Alyx Jones
Silver Script Games
The Game Awards Future Class, MCV 30 Under 30 and BAFTA Breakthrough Alyx Jones has worked in dialogue and audio across titles from Elden Ring and Arcane, to more recent releases of Still Wakes the Deep and Atomfall.
In 2022 Alyx founded indie studio Silver Script Games, to work on their debut game "The Quiet Things”, an autobiographical narrative game, created with the goal of opening conversations around taboo aspects of mental health, and experiences of abuse.
Alyx Jones is speaking at the following session/s
The Quiet Things – How I Made and Shipped my Passion Project
From having the rug pulled out from under my feet in the waves of layoffs, to funding and shipping my very first indie game, this session will look at how I started a company and we made The Quiet Things against a challenging backdrop. I’ll take you through my journey, from making the first prototype of the game for a University project, to raising £150k in funding through a mixture of grants, crowdfunding and bootstrapping. I’ll talk about the challenges and benefits of self publishing, and show a roadmap of what our budget and production really looked like, all the way to release.
While the talk doesn’t directly involve in depth discussion of the games’ content, it’s worth noting The Quiet Things deals with some challenging topics around childhood abuse.
Session Takeaway
- Funding options available to indie developers.
- Marketing a game with limited time and resources.
- A realistic picture of what it takes to ship an indie game.
- Managing self publishing as a small team.
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