Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer

Re:Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer by geminiradio on Saturday August 08, 2015 @07:30PM (#10028961)

I've been out of the mainstream industry for 7 years now, but I made 6 figures when I was working with Steven Spielberg at Electronic Arts in Los Angeles. Before that, when I was at ION Storm in Austin, Texas, I wasn't that far from it. I'm usually in a lead designer / creative director position, but a really solid, senior programmer or producer earns about that much, too.

Gamasutra and GDC put together a salary survey every year. I think that's public? I would search for it.

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Re:Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer by PythonicAlpha on Saturday August 08, 2015 @07:59PM (#10029010)

Thanks for the info! Currently, I never worked in the gaming industry and I believe not many big studies are located in Germany. There are some online game studies in Germany, though, but I think, they pay a lot less than the big AAA studios.

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Re:Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer by ido on Sunday August 09, 2015 @03:55AM (#10029818)

There are loads of game studios in Germany, mostly smaller ones and not AAA. In general in the past few years there has been a massive shift away from AAA & huge teams.

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