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What it takes to make a game by yourself
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Clone culture and its continuous impact on indie developers
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ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
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Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)
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The Fight for WorldBox
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Eight Years at Roblox
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
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Stardew Valley and real-life labour (2017)
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The End: I can not finish Limit Theory
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Surviving the App Store
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The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game
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How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
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Year 1: My full time indie developer life
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No Man’s Sky One Year Later
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Localizing “Papers, Please” (2014)
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10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Kickstarter
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A game developer's story of perseverance
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Horrible Things I Found Out When I Made A Video Game
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There's no easy way to say this
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How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (2005)
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Where have all the iOS games gone?
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How I got a game on Steam without anyone from Valve ever looking at it
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On Let's Plays – That Dragon, Cancer
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Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget
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When a dev dies, their apps should live on
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Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer
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A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer
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A tale of indie RPG development
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Releasing a Commercial ASCII Roguelike, a Post-Mortem
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Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store
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How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?
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Post mortem of my one game a month
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Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC
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Localizing Papers, Please
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How I wrote Game Programming Patterns
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The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires
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Battle of Brothers: A Video Game Programming Duel
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Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
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Why Indie Developers Go Insane
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Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay
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Robot Turtles Kickstarter midmortem at $250k
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How a hobbyist game dev broke into the App Store's top 25
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Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
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9 Year-Old Raising Money to Attend RPG Camp
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After 14 years, GameSpy closes down
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I was wrong
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How a bedroom developer's 'ugly little game' became an App Store hit
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Former Zynga Engineer doing AMA on reddit
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The end of cow clicker
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Indie Game Devs Post Own Game on The Pirate Bay
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The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games]
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The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit
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Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post)
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How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.
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How Many (Indie) Games I Sell - Part Two
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So Here's How Many Games I Sell - Indie Game Developer Story
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How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
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