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Do you love Indie games?

Yes cause they are games no matter what 24 72.73%
 
No cause they are on Sony 9 27.27%
 
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Wright on 21 August 2013
ethomaz said:

Wright said:

They're not. They're developers who are making a game. There's people that worked on Blizzard. On Sony. These people know their way around a game. They had financial help when creating Tequila Works as a company. They have their games published.

 

They're not indie developers. They're developers.

Sorry. Indie. Check your sources... Deadlight is indie too.

 

What makes them indie, tell me?



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Wright on 21 August 2013
badgenome said:
Wright said:

They're not. They're developers who are making a game. There's people that worked on Blizzard. On Sony. These people know their way around a game. They had financial help when creating Tequila Works as a company. They have their games published.

 

They're not indie developers. They're developers.

So an indie has to self publish its games?

Would you say that Ska Studios isn't indie?


Well, considering when Microsoft wanted to avoid that "indie developers" self-published their games they all exploded in rage, so I suspect it has something to do.

 

I'm just looking for a definition right now.



JoeTheBro on 21 August 2013

I love games! Who cares who makes it as long as the game is good?

One thing I do worry about though is over saturation.



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Wright on 21 August 2013
BasilZero said:

 

@OT Wright - I think someone mentioned - lower budget games (opposite of AAA games).


If I won the lottery and I spent all that money just so that I make a game, it stops being indie? It's AAA, no doubt, but that doesn't make it less indie.



ethomaz on 21 August 2013

Wright said:

What makes them indie, tell me?

From wiki: "Developers not owned by a publisher... Independent developers retain operational control over their companies, pipelines, and organizations."

And I always thought that "independent" in music, movies, games, etc are companies that didn't have a fixed contract with a publisher... they just choose any publisher they want to release their actual work.

Tequila Works is a developer not owned or linked to any publisher.... so Independent.

Independent Awards they won this year.

“Most addictive game” from Indie Developer Burger Awards
“Least indie game” from Indie Developer Burger Awards
“Coolest game” from Indie Developer Burger Awards

How can a not indie dev won indie awards? lol



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ethomaz on 21 August 2013

BasilZero said:

@OT Wright - I think someone mentioned - lower budget games (opposite of AAA games).

Indie games can have biggest budget behind it (Journey for example).



Wright on 21 August 2013
ethomaz said:

Wright said:

What makes them indie, tell me?

Tequila Works is a developer not owned or linked to any publisher.... so Independent.


Nice for you using the wiki. Now look at this:

 

Wiki about: videogame developers. Wikipedia doesn't acknowledge first-party games as indie. In fact, indie are in another category.

 

Now would you look at this:

 

 



ethomaz on 21 August 2013

Just because Sony is publishing their game didn't make then less indie lol.

Journey is a first-party game, published by Sony and it is indie.

Indie means Independent to choose any publisher you want... everything of the game is your and not related to the publishers... you can choose to make any deal with any publisher.

Now if you say the game IP (everything created about this game) is owned by Sony then I agree with you... it is not indie... if the game is owned by Tequila Works then it is a indie game.



Euphoria14 on 21 August 2013

Tequila Works isn't and independant developer?

Who owns them? Who owns their games? Who tells them what games to create?



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Wright on 21 August 2013
ethomaz said:

Just because Sony is publishing their game didn't make then less indie lol.

Journey is a first-party game, published by Sony and it is indie.

Indie means Independent to choose any publisher you want... everything of the game is your and not related to the publishers... you can choose to make any deal with any publisher.

Now if you say the game IP (everything created about this game) is owned by Sony then I agree with you... it is not indie... if the game is owned by Tequila Works then it is a indie game.


So Quantic Dream's games are indie?