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 ...

Early-stage venture Blue Ocean Games has launched a $30 million fund to support indie game developers. The fund uses an investment model called SAIL (Structured Agreement for Indie Launch), which ...

Two smaller-scale games have cancelled their planned Xbox ports, possibly due to lower demand or the Xbox Series X/S ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.