Five Steps To Get Motivated to Make Your Indie Game
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:30:57
Full-time indie game developers have a pretty accessible motivator called “the bank account.” Sadly, it works best when diminished, which is not it’s preferred state. But let’s say you are a part-time indie, or an aspiring indie, and your ability to keep eating is not tied to the completion and success of your next game. [...]

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