Indie Games - Fast, Cheap and Everywhere

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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So?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a reason why Indie games developers are indie. They just don't cut it for the big publishers, and trying a few reveals why! They usually develop sub-standard games with crap graphics, no sound and appalling gameplay. That's why I never bother with their junk. Especially when you can usually *cough*obtain*cough* big-name games for free if you look hard enough anyway.

I have started The Bringer of Light: The Quest

[gatesh8r]

It's a Sourceforge project (Link.). One of the things we're trying to do with the project is to keep it original, which games are desperately lacking. I am with the rest of the slashdot crowd that artists are very hard to find, and right now my project only has one artist. Which is a shame considering I have not even considered implementing sound and I know of a few friends that are willing to compose some music for the project.