If you’re an indie dev who missed out on seeing it last year, you now have the chance to watch Saltsman’s talk for free over on the official GDC YouTube channel!
From his perspective, there’s lots of good dev advice about how to finish your game, how to market your game, how to playtest, and so on — but there’s not enough about how to start making your game.
Drawing on his own experience as an indie game developer and indie game company cofounder, Saltsman dug into questions like: are there certain styles of game that are “safer” to make, from a commercial perspective?
Making an original game and then selling it is even harder.
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