About Session
Recent shifts in the game industry have shown us that small teams can make big games – Team Cherry (Hollow Knight), Aggro Crab and Landfall (PEAK), and semiworks (R.E.P.O), have outsold and outgrossed many of their AAA counterparts in 2025. The key to success for these indie studios? Having the right team composition and business acumen to capitalize on emergent opportunities for indie game development and self-publishing.
In this lecture, Kristian Roberts (CEO, Nordicity) guides aspiring and emergent game studios – and the partners who support them — through the skills sets and roles needed to create sustainable game studios in an increasingly accessible but competitive market. Kristian will explain how integrating marketing, community management, and business intelligence practices from the very formation of a studio can be the fundamental difference between success and failure.
