Developer Central | Indie Games Developer

Submit your game to IGD

General Website & Magazine Coverage

Our website and magazine coverage is completely free for Indie Games (with the exception of additional marketing support, advertisements and printed materials for campaign options), but please note there may be a long queue for free submissions.  If your game is in the early stages of development, please wait until it’s more advanced before submitting. In the meantime, you can join our community groups to help build up a following and be seen by potential publishers as your game progresses further.  If your game is further along, please read on …

We recognize the importance of timing, whether you’re building wishlists, gaining followers, preparing marketing strategies ahead of a launch, or managing time-sensitive campaigns like Kickstarter. That’s why, in addition to our free coverage, we’ve developed a Priority Package to fast track your game onto our website. This package allow us to dedicate the additional time and effort needed to deliver coverage within a specified timeframe  (ideal for game launches or crowdfunding campaigns).  We may also upgrade your slot based on availability for free!

Our digital version of our magazine will always remain free upon relaunch, and we’ll continue to manage and maintain our communities at no cost to support you.

We believe in full transparency with our packages by providing clear, upfront pricing. This way, you know the costs right away without needing to ask, saving valuable time for both you and us.

Website Packages

Standard

Free
  • Queue System
  • Featured Games (1 Month)
  • Game Page Setup
  • Featured Showcase
  • Game Showcase
  • Game Trailer / Gameplay Video
  • Game Screenshots (5)
  • Launch or Crowdfunding News
  • Game Key Giveaway
  • Sidebar Banners
  • Basic + Organic Marketing

Priority

£30 £15
  • Prority (3-5 days)*
  • Featured Games (1 Month)
  • Game Page Setup
  • Featured Showcase
  • Extended Game Showcase
  • Game Trailer / Gameplay Video
  • Game Screenshots (10)
  • Launch or Crowdfunding News
  • Game Key Giveaway
  • 1 Month Sidebar Banners
  • Basic + Organic Marketing

Featured

£60
  • Prority (3-5 days)*
  • Featured Games (1 Month)
  • Game Page Setup
  • Featured Showcase
  • Extended Game Showcase
  • Game Trailer / Gameplay Video
  • Game Screenshots (10)
  • Launch or Crowdfunding News
  • Game Key Giveaway
  • 2 Months Sidebar Banners
  • Basic + Organic Marketing

*Subject to having a press kit and slot availability.  Featured Showcases are now supported by our team!  If we like your game we will feature the showcase.
Featured Showcases are also randomly selected each time someone visits our front page and are included within their own category pages.

Magazine Campaign Packages

If you have a greater marketing budget (especially after a successful crowdfunding campaign) to keep your game focused for a longer duration and you would like to benefit from one of our three campaign packages that includes marketing, get in touch. 

Campaign Boost

£2200
  • Scheduled Campaign
  • Featured Website Package
  • Featured Games (3 Months)
  • Magazine Feature by Default
  • 2 x Full Size Advert + 1 x A2 Poster
  • 12 Months FP + Sidebar Banners
  • Marketing Package
  • 9 copies of Magazine Priority Dispatched + 10 Posters in Tube

Campaign Plus

£1100
  • Scheduled Campaign
  • Featured Website Package
  • Featured Games (3 Months)
  • Magazine Feature By Default
  • 2 x Full Size Advert (A4)
  • 9 Months Sidebar Banners
  • Marketing Package
  • 6 copies of Magazine Priority Dispatched

Campaign

£550
  • Scheduled Campaign
  • Featured Website Package
  • Featured Games (3 Months)
  • Magazine Feature By Default
  • Full Size Advert (A4)
  • 6 Months Sidebar Banners
  • Marketing Package
  • 3 copies of Magazine Priority Dispatched

Publishing Packages – Available from July.

We will be launching our Publishing Packages from July.  Everything that we provide on an ongoing basis will be included – Just a yearly renewable contract.

*All website packages come with standard organic and direct traffic by default.  This traffic comes from search engines, our marketing activities in promoting the website, games and content shown in our communities or social media channels. In addition to any marketing packages that we may provide.

Frequently asked questions . . .

Submitting your game doesn’t guarantee that you will get on our website, or magazine.  It really depends on how complete your game is and if we feel that we can help.  We will look at your game being ready for inclusion on our website and will also look at whether or not the game is too generic!  One of the reasons why we believe stores are saturated with games is that too many of them are the same or do not provide any unique features to set themselves apart from the rest.

No.  At least not at the moment.  We believe it is not the right time to decide this just yet.  For now, we are happy to showcase or promote your game with the current stores that your game is in.  We can provide store links to most of the available stores out there today.  When you submit your game to our website, you are not uploading your game or demo – we help drive traffic to the game stores through showcases, marketing and campaign packages.

Not yet.  We are making sure that everything is in place before we become a publisher of games.

Yes!  You can upgrade and pay only the difference.   This will cover you for the additional marketing, time and resources that we provide.  Get in touch to find out what is included.

Submitting your game to us is the first step.  Once your game has been approved and added to our website, you will then potentially be selected for inclusion in our magazine, but it is not guaranteed.  We will generally select games that have been submitted to our website first, then our communities and then socials.  All games selected to be in each issue of the magazine will have a game page at the time of the magazine going to print and are generally held in reserve until then.  We try not to reveal any spoilers.

You can submit your game via the Free Basic Package, this will get your game into the queue system which is growing on a weekly basis, however we will filter out games that have a demo or have been released to give them more of a priority when we need to complete each book, but it will be less than a Priority package.  Your game could potentially be included in the first BIG BOOK of Indie Games or the next. (Subject to approval)

Marketing Package for Campaigns are provided with the same level of time and resources.  Get in touch to find out more.

We provide a minimum of 500 prints, with the option to produce more based on demand from pre-ordered or back-ordered magazine bundled issues that include the posters, available for an additional fee. Any surplus posters may be given away at events or sold as rolled-up prints in poster tubes through our store, with a small fee to cover administrative and shipping costs. This offers an alternative to the folded versions included with our limited-edition magazine stock. The total print volume may vary depending on the size of our reader base. If there’s a shortfall in volume, we may offer alternative promotional opportunities for your game until we can confirm our numbers for current or future issues.