After a pandemic-era funding boom fizzled, Maryland developers are turning to bootstrapping, angels and virality to survive — and keep creative control.

As ballooning costs and longer production cycles strain major publishers, smaller teams are finding room to grow — and meaning in the creative freedom.

Leveraging analytics, community, and integrated tools to empower game developers and increase revenue transparency LOS ...

Originally, the gaming space was literally all about people who could make games, making games, and seeing how well they did. Then, the industry became a bit more corporate, with massive entities ...

No code game engines and tools are becoming increasingly popular, enabling artists and anyone with a good idea to create video games without the need for typing thousands of lines of code. Also known ...

Indie games — titles made by smaller teams with often equally small budgets operating outside the AAA publisher system — have been around almost as long as the medium of video games has existed.

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.

Israel’s gaming industry continues to grow, and at the first-ever GameIS grant awards, three independent developers received ...

Chequered Ink, a UK company producing fonts, game assets, and indie games, has released a pack of 10,000 game assets "to give budding developers an alternative to AI." Containing over 9000 graphics ...

Japanese indie games, created by small-scale or independent developers and attracting funding from publishing and other firms outside ...