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The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry

Session Name: Game Career Seminar: How the Hell do You Make Money!?
Speaker(s): Megan Fox, Evva Karr, Robert Podgorski, Brandon Sheffield, Mike Tucker, Justin Woodward
Company Name(s): Glass Bottom Games, Glitch, Blackmoon Design, Necrosoft Games, Bitmap Bureau, Interabang Entertainment
Track / Format: Game Career Seminar

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Overview: There were more than 10,000 games released on steam alone in 2020. With numbers like that it is incredibly difficult to make money exclusively on sales, and the idea funding future projects with sales of prior games becomes ever more fantastical. Unless you wind up with a hit on your hands, it's incredibly difficult to survive as an independent game developer. This curated panel will discuss and share a wide variety of approaches to surviving and occasionally thriving in the game space even without having a major hit. We'll discuss platform buyouts, porting games to unusual paces, releasing in new markets, bringing games to vintage platforms, grants, crowdfunding, bundles, you name it, we're talking about it.

Game Developers Conference 2021

Megan Fox

Glass Bottom Games

Evva Karr

Glitch

Robert Podgorski

Blackmoon Design

Brandon Sheffield

Necrosoft Games

Mike Tucker

Bitmap Bureau

Justin Woodward

Interabang Entertainment

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Game Career Seminar

Game Career / Education