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Indie game development - Unity Tutorial
From the course: Careers in the Game Industry
Indie game development
- [Voiceover] Everyone wants to be independent. Independence means freedom. No creative boundaries. However, often the thrill of independence turns into a simple question. Now what? Historically a game developer hires a team to make a game, then sells or works with a publisher to finish the game and hand that game off to that publisher. All parties got a cut of the profits. This model has held up throughout most of the long history of video game development. This agreement worked but wasn't always seen as a fair process. Over the last ten years, a slow evolution has been taking place. Now a game developer can go it alone. An independent or indie developer makes their own game without a relationship with an established publisher. They then publish and often distribute the game either wholly on their own or more often by using online distribution partners like Steam. Changes in how games are distributed to the player have made this change not only possible, but common. Since players can…
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