How I started my indie games company as a side hustle
7"How I started my indie games company" A talk I gave at an event for final year Swansea University Computer Science Students. I talk about the journey of starting the indie games company Pill Bug Interactive. From selling and developing indie games on itchio, building a community and to launching games on Steam and Nintendo Switch™. What are the benefits and challenges of running an indie games company as a side hustle?
An apology and correction: In this video I say 'you can't make money on itch' - this is absolutely not true. We love itch.io and will always sell our games there. I should have said 'I couldn't make enough money on itch alone'.
If you are thinking about studying Computer Science at University then check out Swansea https://www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci/ - we run events like this which give you a chance to think about what to do after university.
If you want to find out more about Pill Bug Interactive check out our website https://www.pillbug.zone/.