Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution?

Posted by michael on Wednesday March 12, 2003 @12:18AM from the dance-dance-revolution dept.

Bakajin writes "Greg Costikyan's blog article A Specter is Haunting Gaming speaks in coarse language about "despair" in the independent game developing community. He says that despite the fact that no Independent Game Festival title "has ever gone on to major publication and success... 10,000 geeks... would just love to do what the IGF guys are doing... work on something you believe in, not churn out the next big-budget piece of crap." I can't help but read that and think that it represents a huge opportunity for a new game machine that lowers the bar for entry and has a unique revenue model. However, is the story of Indrema a prophesy? Is Infinium just vapor? Is there any other solution?"

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Intolerable self-righteous self-pity by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 00:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wow, this is the first thing I read this morning, and now I'm going to have the Comic Book Guy stuck in my head all day. How do you pronounce the whining noise that sums up this article? Is is hhhnnnaaaaayyyrr, or awwnnhhrnn?

The difference between this article and Courtney Love's rip on Albini's music biz takedown is like the difference between life and death. Work on those rhetorical skills, Skippy.
Who needs Sports Illustrated.... by Jethro+On+Deathrow · 2003-03-12 00:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

when you have press photos like this one? WOW!
First Dupe! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 00:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First Dupe!