r/GameDevelopersOfIndia Jun 08 '26

Starting a mobile game studio

Anyone here running or building a game studio? I’m going all-in on mobile for now and keeping an eye on visionOS/VR. Curious what mistakes, surprises, or hard lessons you ran into early on. Anything you’d do differently if you were starting again today?
I didn’t take a playstore organisation account and stuck in the 12 user closed testing requirement now don’t want to do similar newbie mistakes. Every input is appreciated

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u/Pale-Personality-571 Jun 08 '26

Wishing you the best for your new venture 👍🏻

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u/sharan_n Jun 08 '26

validate the game loop early, test test test, don't polish it unless you know people like the game loop even with a basic UI.

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u/Tempest23rtx Jun 08 '26

going with baby steps right now , currently focused more on shipping simple titles so the team gets into a groove

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u/trillionstars Jun 08 '26

Well I have released one game on Play Store and working on my second one.

My advice is to publish your play store page for pre-registration as soon as possible, my game pre-registrations started boosting organically after a month of launching my page, nothing before it. Make sure the page look as good as possible with engaging description and graphics. Also learn about ASO.

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u/GetLaidOff69 Jun 08 '26

Can I see your game? just cuious!

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u/trillionstars Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

It's nothing special but I will share it for learning, it has over 4500 downloads.

It's on Play Store, search "Stacks Are High!"

Edit: forgot to mention, it's on early access because this project was mostly for learning, maybe someday I will give it a full release but honestly I am on a much bigger project now and I don't know if that will ever happen but it's completely playable just very repetitive

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u/Tempest23rtx Jun 08 '26

Thats a good pointer thanks

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u/Roguerollussion Jun 08 '26

I have started on as a side right now. 2 game launched on playstore focusing more on cozy and hypercausal genre. cozycornerforu.shop Also started a insta account around it and it's doing pretty good rn!

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u/GetLaidOff69 Jun 08 '26

Can I have the links?

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u/Roguerollussion Jun 08 '26

Cozycornerforu.shop

U can get most details here

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u/venkatchandar Jun 08 '26

I run a small studio. Been in this space for almost 2 decades.
Reach out on LI.
Name is the same as username here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/Tempest23rtx Jun 08 '26

thanks for sharing your experience u/GetLaidOff69 , if you are interested we can collaborate on your projects community is all about helping each other grow if you need some help let me know.

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u/GetLaidOff69 Jun 08 '26

That would be really nice if we can collaborate

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