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Can Independent Game Developers Survive?

Posted by timothy on from the sure-they-can dept.

Zanthor writes "Online Gaming - Comments and News has an interesting interview with Scott Miller and Larry Dunlap (Imperial Wars) about their up-and-coming game. While the concept has been around since the old Play By Mail games, their web-based client and world-class art pose the question: Can a small start up group compete with the big name publishers for the Multi-Player money?" EA employs how many people?

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  1. Introversion is a good example... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Introversion ended up quite successful with their simple hacking sim "Uplink".

    It's a fun little game that started out as the guy's pet project, but ended up taking off and has sold many many copies since.

    Heck I ended up buying a few copies for Xmas presents this year, and most of my friends agreed it was quite enjoyable. Runs on both Windows and Linux.

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