Indie Game Developers and the Facebook of Doom

Karl Bunyan
Karl BunyanDeveloper at Wedu Games
 
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Things aren’t looking good ,[object Object]
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A holy grail of app development?
A holy grail of app development? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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