Charles Cecil: "Playstation killed the first indies" (Opinion piece)

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outlawauron said:

Wright said:

I find interesting that he points out the App Store as the reborn moment for indies. Seems that the mobile market helped more than one developer to stay afloat, even if it gets too much hate here.

I think the App Store is definitely a major factor, but I also think XBLA was big in this regard. Games like Castle Crashers and Geometry Wars were changing how people thought of indie devs. 

Terraria is the game that really showed me. "Wow, indies are awesome!". Castle Crashers absolutely had a lot to do with the rise of indies it was a great game. Not to mention Minecraft