The Ultimate Indie Game Developer Resource List

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VIII. GETTING PAID

ECommerce
Avangate
BMT Micro
Charge
eJunkie
eSellerate (Digital River)
Fast Spring
Gate2shop
Google Checkout
IndieGamer Forums: Which ECommerce Service Should I Use?
Kagi
MoPay - mobile payments
PayPal
Plimus
RegNow (Digital River)
ShareIt (Digital River)
Swreg (Digital River)
Tapjoy - monetization tool for app developers (mobile)
TryMedia

Offer-Type & In-Game Monetary Services
No Cash Games - a trial pay-like portal using indie games as "freebie's"; indie's get paid for adding their game to the portal while visitors get their game for free
Open Candy - software network that enables software developers to distribute their software and earn money in the process (ex/ download google toolbar option before your game installs)
Super Rewards - monetize your apps and games
Trial Pay - place targeted promotions around your game or software; use offer-based payments, dealspot, or direct payments

Subscription Managers
aMember Professional - $199.95 ($179.95 sale price)
Easy Member Pro - $297 (April sale $97)
Magic Affiliate - affiliation plugin for Wordpress; $79 USD
Magic Members - member subscription service for Wordpress; $97 USD
PHP-SecureArea - $65; with installation $95
PPSD2 - member management and content delivery; $499 and up or if hosted $199 setup + $49/mo fee
s2Member Pro - member subscription service; $69USD single license OR $129 unlimited license; FREE version available
WishList Member - for Wordpress; $97 single site OR $297 multi-site license
WP e-commerce - FREE e-commerce/shopping cart plug-in for Wordpress
WP-Member - member subscription service for Wordpress; $29.99 (normally $39.99 USD)

Miscellaneous
Wordpress Donations Cloud - FREE

Portals
See Affiliation below.

Ads
See Marketing below.

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IX. MARKETING

Ads
BidSystem Ad Marketplace - used for Super Rewards, an in-game monetizing and ad system
Buy Sell Ads
Game Advertising Online
Google Adsense - display ads on your site
Google Adwords - place ads in other sites
Mochi Ads
OpenX - Optimize all your ad revenue channels—exclusive, guaranteed, & non-guaranteed—in one place
Project Wonderful

Business Cards
Printing for Less - business cards and other services
Vista Print

Review Sites
Bytejacker - game review site for any downloadable games
Bytten
Casual Gamer Chick
Cosmos Gaming
DIY Gamer
Eurogamer
Game Banshee - specializes in RPGs
Game Set Watch
Games First
Game Giveaway of the Day - Give your game away for free for 1 day and receive feedback
Game Tunnel
Game Zebo
iGame Radio - podcast reviews
Indie DB
Indie Game Reviewer
Indie Pub Games
Jay Is Games
Metacritic
Pixel Prospector
Play This Thing
TIGdb
Uziana

News Sites
Anime News Network - also covers video games like Visual Novels
DIY Gamer
Gamasutra
GameProducer.net
Games Industry
Indie Games: The Web Blog
Joystiq
Kotaku
Siliconera
Slashdot

Indie Game Dev Websites
Game Dev
Indie Gamer
TigSource

Magazines
Casual Connect Magazine Archive - FREE access to issues; also an event - see Contests & Events below
Game Developer Magazine - tends to cover more popular indie titles
Indie Game Magazine

Newsletters
Aweber - $19/mo and up OR subscribe by volume
Constant Contact - $15/mo and up depending on subscriber volume
iContact - $9.95/mo and up depending on subscriber volume
Mad Mimi - FREE for the first 100, otherwise it is $8/mo and up depending on subscriber volume
Mail Chimp - FREE for up to 12,000 emails/mo. Monthly and Pay As You Go Plans available for a price.
Your Mailing List Provider (YMLP) - FREE up to 1,000 contacts, Pro $3.75/mo and Pro Plus $5/mo

Marketing Services & Softwares
Gameleon - online network hub for the videogame press
Game Press
Game Producer Insider - must purchase membership to attain press release service; $150 one-time fee OR $15/mo for 1 year (total $180)
Robosoft - submit PAD files automatically
PromoSoft - automatically submits to sites; $95/yr subscription or $295 once in a lifetime payment
Software Submit - submit PAD files automatically
VGSmart - contact Joseph (aka Terin) at least 2 MONTHS or EARLIER before your game's release

Social Sites & Blogging
Blogger
Facebook
Live Journal
Posterous - submit news once and you submit it everywhere; registration needed; FREE
Twitter
Wordpress

Contests & Events
Casual Connect - events occur in Europe and in the US; online magazine also available here
Developer Conference (UK)
Experimental Gameplay Project - indie devs running a friendly competition each month - make a game based on the month's theme, and don't spend more than 7 days
Flash Gaming Summit
Independent Games Festival

Video Submissions
Vimeo
YouTube

Charity
Humble Bundle - indie games bundled together for charity

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X. AFFILIATION


Indie Affiliation List
IndieGamer Forum: Game Developer Affiliate List

Portals
5 Cup - list your game and demo for FREE (April 2011 - submit page wasn't working)
Alawar - also publishes and markets
Amazon - must submit games to Oberon
AOL Games - - must submit games to Oberon
Apple (Mac)
Arcade Town
Arkadium
BD Studio Games
Big Fish Games
Boonty
Chillingo - app publisher
Coffeebreak Arcade
Desura
Digital Entanglement - indie review site
Direct2Drive - Steam-like service
DLsite - Japanese-English download portal !Adult Material included!
eGames
Free Arcade
Game Account
Game Desire
Game Duell
Game House (partnered with Real Arcade)
Game Maker Games - portal specifically for posting Game Maker-made games
Games.com (formerly AOL Games)
Gamesville (Lycos)
Gamers Gate - Steam-like service
Game Tap
Game Trove (Indie driven)
Game Trust
MSN Game Zone
Get Games Go
Grab.com
Green Tube
Impulse Driven - Steam-like service
Indie City - portal for indie games
Indievania - indie portal; 100% of the cost of the game goes to the developer
iWin
iWon
Jigzone
Kawa Games
KewlBox
King.com (Midas Player)
Kongregate - focuses on online games (MMOs, mobile, FB games, etc); will pay you 50% of ad revenue; more info here
LGDB (Linux)
Logler
Mac GameStore (Mac)
Mad Win
Manifesto Games (Indie specific, run by Costikyan)
MiniClip (Flash games)
Money Gaming
MSN Game Zone
Mumbo Jumbo
My Lost Games
My Way Games
The New Arcade
Oberon Games - submit games here
PBM Cube
Pixel Prospector - indie game portal of free games
Play First
Play Green House (Indie specific, run by PennyArcade)
Playism - indie games portal from Japanese developers
Play Sushi
Pogo
PopCap
Real Arcade (partnered with GameHouse)
Reflexive
Retro Remakes - freeware indie portal and review site of retro/classic games; review archive may be found here
RPGmaker - portal for free RPG games; also includes dev tutorials
Runescape
Sandboxer
Sheep Arcade
Shockwave
Show Me The Games (Indie driven, run by cliffski of Positech)
Skill Jam
Slingo
Sofotex - directory
Steam Powered - try Greenlight if your game was bypassed in normal submission process
Strategy First
TIGdb - indie portal of free and commercial indie games
Try Games
Tucows - Submission page here
Uproar
Wild Tangent Games
WinSite - they list commercial demo's
World Winner
Yahoo! Games - must submit games to Oberon
Zylom

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XI. MERCHANDISING

Biz Replication - disc manufacturer
CafePress
Canada Disc - must contact for prices
CD Oasis
CD-Ship
Create Space - book self-publishing
Comixpress - comic book publisher
CustomDropShipper
Disc Makers
iUniverse - book self-publishing
Ka-Blam - comic book publisher along with other similar products
Lulu
Multishape CD-ROM
Printing for Less - business cards and other services
Pubit! - self-publish ebooks through Barnes & Noble
Smashwords - ebook distributor for indie authors and publishers
SpreadShirt
SwiftCD (Digital River)
xLibris - book self-publishing
Zazzle

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[Sylux]

You oughta put newgrounds in there

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The reason why I didn't put newgrounds is that it is mostly a site for free games. The purpose of the list is to provide resources for indies who are interested in selling their games. Though newgrounds may be a nice site to send out a free remixed version of a commercial game, the audience skews more towards those who are there for free games and are generally not the buying type.

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