Jealousy may take shape when I look at my yearly wages compared to game developers’ wages lol but I will most likely never have a chance to work as a game designer/producer/product manager even though I think I may be qualified to do such things it all comes down to programming and lack there of… I take the latter position :( Damn dyslexia.

Nice Blog btw! If you ever need some RTS ideas feel free to send me an email :D

TGE

I think anyone who is doing their indie game development *alone* can be considered to be some kind of indie game producer. Especially if there’s no publisher involved in selling your game and you have made the business plans alone. I think *developer* to have more *programming* oriented viewpoint on games production. On the other hand *producers* usually fund & participate also in business issues. But – all indie game producers must know how to program (“lead by example”). It’s just something which they must manage.

So called *commercial game producers* rarely (read: never) touch in code. They handle management and business issues (and everything else mentioned for example in this blog).

Very, very, VERY rough conclusion:

Indie Game Developer ~= programming
Game Producer ~= business/management
Indie Game Producer ~= Indie Game Developer + Game Producer

Of course all this is just semantics… you can call yourself indie game developer or whatever you want and still be involved in biz decisions. And do marketing. And do everything else related.

Every team has their own exact way to define the ‘producer’ and ‘developer’ and that’s fine. I don’t think it’s so important. Much more important is to do a good job and get your game out. And sell a lot, of course ;)

I also think it’s good to make a small free game and to totally finish it. You’ll be surprised at how long it takes. Then keep increasing game size and complexity. Don’t start with a massive project, it’ll never get done.