How To Be an Indie Game Developer: - Make a game, release it How To Stop Being an Indie Game Developer: - Procrastinate, ever - Let the marketing "take care

How To Be an Indie Game Developer: - Make a game, release it How To Stop Being an Indie Game Developer: - Procrastinate, ever - Let the marketing "take care of itself" - Have poor version control, then "take a break" - Finish only one game, ever - Let someone else handle your finances and shield you from the sense of urgency you should feel as you approach the end of your runway without taking off - Fail to realize that games are mostly a hit-based market, and plan accordingly - Sell your one non-hit game for 99¢ - Never update your one game Anyway, an anecdote is just useless data with a sample size of one, but I'm pretty sure I read this story plenty of times before I went and lived it myself. Still, in my case it's kind of nice that Blizzard left my name in the Diablo 3 credits. I can pretend I spent the past year being a part of something productive!