{"id":10799,"date":"2026-01-09T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:31:01","slug":"indie-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10799","title":{"rendered":"Indie developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/indie-developer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Indie developer!\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/indie-developer-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/indie-developer-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/indie-developer-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/indie-developer.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Natuurlijk heb ik gehoord van &#8216;indie?developers&#8217;. Ik hou enorm van dat soort games, maar ineens realiseerde ik me iets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Geen uitgever, geen externe baas, geen commissie die me vertelt hoe de game eruit moet zien. Ik bepaal de mechanics, de artstyle, de branding, de emotionele toon  en juist die creatieve autonomie is de kern van indie zijn. Mijn projecten komen voort uit nostalgie, nieuwsgierigheid en plezier, niet uit marktdruk. Dat is klassieke indie?energie: iets maken omdat het betekenis heeft.<\/p>\n<p>En ja, dat geldt ook voor <a href=\"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?cat=116&#038;lang=nl\">Mushroom Mayhem<\/a>&#8230; het drong ineens tot me door: <strong>ik ben<\/strong> een indie game developer! Jaja!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natuurlijk heb ik gehoord van &#8216;indie?developers&#8217;. Ik hou enorm van dat soort games, maar ineens realiseerde ik me iets&#8230; Geen uitgever, geen externe baas, geen commissie die me vertelt hoe de game eruit moet zien. Ik bepaal de mechanics, de &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10799\">Lees verder <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbie","category-mushroom-mayhem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peO9x-2Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10805,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}