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Space Station Managing, Post Mortem

Posted by simoniker on from the grim-reaper-on-starship dept.

M0b1u5 writes "Mistaril is a small company with an intriguing product: Space Station Manager. It's a finalist for the Independent Games Festival and a follow-up game is planned: Luna Base Manager. However, the SSM project has a developer post-mortem which is well worth a read if you're thinking about launching a game development company, or are just interested in game development."

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  1. Profit!!! by Aelfy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The sweetest, juiciest quote of the whole article:

    The game found an appreciating target audience and managed to generate enough profit to let the company continue developing games.

    This goes to show, people are finding indie games, and done right they can generate enough profit to sustain a small development studio. They did have a little help from the IGF nomination, but still its an incredible achievement given they worked full time and risked it all.

    Is that a light I see at the end of the tunnel?