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I saw his talk on GDC (Game Developers Conference) about this exact topic - it made it to my bookmarks list! It's called Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Softwar

• markus_zhang 5y ago
  Yeah he is really good at game development but he is even better at game business handling than most of the people out there (including me). I think he also shared some of the revenue numbers and you can see they are good, but never good enough for retirement. That's the best an average indie developer can get IMHO.
  • muzani 5y ago
    I buy all the Spiderweb games but rarely finish any. He's sadly top 5% though with an incredible work ethic and great games. Most won't be able to make a living off the craft.
    • markus_zhang 5y ago
      I do the same. Actually I only started playing the first game. I guess most Indie developers will go out of the business after or even before the first release, so sad :(