Like many game developers, our friends, graduates of the educational program " Management of Game Projects ", faced the need to attract funding for their project.
While researching materials on this topic, they came across a series of articles created with the support of Epic Games, Mike Fatter. After evaluating the quality of the material and the potential benefit for the Russian-speaking community, the Rummy Games team decided to translate the article and post it on our resource.
Making a video game is a complex set of creative challenges.
You have already encountered some of them. You have completed programming courses, advanced in graphic or sound design. You may even have worked as a tester or have experience in localizing games. Maybe after years of working on an AAA project, you've finally become an independent indie developer. But if you have not previously studied the basics of finance, have never faced attracting investments in your career, or another specialist did it for you, you are most likely not ready to deal with important issues.
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