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Indie Games - Fast, Cheap and Everywhere

Posted by michael on from the all-variants-of-tetris-unfortunately dept.

bios10h writes "MSNBC has an article about indie game developers and their businesses. 'INDEPENDENT COMPUTER GAMING: It's not always pretty, but ask any one in the biz and they'll say that it represents the purest form of game development. And sometimes the cheapest.' Interesting read about the indie games scene... maybe we have indie developers in the Slashdot crowd that would like to comment on this."

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  1. Purest form? by The+Terrorists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who says one form is purer than another? Does creating games for profit make them impure? I certainly hope to profit from my creative work, and it is quite pure - in fact, it is religious music. Where do these standards come from? Look more closely for assumptions in articles, and at least explain them in the write-up, editors.

  2. Re:Where do I start? by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you need a 3d engine to make a game? Most of the best games ever written are 2d or text, from back in the day when gameplay counted more than FPS.

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