How to Publish a Game is here! All of sudden, anyone can publish (even me). But there are a lot of skills you need to publish: sales, marketing, distribution, finance… In this world of digital distribution, anyone...

Thank you for your feedback. You’ve voted in your, well, dozens, and there was a clear winner. With 70% of the vote (and more if I include all the comments), my ebook will look like this: Well,...

Regular readers will know that I am about to publish my ebook, a 200 page guide called How to Publish a Game. It’s due out on Tuesday 25th May. It will mark a transition for GAMESbrief. I’ve...

I plan to launch my book “How to Publish a Game” next Tuesday (25th May). But I can’t decide on a cover for it. My talented designer Scott Maclean has come up with five different designs. (Actually,...

I am a big fan of Steve Blank. He teaches entrepreneurship at Berkeley and Stanford and wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany. In his most recent blog post, he attempts to answer the question: “Should an entrepreneur...

I’ve been helping a lot of developers with their self-publishing strategy and I’ve discovered that there is one thought process that can make a huge difference to how developers (of all levels) think. Conventional wisdom says that...

I was at the Games Gone Wild event in London yesterday (good attendees, format needs work). I heard a fundamental misconception about virtual goods and entertainment purchases repeated a couple of times. “Consumers who enjoy playing free...