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Indie Gaming Gets 2004 Mid-Term Grades
Thanks to Game Tunnel for its 2004 mid-term report card on the independent PC gaming scene, rating what "is turning out to be one of the most impressive years yet in the Indie world." Among the approved-of titles include action games such as Hamsterball ("a wonderful surprise that plays a lot like Marble Madness would play [if updated]"), platform adventures such as Gish ("[starring] a ball of tar [whose] goal is to find his girlfriend who was taken down... the sewer"), before looking forward to interesting hopefuls that include Oasis ("takes all the strategy of a game like Civilization and then turns it into a 3 minute experience.")
Don't forget that all the open source game developers are Indy. Go check out the games in progress at sourceforge, I was really surprised. Freeciv is an excellent and free game, and there are loads of others in work.
The only thing working against the indy game developers is publicity, because of course the big companies control the big media distribution and so on... Indy gaming needs the same kind of pro-selling word of mouth that Linux has been getting from day one.
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