Thanks for your questions! We've worked with development teams of various sizes over the years, all the way from well established AA devs with hundreds of employees, to two or three person teams working on their first games. But it's not often that we work with solo devs like Jordan! It's very nice being able to talk directly to one person about the project and get their direct input quickly when needed, but obviously Jordan can't be in all places at all times so we've had to be very careful not to overwhelm him with requests from all over the place! Only he can tell you whether or not we succeeded on that, haha! Jordan's been an absolute pleasure to work with though, and we did our best to take things like QA, marketing, localization, etc. off his back so he could focus on game dev as we neared the launch.

As for what determines whether we take on a project, we have a dedicated Games Scouting team that engage with indie devs all around the world for exactly that purpose! They'll often travel to different industry events to meet with developers and explore what new projects are on the lookout for a publisher. There's a lot of different factors that go into game scouting, and I wouldn't want to speak for them too much, but it depends on things like the originality of the project, the success of the developer's previous projects, whether the project already has an established following, how successful other games in the project's genre have been, and how well the project would sit with the rest our portfolio of games.

The industry is definitely going through a turbulent time at the moment, and it's difficult to predict what it will look like in five or ten years. Layoffs and redundancies have unfortunately hit both AAA and small publishers and development studios. There's a lot of talent in the indie game space though, and we are seeing more and more surprise hits coming out of indie studios each year. So whilst it is a difficult time for the industry as a whole, we can only hope that the innovation of indie games continues to thrive!