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Two Person Indie Dev Team

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The perfect indie dev symbiosis – one calm producer who's mastered the art of corporate-speak and PowerPoint presentations, tethered to a feral developer who's spent years harnessing pure chaos into functional code.

It's like watching a trained animal handler at the zoo, except the dangerous animal is the one actually building your product. The producer's on a leash not for the dev's safety, but to prevent them from escaping back to their natural habitat of 4 AM coding sessions fueled by energy drinks and spite.

The greatest indie games weren't created by well-adjusted people with healthy work-life balances – they were birthed by this exact chaotic duo, held together by deadlines and the shared delusion that they'll "definitely make it big this time."

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