Do it: make games yourself

Lindsay Grace makes the case for learning to make video games, all by yourself.

Roberta and Ken Williams made Mystery House at the kitchen table, with Ken developing the game from sketches Roberta made. Steve Wozniak developed one of the first designs for the arcade classic Breakout in four days, flying solo.

A brief examination of some of the advantages of truly independent development may prove a plausible approach to building specific types of outlier games. What is a truly independent developer? One person designing and building a game.

The creative freedom afforded by this hands-on (if intimidating) approach is necessarily balanced against one's inventory of artistic and technical skills. But if you're going to bother, Grace writes, the time is now. [Game Career Guide]