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How to Survive a 48-Hour Game Jam and Ship a Playable Game

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A 48-hour game jam is one of the most exhilarating challenges in game development: a ticking countdown, a mystery theme, and the pressure to ship something playable before time runs out. Events like Ludum Dare, the Global Game Jam, and the Game Maker’s Toolkit Jam on itch.io draw thousands of developers every year — from …

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How to Scope Your First Indie Game (So You Ship It)

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The graveyard of unfinished indie games is enormous. Developers start with brilliant ideas, spend months building systems, adding mechanics, expanding the world — and then quietly abandon the project somewhere around the halfway mark. It’s not a talent problem. It’s a scope problem. This guide gives you a concrete, step-by-step framework for defining exactly how …

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