Manifesto Games is Live

Conspiracy_Of_Doves writes "As reported before, Greg Costikyan, author of the Scratchware Manifesto has had a business plan in the works for a while now to do an end run around the PC Gaming industry and get indie games to the masses. Wait no more. Manifesto Games is officially GO! PC gamers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your retail chains!"

Comments

Uh, it's just a beta

[costik]

Oh well. Guess we get a stress test today as well.

Re:I don't get it

[DavidTC]

There are already perfectly good game portals out there, run by actual gaming communities that don't have any sort of incentive to promote crap games.

What's more, they're focused on specific genres, and even like different things within each genre. So you just find one or two that roughly lines up to what you find interesting, read the reviews (The big sites can get prerelease reviews, but sometimes the big sites aren't the best.), check out screen shots, read the forums, and you'll soon have a good idea what games you might like.

Why on earth would we trust a place selling the game to tell use it's certainly a good game and we certainly should buy it? It's not like, after we find an interesting game, we're too damn lazy to google it and buy it online from the publisher. Hell, the existing portals have links to their webpages.

This whole concept is idiotic. If you want a game portal, google the type of game you like, and 'forum', like 'adventure game forum' or 'fps forum'. See what review sites they're talking about, check them out.

And most of those places have specific 'indie' areas.