At GDC 2015 TinyBuild staffer and one-time Gamasutra editor Mike Rose breaks down sales data for indie games across various platforms to try and shed light on the state of the market now vs. in 2009. ...

"My goal is not to go into a lengthy 'Which engine should I use?' or 'Should I write an Engine?' debate here and will jump right into it." ...

Diary of a game that won't happen: "I have been mentioning a certain RPG on and off for the past 15 or so months and have been working on it for longer than that, but it apparently just wasn't meant to be." ...

The challenges of limited resources: "Effectively, there was only 'one thing going on' within the Apple II at any given time. There was nothing to hand anything off to." ...

"Angry Birds is in my mind the most famous mobile game to leverage comic strips as cutscenes. I think they did a memorable job. I wanted to reproduce that effect in Ludo's Quest." ...

"Many developers solve their problems by putting together a gigantic lego-stack of black-boxed rendering, physics and A.I./Navigation technology. I'm going to suggest that there are alternatives to this approach." ...

Paul Kilduff-Taylor: "It didn't seem to me that, in codifying and extolling a form of criticism which was already taking place, I would be doing anything controversial." ...

'You kill lots of random monsters in every RPG and the consequences for this are never addressed. What if they were? I made a battle system where you could talk to foes and convince them not to fight' ...

"There's a word I want to talk about. It's vague, it's nasty, and it's the reason why we have so many failed indie studios: Success." ...

'For me, it's the thoughtful design that makes Downwell stand out,' says Santana Mishra. 'On the surface it might appear quite simple, but you quickly realize it's a case of elegance rather than simplicity.' ...