The Austin Game Conference has emerged as one of the primary conferences for game designers, developers, and entrepreneurs in North America. This year, more than 1400 professionals from over 350 companies attended the conference to discuss the technical and business challenges that face today’s game industry.
Mobile games is probably the last bastion for the one-man shop that we used to see from the late 70s to mid 80s. These guys could hack in their bedroom and make hundreds of thousands of dollars if there game was a hit. The great book “Hackers” by Steven Levy tells about this.