A Pivot To Indie won’t save us – AURAMBLES
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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”.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The topic and community have an unfortunate overlap for me, “patient” probably means I’m not doing it beyond some scattered attempts.

    I have lurked with the ideas on different low-resource solo-dev specializations. I feel like the pieces are mostly there for me (Godot 4.4 will be closer to that), though I still need to put a lot of work in for no clear end-goal (I don’t really want to really sell something, even if I could).

    And thinking about the future (gestures broadly) just makes me feel like

    A low-poly, vertex color-only model of a tail-less gecko, pathetic-looking and purple under its eyes. The origin lines from the software Blender can be barely seen

    Personal issues sure don’t help.

    Also, an in-engine screenshot

  • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
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    10 days 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.