"We want to give others the same chance we had": When indiedevelopers become money capitalists.

The business of independent game development is now well understood to be highly precarious and risky (Whitson 2019; Keogh 2019).The rapid growth of distribution and development platforms have dramatically grown the number of developers working in a self-funded and entrepreneurial way in the hope of one day having the financial success that will bring with it some amount of future sustainability (Whitson et al. 2021).But at the same time, the chances of success deteriorate as more and more studios strive to have their game stand out from the crowd.In 2022, on Valve's Steam platform alone, one game was released every 50 minutes (Statista 2022).