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True Indies Have Part-Time Jobs

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Over the last few weeks I’ve adopted the motto of a new definition for “indie.”

“Indie” used to simply mean that you were independent, that no one was paying you to do something, that you were completely free.

And yet, we have multi-million dollar projects appearing on Kickstarter every year. Projects run by famous figureheads. Are these really comparable to the tiny developer spending their savings and their time into their work?

And thus, I repeat my new definition of “indie:”

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Social Media & Online Presence (part 4 of 7)

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So, you’ve begun committing yourself to making your indie game and are making good progress. You have a website representing your company and game’s development. But no one knows your game exists unless they look up your site directly.

Thankfully, the wonderful world of social media can help you raise awareness on your game.

Honestly, I detest social media for reasons most people already state. It’s silly to have such a desire to exist and be seen online, often when you don’t really have anything to say. But for companies and business and products, this sort of thing is invaluable, and only because of the people who already use it.

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Making Your Game & Company “Official” (part 3 of 7)

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By this point, you’ve probably begun making your game. You’re pleased with the results so far, and believe you can commit yourself to seeing this project through to the end.

Then it’s time to get serious and go over some legal stuff you should think about.

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Make a Successful Indie Game Using Kickstarter… Why? (part 1 of 7)

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So, you’ve been thinking.

You’ve been watching television. You’ve been reading internet news. You’ve been reading the local newspaper and magazines and books.

You’ve seen that Kickstarter is a great way to get money directly from fans/customers for you to use to create your product.

You’ve seen that many indie games have achieved success on the site.

You’ve decided that you will make a Kickstarter campaign for your game!

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So You Want To Make An Indie Game… Don’t Get Ahead Of Yourself

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My Kickstarter page for “James – Journey of Existence” (http://kck.st/19wTNSh) is doing lousy, and probably won’t succeed unless a mob of backers comes in during the last week. But I did get some attention, especially from Russian indie gamers on youtube. I also got a lot of interested people hoping I would hire them onto the project (see previous posts). One interesting person making his own indie game contacted me, which is what inspired this post…

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