Warren Smith: Indie Game Developer

Hey Imgur community, meet Warren Smith. Warren is a devoted family man, military veteran of the US Air Force, and an independent game developer (i.e. “indie dev"). While deployed, he used his free time to teach himself game development, and created “Dark Flame”.

Warren’s indie game Dark Flame is a beautiful 2D ARPG (Action Role Playing Game), inspired by retro greats like “Castlevania”. He began building a custom engine for Dark Flame in June 2013, investing over $5500 of his personal money into this amazing project.

In November 2015, Warren launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds he needed to focus on Dark Flame full-time. Unfortunately, though he had an awesome game concept, he didn’t have enough community support to help him reach his crowdfunding goal.

Warren’s not alone: about 70% of indie game Kickstarter projects fail, usually because those developers haven't built large enough communities for their indie games

We discovered Warren, and donated our time to teach him how to build a real audience for Dark Flame.

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You’ll be happy to know that, since working with us, Warren has gone on to generate over $200 a month on his Patreon campaign (https://www.patreon.com/BorishDugdum), and recently signed a publishing deal! Visit his Patreon site for exclusive early access to Dark Flame’s demo.

We finally got to meet Warren in person at the Indie Game Village during OrlandoiX 2016. Later that day, Dark Flame won an award for “Best Gameplay Mechanic” (Thanks to https://twitter.com/paragonyxllc for the awards photo).

Warren certainly deserves all the credit for the tremendous effort he’s put into making Dark Flame: a quality indie game. We’re glad he decided to continue developing Dark Flame, and we’re humbled for the opportunity to work with him.

Who are we? We’re just your friendly neighborhood indie game twins, and want to connect, support, and grow the global indie game community. We hope this post helps. Please upvote or share this album if you think it will be helpful to someone else. THANKS!