MASTERING FUNDING for your next indie game Developing an indie video game requires significant funding for aspects like software, hardware, assets, marketing and more. In this educational video, I analyze effective strategies indie developers can leverage to raise money to turn their game ideas into reality. Specific topics covered include: Estimating a realistic development budget Traditional funding options - publishers, investors, crowdfunding Creative funding methods - early access, grants, competitions Setting fundraising timelines and stretch goals Assembling pitches and marketing materials Whether you're a seasoned game dev or just getting started, you'll walk away with a better understanding of consideratiosn around financing each stage of launching an independent video game after watching this video. Please subscribe for more insights and analysis on game development topics. #gamedev #indiedev #videogamefunding #gamefunding #indiegame #kickstarter #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #gamedevtips ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvC0-cNrmmc

GDEVELOP Game Engine Examples: BUBBLE BOX Continuing with the showcase of GDEVELOP games, and in this case a small and colorful puzzle game with a flavor of the old classics, ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ Our honest feedback The game is really engaging with it real good pixel art look and feel, that immediately makes you feel being in front of one of those classics games. All art assets have a very good level of quality from the sprites to the animations, everything is consistent to the feel that the creator indented too. From a point of game flow the game is really well designed as it is very easy to understand what you have to do, and even when the system starts to change as to increase the difficulty it is very intuitive to know how to proceed. The only doubt that it generated is if the gameplay can hold for a long period of time and if after a while, it doesn´t start to feel somewhat repetitive. The main challenge is based on the time that you have to complete the boxes, and that as you progress the colored pipes switches place. But it feels like you can almost do it automatically after a while. Probably putting more pipes with more colors, or to include patterns or obstacles that forced the player to think on the timing of the actions would increase the fun factor. Nonetheless a really cool game. You can find more information on the game webpage, with the web version on itch.io https://gohvnz.itch.io/bubble-box GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for Game Developers that want alternatives to the mainstream engines. It is small, fast and supported by a very supportive and growing community. GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for everyone - it's extensible, fast and easy to learn. In its concept it is very similar to Scirra Construct game engine ( somewhat less polished) with a growing community developing games, tutorials and supporting the game engine development. We are posting a serie of easy gdevelop tutorials to let you start your way into game development. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiyuZHAJlUir3DO5u0FkKhV449llDDSMH Download Gdevelop is free! https://gdevelop-app.com/download/ http://www.game-developers.org https://www.facebook.com/videogamedevevelopers https://twitter.com/game_developers https://game-developers.itch.io/ ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ from Game Developers to Game Developers, sharing knowledge MAKING YOUR WAY INTO THE GAMES INDUSTRY ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj4ezgwsJGA

DEFOLD Game Engine Examples: SMASH BASH We are thinking in producing some tutorials for the Defold Game Engine, which we think as a huge quality in the games it is able to produce. So this video showcase is also a question on whatever the community would be interested in Defold game engine tutorials. Let's know in the comments if you like to see Defold game engine tutorials. In the case of the game, a we are looking a really cool and high standard cooperative shooter with an impressive pixel art style. ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/game_developers ▶ ▶ Our Store: https://game-developers.org/shop ▶ Our honest feedback The game was love at first site. As soon as we looked for Defold examples on itch.io, we saw the thumbnail and we knew that we had to play the game and to review it. The game is a pixel art cooperative shooter with an oblique view that allows to see clearly all the details of the game. Up to 4 players can play cooperatively in a pos-apocalyptical world filled with dangerous zombies of different types that can attack you at any time. You can shoot in all directions while you move, but you have to make sure to save some amno, as you can be out of fire power for a couple of seconds while recovering energy. The same happens to your life which makes you having to manage correctly attacking/defending and running away from the enemies. You have to make several missions as you move through the world, talking and increasing your skill in local stores spread across the map. The Pseudo 3d effect achieved by the view and incredible construction of the world make it a very charming game to look at while playing, and that some times makes you forget the mission and just explore the world. Character design and animations is really great and full fill their objective quite well. The controls are sharp and very precise, which makes you to feel totally control of the game at all time. We can't wait to see the final version of the game. The game demo can be found on itch.io and on it website https://risingwave.itch.io/smash-bash-date-with-the-desert http://smash-bash.com/ Defold is a free to use, source available, 2d/3d game engine with a developer-friendly license. Defold is owned and developed by the Defold Foundation. It was originally bought and used by King Entertainment, which later on gave it back to the Defold Foundation. King still uses the game engine in some of its games. Download Defold Game Engine it is free! https://defold.com/download http://www.game-developers.org https://www.facebook.com/videogamedevevelopers https://twitter.com/game_developers https://game-developers.itch.io/ ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ ▶ Donate: http ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-6hJ8C1yM

Gdevelop FREE VISUAL Game Engine: CONTRA Tutorial #09 - START & GAME OVER SCREENS Welcome to Part 9, in our tutorial series on how to develop a contra’s like-game, with free visual game engine G DEVELOP. ▶ Please Subscribe : https://bit.ly/GameDevelopers ▶ In this video, we are fine-tuning some aspects of the game to start to give it some structure and have a more in depth control of what is happening. To achieve these objectives, we will improve the death mechanism to show a GAME OVER SCREEN and suspend the game until we restart it. We will implement a basic Start Screen with some limited functionalities for now, as it will only be used to start the game when the game is fresh starting, or when the player is starting again. If you want to learn how to make or design games, you have come to the right place. We are taking the full process to new levels. We are checking on the mechanics that we are implemented and then testing them in the game to make sure they are working correctly. So this is a really good course to learn on how to develop games. We will upload all the new assets to to the ITCHIO and we are thinking in opening a Github for the project, let us know which you like the most in the comments below. Resources used: the Contra Level Map used in the video: https://www.deviantart.com/kennyzzle/art/Contra-Stage-1-Jungle-20480791 Contra´s Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_%28video_game%29 Mindmap created: https://atlas.mindmup.com/gamedevelopers/free_mind_map/index.html Contra is a complex game but we will try to get as far as possible in cloning. Free Art Assets: https://gameartpartners.com/downloads/totally-free-goodies/ in case you want to make something close from Contra, you have also this spritesheets https://opengameart.org/content/open-gunner-starter-kit The Enemy Juggernaut https://gameartpartners.com/downloads/jughead-military-character-art/ Itch.io: Play the game the current version of the game being developed https://game-developers.itch.io/contra Download the assets https://game-developers.itch.io https://game-developers.org/contra-tutorial/ Get you controllers ready, download Gdevelop and we will be starting ... GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for everyone - it's extensible, fast and easy to learn. In its concept it is very similar to Scirra Construct game engine ( somewhat less polished) with a growing community developing games, tutorials and supporting the game engine development. We will post a serie of easy gdevelop tutorials to let you start your way into game development. Download Gdevelop is free! https://gdevelop-app.com/download/ #gamedev #indiedev #gametutorial #gamedevelopers #gdevelop http://game-developers.org/gdevelop-free-visual-game-eng ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFOlPSodMdE