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calliope, 4 dni temu do gaming w The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain

It’s interesting because the meaning of the word “independent” is shifting for games, in the same way it shifted for Hollywood movies.

Essentially one guy made Stardew Valley, and funded it himself. Most of the development of Clair Obscur was funded by a publisher, Kepler Interactive.

So… for games “independent” now means “not funded by one of the major game studios.” Not really “independent” as it used to mean. That’s too bad.

t3rmit3, 4 dni temu

Yeah, I refuse to call anything ‘indie’ that is not in fact independent of a publisher. We already have A, AA, and AAA to denote budgets and scale. Rebranding ‘indie’ to mean ‘A’ or ‘AA’ games from third-party studios under a publisher is drinking the publisher kool-aid. Sony especially pushed this angle.