No idea how to raise funds myself. One thing is clear: "big publishers" are no longer a good choice. The price of a paycheck is too high. Too many IPs stayed with the publisher and went straight into the title graveyard.
A while ago I called it the "ecological dead zone", a devastated mid-epidemic planet from Subnautica where only the plankton (solo devs) and the leviathans (megacorps) survived. Yet even the leviathans are not immune. They merely die much slower. Wi…