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Return of the Independent Game Developer?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the games-gone-wild dept.

chromatic writes "Several of the trends that make open source development possible are affecting other programming worlds. I've written an article about independent game development. Perhaps the gaming industry is ready for the craftsman-team approach."

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  1. Aiiiight by unformed · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm gonna plug the Independent Game Developer's Association

  2. Read the Game Postmortens by dolphinuser · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the regular columns of Game Developers Magazine, is a feature called: "Game Postmorten". In this column, different game companies talked about their experiences writing some of their games.

    You'll notice that more and more games are resembling big hollywood productions, with multi-year engaments, and dozens of contributors. This has come about because users expect photo-realistic graphics, and true-to-real physics engines. A small group of developers have little chance of having this resources at hand.

    For an example, check the Postmorten for Dungeon Siege Here.

    John

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    The drops of water don't know themselves to be a river; and yet the river flows.