
Designed in just a few weeks, this $5 indie game about digging a hole has journeyed to the centre of Steam’s top sellers chart
Many aspects of game development are variable and subjective, but there is one universal truth: games take ages to make. The average turnaround for a big-budget video game used to be four years, but lately that has grown to five, maybe even six years as games have ballooned in size, budget and visual complexity. Even…