was reading auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01... and how the vast majority of indies don't make it past their first game got me thinking about how i've been doing this fulltime for 10 years and released 5 games in that time absolutely wild to think my situation is somehow what success looks like - ThreadSky

eniko.bsky.social • 48 days ago

was reading https://auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01/15/a-pivot-to-indie-wont-save-us/ and how the vast majority of indies don't make it past their first game got me thinking about how i've been doing this fulltime for 10 years and released 5 games in that time

absolutely wild to think my situation is somehow what success looks like

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bento-bongos.bsky.social•48 days ago

Summitsphere, Aether Studios, and Yacht Club Games are something of a miracle in indie gaming.

Reason why many don't succeed is from a variety of reasons.

Three major ones that bring indies to their knees during development are funding, work ethic, and a stable pipeline.

jaywhangdoesstuff.com•48 days ago

📌

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

like, i'm ecstatic that i'm able to pay rent. in cyprus. a place we moved in large part because rents were so low

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

indie gamedev is messed up lol

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

anyway buy my games so i can survive to make 6 games instead of 5 lol https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/

katch.bsky.social•48 days ago

Fingers crossed that all your projects see the light of day!

alexanderhay.bsky.social•48 days ago

When's Kitsune Tails coming out on Switch, btw?

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

sometime first half of the year

zeboydgames.bsky.social•48 days ago

Yeah, I moved to Taiwan & Mexico (from California) for the same reason. Wish I had done so sooner.

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

yeah, we were in missouri before but it was still a big upgrade

california is sooooo expensive

lenarafetton.bsky.social•48 days ago

Yeah it feels like there's this tiny little band of success where that happens. A few indie devs knock it out of the park with a game and just live off the success of that. Most don't get enough success to continue on to a second game. Then some just make enough to keep going.

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

i wonder how much of it was that we've always been self published. that kinda thing makes you pretty thrifty

lenarafetton.bsky.social•48 days ago

My favorite indie RPG dev, Jeff Vogel of spiderweb software, has been churning out games at a consistent rate for decades now, basically since I've had my first computer before digital distribution platforms like steam which I've always found impressive.

eniko.bsky.social•48 days ago

didn't he have a modest hit early on though?

lenarafetton.bsky.social•48 days ago

I mean in the indie game realm, if you make enough to live off of that's pretty much a huge success isn't it? I remember reading that the average amount of sales for an indie game sold on steam is pretty dismal.

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