Alex Turner, Yogscast editor and founder of Tiny Teams
H
ow does a lone developer get their game noticed in a saturated marketplace? For many, any offer of a leg up is welcome. Enter the Tiny Teams Steam festival, which ran for its third consecutive year in August, and provides just that. Organised by the indie publishing arm of the Yogscast streaming network, it showcases games created by individuals and micro-studios (defined here as a core team of five or fewer). And it’s becoming increasingly attractive for those who need a boost. This year, nearly 1,000 games were submitted for consideration, over four times last year’s tally, which means that selecting which titles to include has become a lot of work for Tiny Teams founder
Alex
Turner.
“We need to figure out a way to make it more manageable from our side,” he says, “without me having to sit and play games for 16 hours.”