--- title: Be very AWARE of Survivorship Bias! | daily.dev description: Indie game developers are warned about survivorship bias when planning project scope and timelines. Citing examples like Schedule One (a solo dev's game that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/be-very-aware-of-survivorship-bias--oxg75sqqx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Be very AWARE of Survivorship Bias! | daily.dev og:description: Indie game developers are warned about survivorship bias when planning project scope and timelines. Citing examples like Schedule One (a solo dev's game that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/be-very-aware-of-survivorship-bias--oxg75sqqx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OXg75sqqx.png og:image:alt: Be very AWARE of Survivorship Bias! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Be very AWARE of Survivorship Bias! **[Code Monkey](https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Indie game developers are warned about survivorship bias when planning project scope and timelines. Citing examples like Schedule One (a solo dev's game that made over $150 million after 5 years of work) and Hollow Knight, the advice stresses these are extreme outliers, not representative outcomes. The recommendation is to build small games (1-2 months as a beginner, up to a year at most), study realistic revenue expectations, and avoid basing decisions on the assumption of becoming the rare 0.1% success story. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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