Guides for people with a game idea
By 9th House Games ·
Five questions a founder with a game idea is likely to have, answered from numbers we counted ourselves or read at the source.
- What does a mobile game prototype cost?Studio price lists against what clients post on Freelancer.
- What do publishers want from a hyper-casual prototype?The install-cost and retention bars publishers and Unity publish.
- Who actually gets hired to build a game?Our count of 853 closed Freelancer game projects: what got hired.
- Educational and training games: who buys them?What we can see of who hires for educational and training games.
- How do you test a game idea before spending money?A cheap way to find out if an idea is worth building, with the published bars.
How these pages were made. Our own data pulls and pages we opened on 27 Oct 2026, with the first drafts written with AI help.
9th House Games is the games studio of 9th House in Bengaluru, run by Rohan Kulkarni. We turn a game idea into a playable test build. If you have a game idea, send it to us.