Indie game dev blog Field notes

Subscribe via RSS

Unity guides, budgets, and notes from running an indie game studio. Following a game from idea to launch? That lives in the devlog.

Grey-box prototype cubes with one glowing coral cube — how Leekon, an indie Unity game studio, finds the fun first Studio
4 min read

Indie Unity Game Studio: How Leekon Builds Games

What it's like inside an indie Unity game studio: how Leekon, a small team in Islamabad, prototypes, builds and ships original PC and mobile games.

Read the story
Latest articles
Unity game mobile guide cover in dark isometric style featuring 3D voxel cluster, 60 FPS optimization and Leekon Studio branding Guides
5 min read

Unity Mobile Game: How to Build, Optimize, and Ship

Building a successful unity mobile game? Here is our practical studio guide to hitting 60 FPS, cutting draw calls, and launching on iOS and Android.

Read more
Guides
4 min read

Game Development Companies in Islamabad (2026): 7 Studios, Checked Against Their Own Sites

Seven game development companies in Islamabad and Rawalpindi in 2026, with what each one makes, checked against the studio's own website or profile.

Read more
Business
4 min read

Game Development Cost in Pakistan (2026): Rates, Budgets and What You Get

What it costs to build a game with a studio in Pakistan in 2026: hourly rates, project budgets by game type, local salaries, and the costs outside the quote.

Read more
Guides
6 min read

Game Development in Pakistan (2026): Size, Studios, Money and How to Start

A sourced guide to game development in Pakistan in 2026: how big the industry is, where the studios are, what they make and earn, salaries, and how to start.

Read more
Guides
4 min read

Indie Game Studios in Pakistan (2026): What Counts as Indie and Who's Making Games

What is an indie game studio, how many game studios Pakistan has in 2026, which indie teams to know, and whether Minecraft still counts as indie.

Read more
Grey-box prototype cubes with one glowing coral cube — how Leekon, an indie Unity game studio, finds the fun first Studio
4 min read

Indie Unity Game Studio: How Leekon Builds Games

What it's like inside an indie Unity game studio: how Leekon, a small team in Islamabad, prototypes, builds and ships original PC and mobile games.

Read more
Unity game design patterns guide cover listing Singleton, Observer, State and Object Pool Guides
5 min read

Unity Game Design Patterns: Singleton, Observer, State and 4 More (with C# Examples)

Seven game design patterns every Unity developer should know: Singleton, Observer, State, Object Pool, Command, Factory and event channels, with C# code.

Read more
Business
5 min read

How much does it cost to make a mobile game in 2026?

Real budget ranges for hyper-casual, casual and mid-core mobile games: what drives the price, the hidden costs, and how to spend less without shipping less.

Read more
Guides
5 min read

Unity mobile optimization: 12 ways to hit 60 FPS on low-end Android

A practical checklist for making Unity games run smoothly on budget phones: profiling, URP settings, batching, textures, garbage collection and build settings.

Read more
Studio
1 min read

Devlog 001 — why we started Leekon

A small independent game studio, built around one belief: the best games come from teams that stay close to the play.

Read more

Subscribe

Never miss an entry.

No inbox, no algorithm. Drop our feed into any RSS reader and new devlog posts arrive the moment they ship.

Building something?

Talk to the people who wrote this.

Every post here comes out of real production work. If you want that thinking on your game, tell us about it.

Start a project