The Culling 2 Failure Case Study: When Trend Chasing Destroys Product Identity
A practical indie game failure case study on The Culling 2, covering battle royale trend chasing, sequel positioning, player trust, niche identity, and launch failure.
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Yogventures Failure Case Study: When Audience Access Is Mistaken For Development Capacity
A practical indie game failure case study on Yogventures, covering influencer-backed crowdfunding, sandbox scope, brand trust, stakeholder responsibility, and delivery risk.
The Stomping Land Failure Case Study: When Early Access Becomes A Trust Contract
A practical indie game failure case study on The Stomping Land, covering Early Access abandonment, survival game scope, update cadence, key-person risk, and public trust.
Unsung Story Failure Case Study: When A Famous Name Is Not A Production Plan
A practical indie game failure case study on Unsung Story, covering crowdfunding trust, famous creator positioning, tactical RPG scope, handoffs, and production credibility.
No Man's Sky Launch Failure Case Study: When Expectation Becomes The Real Product
A practical indie game failure case study on No Man's Sky, covering launch expectations, media pressure, implied promises, procedural content, and the cost of hype.
Planet Centauri Case Study: Why Indie Game Launches Need Platform Risk Plans
A practical indie game case study on Planet Centauri, covering Steam wishlists, launch visibility, platform dependency, Early Access fatigue, and release risk planning.
Cube World Case Study: How Silence Turns Indie Game Hype Into Risk
A practical indie game case study on Cube World, covering long silence, community expectations, mental health, communication risk, and returning after years away.
Towns Failure Case Study: Early Access Money Is Not a Finish Line
A practical indie game failure case study on Towns, covering alpha funding, Early Access risk, abandonment, burnout, revenue decline, and player trust.
Godus Failure Case Study: The Cost of Overpromising an Indie Game
A practical indie game failure case study on Godus, covering Kickstarter promises, creative vision, platform drift, backer trust, and expectation management.
Mighty No. 9 Failure Case Study: When Kickstarter Success Becomes Production Debt
A practical indie game failure case study on Mighty No. 9, covering crowdfunding expectations, platform scope, communication risk, nostalgia, and production debt.
Sustainable Indie Game Development: Shipping Without Burning Out
A practical guide to sustainable indie game development, covering workload, milestones, money, motivation, community pressure, post-launch support, and long-term creative health.
Marketing for Indie Game Developers: Start Before the Game Is Finished
A practical marketing guide for indie game developers, covering positioning, Steam pages, demos, devlogs, short videos, community, wishlists, and launch preparation.
A Practical Tech Stack for Indie Game Developers
A calm, production-oriented guide to choosing engines, tools, pipelines, version control, analytics, publishing workflows, and community infrastructure for indie game development.
Scope Design for Indie Games: How to Build Smaller Games That Still Feel Complete
A practical guide to scope design for indie games, showing how solo developers and small teams can reduce production risk without making their games feel empty.
Indie Game Development Reality Check: What Solo Developers Should Know Before Starting
A practical reality check for solo and small-team indie game developers, covering scope, time, money, production risk, marketing, and the discipline required to actually ship.
Introducing Plumego — A Standard-Library-First Go HTTP Toolkit
Plumego is a small, explicit, standard-library-first Go HTTP toolkit designed for maintainable services, ordinary net/http compatibility, and agent-friendly engineering workflows.
A Practical Tech Stack for Indie Developers — Simple, Reliable, and Built to Ship
A practical guide to choosing a calm, maintainable, and production-ready tech stack for indie developers building web tools, SaaS products, browser extensions, APIs, and small digital products.
Introducing Birdor JSON Lens — A Calm and Practical JSON Viewer for Developers
Birdor JSON Lens is a developer-friendly Chrome extension for viewing, formatting, validating, comparing, and inspecting JSON from web pages, selected text, pasted snippets, and local files.
The Binding Of Isaac Product Case Study: How Item Synergy, Transgression, And Replay Culture Built A Roguelike Institution
A practical product case study on The Binding of Isaac, covering roguelike structure, item synergy, shock identity, Flash constraints, Rebirth, expansions, streaming, modding, and why Edmund McMillen turned a small experiment into a durable product line.
Citizen Sleeper Product Case Study: How Jump Over The Age Turned Dice Into Precarious Science Fiction
A practical long-form product case study on Citizen Sleeper, covering tabletop-inspired dice economy, writing scope, episodic updates, labor precarity, UI restraint, Fellow Traveller positioning, and how a small narrative RPG became a sharp product.