
IndieGameBusiness®
Candid conversations with veterans of all aspects of the business side of games. We firmly believe that great games from all developers need the support they deserve to succeed. This podcast exists to provide that support.
IndieGameBusiness® is produced by The Powell Group, a video game consulting firm specializing in business development, marketing, and licensing. Our CEO has been in the industry for 20 years and closed countless publishing and licensing deals. The Powell Group monitors over 3,500 game developers and 750+ publishers.
Latest episodes

Nov 19, 2021 • 46min
How To Be FULLY Prepared For Your Next Publisher Meeting - Part 1
Are you thinking about meeting with a publisher or have you met with one already? Jay has some tips and tricks for you and a list of things YOU SHOULD KNOW.
Get your questions about publishers ANSWERED TODAY!
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 10min
How to Organize Your Kickstarter Campaign Especially With a Large Group With Francesca Carletto-Leon
Let's discuss Kickstarter campaigns with Francesca!
-The Cartomancy Anthology project, a collection of 22 games created by development teams all over the world.
-Current Kickstarter campaign and the logistics of making this huge project possible.
-Games anthologies and large-scale collections of games. Finding more community-centered ways to support independent game making and make experimental work possible.
facebook.com/CartomancyGame
instagram.com/cartomancygame/
twitter.com/ceschiii
twitter.com/CartomancyGame
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Oct 29, 2021 • 1h 18min
Warning Signs That You Are Signing Up With A Shady Publisher
Jay and Indie talk about shady publishers and what red flags you should look for!
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 1min
The Road to the System Shock TV Mini-Series with Larry Kuperman from Nightdive Studios
From video games to TV, the list of games to TV shows is growing exponentially!
We have Larry Kuperman, Director of Nightdrive studios with us today and we are discussing the System Shock TV Mini-Series.
https://twitter.com/larrykuperman
https://www.nightdivestudios.com/
https://twitter.com/NightDiveStudio
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Oct 8, 2021 • 1h 4min
Why We Are Trying a 4 Day Work Week with John Cooney from Armor Games
Today we are hanging out with John Cooney twitter.com/jmtb02 from Armor Games discussing why they went to a 4 day work week.
We are going to dig deep into this and discussing a variety of things.
- Why a small indie publishing team would choose to move to a four-day workweek. We researched several different models, we conducted extensive research (which was challenging given how little there was especially for smaller teams)
- Some of the challenges we've had setting up this model. Not a lot of frameworks for how this should go, so we had to figure it out as we went. We had a LOT of questions we needed to solve (how does part-time work? Are we breaking the law for full-time workers? How does vacation work?). And of course, we had to figure out how to tell the team, and what to do if things went horribly wrong (or wonderfully right)
- The outcomes so far, the reception, and what our employees said they were going to be doing with their time (its pretty cool)
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 10min
The Steps Needed to Become a Full Time Indie Dev
We are talking with Tim Beaudet twitter.com/timbeaudet from Fyre Bytes www.fyregames.com about his journey to becoming a full-time indie developer.
Topics of discussion today are:
1. The Indie Dream.
2. What are the Risks?
3. How He Prepared?
4. Why Time is a Cost
5. How Live Streaming Helped Him
Please share the stream with your friends!
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Aug 20, 2021 • 1h 15min
Game Development and Running a Game Studio with Damon Slye from Mad Otter Games
Today we are talking with Damon Slye from Mad Otter Studios. They have the long running MMO, Villagers and Heroes which has been around for quite some time!
Want to know a bit more about Damon? Here's what he had to say.
"I've been running Mad Otter Games since 2007, and before that I cofounded Dynamix in 1983. Currently, we publish a cross-platform MMO, Villagers & Heroes. In the past, I was involved in the development of many games and the technology to support them."
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 18min
What Publishers Want To See At A Conference Meeting
We welcome leaders from Mastiff, Fundamentally Games, Those Awesome Guys, and Neon Doctrine. They're going to be telling you what they want to see when you meet with them at a conference! #gamedevelopment #gameindustry #indiedev
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie

Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 17min
How Indie Game Developers Can Secure Funding For Their Projects.
We sit down with the Director of Business Development from GlobalTopRound, Pontus Mahler to discuss getting funding for your indie game.
We will cover topics such as:
1. How developers can make their funding presentations more appealing to investors
2. How developers can execute successfully to secure funding
3. How developers can use their funds to complete their projects
4. How to proceed next with publishing
You can find Pontus on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pontusmah...
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness

Jul 2, 2021 • 1h 14min
Curved Space's marketing journey from self published to signing with Maximum Games
Today we are talking with Andrew Czarnietzki from Only By Midnight twitter.com/onlybymidnight about their journey into publishing.
We will be discussing:
- Their original marketing plan (including capital raised for paid marketing)
- Marketing failure
- Pivot to a publishing model
- Finding the right publisher (including turning down a deal) and signing with Maximum Games
To learn more about the show or our online business matchmaking events for indie developers visit: indiegame.business
Indie Game Business is produced by The Powell Group: powellgroupconsulting.com
Watch the official live stream: twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness
Watch Indie's live stream: twitch.tv/INDIE
Join the Indie Game Business Discord: discord.gg/indiegamebusiness
The Twitters to follow -
Indie Game Business: twitter.com/BusinessIndie
Powell Group Consulting: twitter.com/PowellGrp
Jay: twitter.com/Powell_Jay
INDIE: twitter.com/TheRealIndie
Donate to Extra Life with our link: extra-life.org/participant/IndieGameBusiness
Join the Indie Game Business Extra Life Team: extra-life.org/team/indiegamebusiness