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The Making of Cat Fu Part 1: A Character Study

Designing characters can be tough. Here are three tips for creating compelling characters that tell a story and show emotion.

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One-Man VR Game Development with CAT Interstellar

Hear from Taylor Loper of Ionized Games on how he got into VR game development and what it’s like to be a one-man dev team.

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VR Interview

Create a 3D mobile experience that will really stand out and show off the power of today’s mobile devices.

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Design

Create

Build

Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Got a great idea for a game or character? Make it real. Get it out of your head and onto a digital canvas to develop and share with others.

Start organizing your ideas in the Game Design document. Create concept art for your characters and environments. Begin developing your story.

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Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

From your concept art and model sheets, use 3D tools to bring your character to life. First, create a 3D model. Then texture, rig, and animate it before bringing it into your game engine.

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Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Bring all your characters and environments together, lay out your levels, and build great gameplay. Test your game to make sure it’s fun. Then, publish it where people can find and play it.

Find out more

Indie Game Makers

Start making your game today

Design

Got a great idea for a game or character? Make it real. Get it out of your head and onto a digital canvas to develop and share with others.

Start organizing your ideas in the Game Design document. Create concept art for your characters and environments. Begin developing your story.

Find out more
Create

From your concept art and model sheets, use 3D tools to bring your character to life. First, create a 3D model. Then texture, rig, and animate it before bringing it into your game engine.

Find out more
Build

Bring all your characters and environments together, lay out your levels, and build great gameplay. Test your game to make sure it’s fun. Then, publish it where people can find and play it.

Find out more

Get inspired by other indie game makers

Barking Mouse Studio

Its first game is a winner—of awards

When they first got started, Danielle Swank and Jim Fleming didn’t know what making a game would be like. But they took a risk, discovered support in the community, and found success with Lost Toys.

Indie game maker Barking Mouse Studio is an indie game development success story

Images courtesy of Barking Mouse Studio

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Digital Extremes

Indie attitude goes AAA

A hybrid ninja/sci-fi shooter game with RPG elements that is free to play? That’s Warframe. How did Digital Extremes break industry trends to build a AAA-style game on an indie budget? By building a great game and working directly with the player community.

Images courtesy of Digital Extremes

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Subatomic Studios

Following up on indie gaming success

Subatomic Studios was one of the first indie game makers to score a hit on iOS with the tower defense game Fieldrunners. For an encore, they needed something familiar, but that brought new gameplay and visuals to the franchise. Fieldrunners 2 does just that.