How This Indie Dev Got 25K Wishlists on His First Game
ThatGuyGlen
May 19, 2026 16:00
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In this episode of Game Dev 1-On-1, a Game Dev Podcast, Zach Northrop joins me to talk about how he got into game development and how he’s building his first major indie game, Worming From Home. We go all the way back to his early interest in making games, how his background in design, programming, and audio shaped the way he works, and how a bizarre idea about a worm trying to survive remote work life slowly turned into a real project with serious momentum behind it.
We also talk about what it’s been like developing Worming From Home, from finding the right balance between comedy and actual game design, to building the physics and feel of controlling the worm, to putting the demo out into the world and seeing how people responded. On top of that, we dive into what Zach is learning as he works toward the full release, how he thinks about collaboration, sustainability, and the business side of indie development, and what kind of developer he wants to become from here.
Check out Worming From Home on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3547270/Worming_from_Home/
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