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Wideload's Seropian Talks Indie Game Freedom

simoniker writes "Wideload's Alex Seropian, who must recently finished wacky Xbox title Stubbs The Zombie, but also co-founded Bungie, has been chatting about how big-budget games are made, and noting: "I had a great experience at Microsoft. But being on the other side of the fence, there were a lot of developers that were making games for the Xbox for launch time, and a lot of them were struggling for one reason or another... a lot of them were struggling with trying to manage their finances, that cashflow, because they were living under the milestone payment system. And a lot of them were going out of business. And I thought, 'Gee, if I weren't doing this for a living, I'd think this is totally a loser business to be in.'" Seropian now suggests using a small internal group to make games and staffing up with independent contractors when each project starts. Why aren't all games done like this?"

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  1. must recently by cabd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...Must... Finish ... Finnished ... Game!
    (who must recently finished wacky Xbox title Stubbs The Zombie)
    Can the Slashdot editors ever learn how to edit? Story at eleven!

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