/news/?p=80 What is Indie Fund? Indie Fund is a brand new funding source for independent developers, created by a group of successful indies looking to encourage the next wave of game developers. It was established as a serious [...]
Posted in Development, News
04 March 2010
From Gamasutra: Ska Studios’ Xbox Live Indie Games release, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 surpassed the 200,000 unit sales mark this week, the developer said Tuesday, with each unit selling for $1. To be exact, the studio said it sold 200,343 units of the top-down zombie-filled action game. With the standard 70/30 revenue split [...]
Posted in News, Sales Figures
02 March 2010
It looks like the Elan Awards are knocking on our door of consciousness and, because I can (and because I have been told to), I will let you all know via an actual post! It is the 4th Annual Elan Awards and it will take place in San Diego, California, 17-19 of July 2010. “What is the [...]
Posted in News
24 February 2010
WiiWare Grows over 30% to Nearly $60 Million in 2009 February 22, 2010 – Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment, LLC (FADE) has released its annual report for 2009 for Nintendo’s WiiWare and Virtual Console services. FADE estimates that the two platforms combined for $125 million in revenue in 2009, with the holiday rush just giving Virtual [...]
Posted in Self-publishing
17 February 2010
[GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley examines January 2010's PlayStation Network debuts and continuing successes, with charts and leaderboard data, to find out what digital PSN titles are doing well at the start of the year.] While the new year has begun, Sony’s PlayStation Network for PS3 has started off with several new titles for download – including [...]
Posted in Sales Figures
17 February 2010
[GamerBytes editor Ryan Langley examines Decembers 2009's Xbox Live Arcade debuts and continuing successes, with charts and leaderboard data, to find out what digital XBLA titles are doing well at this year's end.] With December over, the new year of 2010 begins, and with it some new XBLA releases. Previously, January on the Xbox Live Arcade [...]
Posted in Sales Figures
13 February 2010
Just heard about the Indie Love Bundle – its both a very interesting marketing concept, and an incredibly good deal. So take a look at those games, and you’ll soon realise $20 is a very small price to pay for such cracking titles… For the love of all things awesome, please write an article about this bundle. [...]
10 February 2010
A big congratulations to Introversion for their big day – Darwinia+ launched on XBLA. We don’t usually post release info (not that we don’t want to – it is just time constraints), but Mark has been such a big help to indievision (and the indie community in general) that we’d like to say – Please Buy [...]
Posted in News
08 February 2010
Greetings Indie Vision. I wanted to ask a question based on the digital distribution service steam. I’m an indie developer and i’m currently approaching my local government for funding a game project targeted for platforms like steam and impulse. One of the requirements of securing such funding is to prove that there is a reasonable chance of [...]
Posted in Ask I.V.
Posted in Blogs
04 February 2010
There’s no doubt that the iPhone is one of the most talked about platforms in game development today. While there is a lot of great information available for developers looking to get into iPhone development, there is also lots of misconceptions and misinformation that can be difficult to filter out for anyone not actively doing iPhone development.
Posted in Development
26 January 2010
Jeffrey Rosen at Wolfire Games discusses their recent Organic Indie Preorder Pack... To recap, a couple of weeks ago, we ran a promotion with fellow San Francisco developer, Unknown Worlds, bundling preorders of our two upcoming games together, Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2, for $39.95.
Posted in Marketing, Self-publishing
BizSpark Program from Microsoft
Indie Tools & Utilities – 2010 Update
Publisher Budgets for Downloadable Games
Indie Fund Announcement
XBLIG Zombie Game Hits 200,000 Units
Elan Awards 2010
State of the WiiWare Market
North American PlayStation Network Sales Analysis, January 2010
Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis, January 2010
The Indie Love Bundle
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