Hello, let me jump into this 10 year old thread and just say I am now considering myself an indie game developer, I guess. I am a content creator but not here to promote that really, I have been coding casually and sometimes for money since I was about 10 (I am now almost 42 which should be a meaningful year), I've completed 2 Super Mario World ROM Hacks including one with lots of custom ASM, and I have now started in on a sort of dream project (finishing a game is the first step lol), it is in C++ and I am building the engine myself using SDL2 and lots of time on my linux mint laptop, as well as keeping windows in mind on my favorite material belonging (my PC).
I am unearthing this old account, I might post some other random stuff from Unity that I want to just put out there, but for now enjoy my technically completed games that were mostly made for game jams, and never picked up where I left off. And eventually I will reveal more about this project as I actually design it, but it is inspired by the rogue-[like/lite] genres, and also Xenogears which is the best retro game of all time, no question. But I hate to draw comparisons to other games, so I will get a demo out and let people make their own conclusions.