Gamecareerguide has posted a new Ask the Experts feature post: Ask the Experts: Console vs. PC Development[^] that I find very informative for anyone who wants to start developing indie games.

Consoles might be a nice platform to develop for, when it comes to possible profits, but as Jill Duffy points out, it’s usually alot more expensive to develop for them. In addition, you need to get access to the development ki, which means another money sink AND a meeting with the company making the console; Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft.

Our [Kybernesis] games will be made primarily on PC, and maybe ported to consoles when we can afford it. Cause I have the same philosophy as the panelists mentioned in the feature points out in the end. Keep costs to the minimum… At least in the start-up phase!

Gamasutra has also posted a Postmortem: How Puzzle Quest Saved Infinite Interactive[^] which gives some very good insights into developing Indie games, specifically a casual puzzle game. But their experiences could very well fit any kind of Indie developed game.

Okay. So I decided to start my own blog.

You see, I’ve been dabbling with starting up an Indie Gamedeveloper company for half a year now, with a concrete game idea and everything.. Actually, several game ideas! I even got 2 modelers and 2 artists on my team to get the graphics done. Though that leaves only me as the programmer, eeep!

But I persevere. I’m looking into DX Studio these days, to see if it fits with my gamedev-goals. and I really like what I have seen so far, but more delving into that later. This is just a hello world post, so I can see how this blog-thingie works

Anyways, if you’ve stumbled over this blog for some reason and are disappointed din the lack of content, don’t fret. I will get this up and going in no-time and then I will blog about all my experience in starting up an Indie Gamdev Company from scratch. And I will try out tools like DX Studio, Torque, Endorphin and more in the process.

Oh and all input is heartily welcome of course!