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Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way
GDC Festival of Gaming · Oct 8, 2018 · 59m 47s
What this video covers
Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software gives a GDC 2018 retrospective on surviving as an indie game maker since 1994, from shareware days through Steam. It covers business realities, costs and sustaining a comfortable living without chasing riches.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
HN keeps recommending it as an inspirational, funny talk on running a long-lived indie studio and what Steam provides for its 30% cut.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb Software have an awesome retrospective on his games and company at GDC 2018”
“gave an awesome retrospective on 24 years of creating old-school-style fantasy RPGs at GDC 2018”
“his latest GDC talk is fantastic (and a better version of this blog post)”