{"id":633815,"date":"2010-01-18T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/18\/searching-for-gold-how-to-fund-your-indie-video-game\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:28:50","slug":"searching-for-gold-how-to-fund-your-indie-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/633815","title":{"rendered":"Searching for gold: how to fund your indie video game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Creating a game on your own is no easy task. Aside from making sure you have all the artistic and programming skills necessary—or that you can assemble a team to handle those responsibilities—there’s the ever-constant need for funding to make such a project a reality.<\/p>\n

Next to raising the necessary money to get a project off the ground, it’s comparatively easy to teach yourself how to create the elements of a game. And if you’ve got a workable demo or a finished product, you can shop it around or show it off at the Game Developers Conference in an effort to pique the interest of a publisher that will hopefully pick it up for distribution. But if you’re starting from scratch, getting someone to support nothing more than an idea is a hard sell, especially in this financial climate. <\/p>\n

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