I just can’t see it that way.

Yes there are bad publishers out there, they’re probably the majority. Not all of them are

High art

Piefed also has a feature to mark replies as an “answer” (like StackOverflow) which would be cool for the comm

This distinction only perpetuates the silly (and often misleading) idea of the “tortured artist” grinding their soul to dust to make something true to themself. It doesn’t have to be that way.

So may people’s understanding of indie dev begin and end at Indie Game: The Movie

It has never “shifted,” independent has always meant the freedom to create whatever you want without input from anyone else. Money to support the team has to come from somewhere, even Stardew was bankrolled by his partner for a decade while he worked on it full time.

Because they wanted to work on Star Wars, but this was such a flop Disney pulled the deal

That’s what I said, it works great on mobile! It even plays in the background

I didn’t know that! I’ve only tried the free stuff since video was added, it’s mostly okay. It works fine on mobile but doesn’t seem to remember my video position across devices, which makes 3 hour Mario Party videos more tedious than they already are

Just a guess: any post to Patreon is viewed as advertising. The free tiers are relatively unknown and most people still see the site as a website to more directly support creators

It’s free if you use 🐧

We should definitely be measuring distances with golf clubs

Agree! Without twitch and the lockdown the game would’ve quietly died

The Among Us devs didn’t rely on any virality for success, the game had been abandoned before it blew up

It’s unfortunately more widely used in the dev space too

Not to mention that it’s off topic for the community!

Anyway OP you can blend half a bottle of vitamin d pills into a smoothie for breakfast lunch and dinner

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Good description of the problems! I don’t play many big games nowadays but the tutorialization definitely feels heavy handed. I’m reminded of the newer Doom games that want to make sure players don’t get confused with pops for every single enemy. I think it’s a result of trying to scoop up a wider net of players to recoup those crazy dev costs.

Accessibility is a big win, replaying older games is sometimes very jank because of how games have evolved!

Elaborate! If you want to, that first Dying Light was a great game but I never played the sequels

That would be why I used the phrase in quotes, I don’t agree with it

Gamedev is like the ultimate digital hobby if you do it yourself. You get to program, do art, sound, game design, etc.