>Find a non-games programming job, and do game development on your free time. Does the startup model as touted here all day not apply so well to game developme

>Find a non-games programming job, and do game development on your free time. Does the startup model as touted here all day not apply so well to game development? I was under the impression that the indie smash hits like braid were generally made by small startups? A lot of it probably depends on how much art you need I guess. If you can get away with putting abstract, algorithmically generated textures on everything, that's gonna shed a lot of man hours.