Album art for episode featuring a sketch of a conversion funnel for selling indie games

Making Lexilotl, my latest game which is a crossword puzzle run where you get a clue and three tries to solve a puzzle and can keep going until your tries run out. I had planned on making ad supported right away but ran into a roadblock and went a different way. Here's the story of that and some of my other explorations in making money by making games. Also, a negative comment on one of the Lexilotl announcement videos gave the the idea to explore this topic.


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Polytechnicast - Understanding An Artist and Indie Game Developer's Business Rob Stenzinger