I held an Indie Startup for Dummies seminar at the Assembly’08 event, together with Jani Kahrama.
Secret Exit began its game development activities in early 2007 with the aspirations to become an income-funded independent game studio. The seminar covers the first 18 months of the company, from bold plans to unfortunate setbacks to a mountain of paperwork up till today: five guys, a bit of funding and a registered console developer status.
PDF slides – WARNING: If you feel like any “advice” is given in these slides, please note that’s very much time-sensitive, so probably not relevant today. You may find some interesting anecdotes though.