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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. Oooh... Microsoft looks like it's down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or at least nobody in my company can connect to it even though the rest of the internet is up

    16:11 EST (GMT -5, Aug/1/2003)

    1. Re:Oooh... Microsoft looks like it's down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Microsoft is currently the target of a recently released RPC-vulnerability attack. Thousands of 2k boxes are being used as reflectors in a massive attack. Makes me wish I ran my site off of an unpatched NT box to help out.

      Windowsupdate.microsoft.com seems unaffected at this point.

  2. Re:Well, how about answering the question? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of them I would recommend is Indie Games. Not a great site, but fits what you are lookin' for.

    Indie Games can kiss my ass. I followed the link, and this is what I got:

    You have been blocked for 30 minutes for favicon spamming!

    Some browsers provide a feature that allows web sites to replace certain icons in various parts of the browser with custom site icons. Unfortunately, some of them also have a default policy of requesting a generic "favicon.ico" URL from sites that don't have these icons. This slows down your browsing experience and costs web site operations money due to the wasted network bandwidth and log file space. This site blocks browsers that have this enabled. An exception is made for IE users, since I can't afford to block them all, IE doesn't allow them to disable it, and IE only generates the spurious requests when the site is bookmarked.

    So I'm being punished for using a featureful browser? How much bandwidth could a 16x16 png take anyway? <plonk> indie-games.com, you just lost a potential supporter.