indie games – Raph's Website

The FTC imposes a fine on a board game creator who failed to deliver their Kickstarter. Developers publicly wring their hands about the reports of high refund rates on Steam. Everyone looks to VR...

https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/06/11/some-thoughts/

Yesterday Greg Costikyan and I did an on-stage conversation at Indiecade about the economics of the indie market. It was pretty wide-ranging, with discussions of Rochdale cooperatives, performing...

https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/10/13/gamasutra-on-the-indie-economics-talk/

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the financial future of developers. The supply chain for creative work To go back a ways, back in 2006 I suggested that you could look at the winding path ...

https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/05/07/the-financial-future-of-game-developers/

Got this in the mail, and thought some of you might be interested! The third annual Indie Game Challenge is now open for entries! Don’t miss your chance to showcase your skills and catapult you...

https://www.raphkoster.com/2011/08/19/indie-game-challenge-3/

On Metaplace there was a puzzle game I designed called Wheelwright. One of our users, known as Obo there but as oscan on Kongregate, just released a game called Trinhex on Kongregate that is insp...

https://www.raphkoster.com/2010/06/10/trinhex/