Gamedev advice
Managing a Small Team
If you’ve finally decided to make your own indie game, there are a couple of things you may not have considered about working in, and managing, a small team. Your
5 Pitfalls of Indie Game Development
When making your own game, it can be easy to get caught up in the excitement – after all there are so many things to consider. What type of game
How to write an amazing indie gamedev blog
There's no doubt that a gamedev blog can be really useful in spreading the word about your indie game. Blogs can bring more traffic directly to your website. They're good
Four things you can do to market your game before you’ve even built it
The one thing you'll read everywhere when it comes to marketing your indie game: you need to start marketing your game as early as you possibly can. You might just
The importance of feedback, and making a change in the games industry
A few weeks ago we had Grant Allen and Loudon St Hill from Dlala Studios come in to talk to us about their experiences in the games industry. We were
Jack of all trades or master of none?
Kicking off the 2017/18 programme of talks, Frazer Merrick of Teaboy Games spoke to our new starters about his experience of coming to The Games Hub with a non-gaming background, and about
How to fund your indie game
Getting StartedIf you want to create your own video game, then one of the first questions you need to ask yourself is how you are going to fund it. Making
The five most important things about writing for the games industry
You might think that because you love writing and you love video games, a job as a writer in the games industry would be your dream come true. But writing
Gamification: game design isn’t just for computer games
You've just levelled up. You've won another badge. You've found the key, upgraded from a knife to a sword, and beaten the level boss – wow! This is the process
Game dev blogs to follow when starting out in games design
If you've already started out in indie games development, you're probably already aware of the bigger blogs like Gamasutra, Pocket Gamer, and Games Radar. But there are few other blogs