Your prototype is now ready. How do you present your game so that it gives you the best chance at successfully finding a publisher? What are the important things you should be sharing in the pitch? What should you focus on polishing in the prototype? This panel will discuss how you can catch the interest of publishers or crowdfunding participants and give your game the best chance of securing funding so you can complete it.

Building a community to get hyped about your game is probably the most important marketing tool an indie developer has in their arsenal. What is the best social media network to share your content? How should you build and manage your community? This panel will talk about how to market your game and use your community to help get other people hyped about your game.

Unless you’re a solo developer, you’ll be working with a team. When you’re in the middle of development and everything is a grind, how do you keep up your team’s morale and continue developing your game when “toughing it out” no longer works? How do you manage making sure that everyone is working hard without breathing down their necks? This panel talks about project and time management, mental health, and how to do remote working

Being an indie game developer isn’t exactly a glamorous job; it entails a lot of sacrifices and there’s no guarantee that your game will succeed. Where do you get funding? How do you push yourself to actually finish your game when you’re in a slump? This panel talks about the struggles of becoming an indie game developer, and how you can keep yourself and your team afloat despite the odds.

Now that you have a game idea, there are new branching paths before you. Should you write a design document? Should you jump straight into prototyping the game? Which game engine works best for you? This panel will be more design and programming centric and discuss all the things you need to think about with regards to prototyping your game.

Deciding what kind of a game to make can often be an overwhelming process. Should you focus on being creatively fulfilled, or make something that you believe will make lots of money? How do you choose a game genre or platform? This panel will have creators discuss how they initially conceptualized their successful games.