Non-Traditional Games On The Rise

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 27, 2005 @07:10AM from the better-than-regurgitation dept.

The Guardian Gamesblog has up an editorial looking at what the author perceives as a rise in the number of non-traditional games being developed. From the article: "There's Nintendogs, Electroplankton and Wizard of Funk. And there's EA doing a train game and all the Sims community stuff and Spore. And there's Sony larking about with EyeToy. And Bully from Rockstar. And The Movies. Is it just me or is a corner being turned? I mean, there's plenty of dull unimaginative genre regurgitation going on, there always will be. But I can't remember a time when there were so many titles coming up that couldn't comfortably be slotted into established categories."

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Er... by 88NoSoup4U88 · 2005-06-27 07:47 · Score: 3, Informative

The -real- innovation is at hand of independent developers. It's just that it gets steamrolled over by yet another game-clone-with-slightly-better-graphics : Only for gamestudios to pick up the idea 2/3 years down the road.
The only developer overtime that still is being innovative 'till this day is Nintendo, imo.