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The Indie Game Commandments

Posted by Zonk on from the thou-shalt-not-make-a-movie-game dept.

simoniker writes "As part of an in-depth postmortem of Xbox title Stubbs The Zombie over at Gamasutra, company founder and Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has revealed his own personal 'indie game commandments' when setting up his new firm: 'First Commandment: We shall establish our game's creative direction... Second commandment: We shall own our intellectual property... Third commandment: We shall not let a third party determine our success, such as the publisher who's doing (or not doing) the marketing, or the funding source (likely a publisher) making demands that are not in-line with our goals... Fourth Commandment: We shall have a small manageable team. We don't want 50 employees making one game over three years in house (we want low overhead), and we don't want to suffer the churn of ramping up and down for projects.'"

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  1. India game commandments by krell · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Do not eat curry while playing game.

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    1. Re:India game commandments by A.Chwunbee · · Score: 0, Funny

      Sahib, I am finding you're grammer is totaly in the pit! Should b: "Do not be eating the curry while playing, you foolish fellow".

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  2. Translation by neonprimetime · · Score: 2, Funny
    'First Commandment: We shall establish our game's creative direction... Second commandment: We shall own our intellectual property... Third commandment: We shall not let a third party determine our success, such as the publisher who's doing (or not doing) the marketing, or the funding source (likely a publisher) making demands that are not in-line with our goals... Fourth Commandment: We shall have a small manageable team. We don't want 50 employees making one game over three years in house (we want low overhead), and we don't want to suffer the churn of ramping up and down for projects.'"

    1. We will not create re-makes of classic games.
    2. We will sue anybody who tries to make a rip-off version of one of our games.
    3. We will not blame others for our own failures.
    4. We are just going to hire a couple /.ers and work them 18 hour days.
  3. Re:Left one out.... by AcidLacedPenguiN · · Score: 3, Funny

    Agreed. Starforce is absolutely killing the PC game industry. I don't know about anyone else, but when I see broken starforce games on the torrents, I'll download them JUST TO SPITE those Russian mafia crooks who made it. That's even if I have no interest in the game!

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