{"id":1086,"date":"2005-07-28T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Indie games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costik.com\/weblog\/2005_07_01_blogchive.html#112254986073206098\" target=\"_blank\">Greg talks indie games&#8230; again!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My biggest problem with this type of manifestos is, they all end with the motto &quot;let&#8217;s make better games&quot;, they rarely address the question &quot;better for who?&quot; I&#8217;m an Old Turk (almost 19 years since my first game went gold), but my list of favourite games include GTA, Call of Duty, Age of Mythology, Halo, World of Warcraft&#8230; all vey high budget games, and all considered derivative in some form.<\/p>\n<p>Greg&#8217;s presentation strikes hard at this point, by not denying the value in these games, rather by emphasizing the value of other options. Great stuff there.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem remains, with cheaper distribution available for cheaper games, the risk of flooding the channel is very real. Great games can still be lost in a vast sea of mediocrity. Production values, licenses and sheer marketing dollars are the way game companies have turned to in order to make our games stand out. In a flooded channel, the same problem will arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg talks indie games&#8230; again! My biggest problem with this type of manifestos is, they all end with the motto &quot;let&#8217;s make better games&quot;, they rarely address the question &quot;better for who?&quot; I&#8217;m an Old Turk (almost 19 years since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1086\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}