Capy Games’ Nathan Vella shares surprising facts about the state of indie games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 28, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
4 min

Nathan Vella, president and cofounder of Capy Games, has become a voice for the indies. As a publisher of indie titles, he spoke about the increasing difficulties that indie game studios are having in the app stores and on the web and what they can do about it.

Addressing the Gaming Insiders event in San Francisco last week, Vella said that game developers often focus on a single platform as a favorite target for a game. But he said that it makes a lot more sense for indies to go cross-platform. Porting games is cheap, and it can pay off in a big way with an even spread of revenue across a lot of platforms, he said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.