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7 Indie Game Postmortem Lessons + Why Games Fail

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Indie game postmortem writeups are the most underutilized free education in game development. Hundreds of shipped indie titles publish detailed postmortems on Game Developer, Reddit, itch.io, and personal dev blogs every year, yet most studios making the exact same mistakes never read them. After collecting and categorizing patterns from postmortems published over the past several …

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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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