A Pivot To Indie won’t save us [AURAMBLES blog] (auratriolo.com)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18062356

An indie dev's response to NYT's "Games Can’t Afford To Look This Good" and the meme of "I want smaller games with less graphics and I'm not kidding".

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[-] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've interpreted the “I want smaller games with less graphics and I’m not kidding” meme as saying that we need AA games rather than indies. Games with large-ish teams but less crunch and less complicated asset creation pipelines and more space to fix bugs and iterate on the core game.

this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025

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