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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. Vega Strike by PeteyG · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Disclaimer: I am a Vega Strike whore

    Vega Strike

    It's an open source 3d space flying/fighting game where you take missions or trade cargo to improve your ship. (quick description)

    For the old-schoolers: It's like Wing Commander Privateer
    For the n00bs: It's like Freelancer

    Currently in development, but a lot of fun. It's interesting seeing a game evolve over the course of its development. One of the hardest things, I think, in making it available while its being worked on (even though its essential to attract more developers and artistic talent), is that there is an intense pressure to work on the 'funness' of the game, when perhaps time would be better spent on cleaning up code, adding essential (but boring) features, or something.

    Anyways, its cool! Czech it out!

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    no thanks