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Make It Playable vs a freelance developer
A good HTML5 freelancer will build you a beautiful playable. The difficulty is never the first one — it is the fifth, the network that wants ES5, and the week they are on holiday. Make It Playable gives you tailor-made units on demand, with the network specs already encoded.
| A freelance developer | Make It Playable | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per unit | €800–3,000 | One credit — from roughly €4 per build |
| Turnaround | Three days to two weeks | Minutes |
| Availability | Their calendar, not yours | Always — including the week they are on holiday |
| Network specs | Learned per network, often the hard way | Encoded: file size, offline test, ES5 output, disclaimers, CTA wiring |
| QA | Manual, or the network does it for you | Deterministic report attached to every build |
| Bespoke mechanics | Anything you can describe | Tailor-made within known mechanic families — built new from your brief, not templated |
| Maintenance | Depends on them still being reachable | Every version stored, rebuildable by anyone on your team |
Why teams pick Make It Playable
Available the moment you are — no calendar, no queue, no handover doc
Every build comes with a deterministic QA report attached, not a hope and a manual test
Network specs — file size, offline behaviour, ES5 output, CTA wiring — encoded per network
Every version is stored and rebuildable, so nothing depends on one person staying reachable
The export is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript — a developer can hand-finish anything we generate
Where the other option is better
For a genuinely novel interaction — physics, 3D, a licensed character rig — hire the developer, or start from our export and let them take it the last mile.
Freelancers are cheaper than agencies and slower than software. The economics turn once you want more than about three units a month.
Plenty of developers use the studio as a starting file and then hand-finish it. The export is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, so that works.
Keep the freelancer for the unusual brief. Stop paying them to re-implement the same tap-to-reveal for the fourth time — generate it, tailor-made, in minutes.
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