What Makes an Indie Game?
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024
- Hey y'all! Sorry I've been gone for so long. University's been killing me... but more videos coming in the near future, now that the school year is over! Making good progress on the Spider-Man 2 review, aaaaaand there'll be another more experimental video launching before that. Stay tuned for those!
Anyways, enjoy this silly little school project I made about indie games! This video had to be made a little simpler due to the fact that the audience for it is not well-versed in game terminology, and I had a ten-minute time limit for the video that I ALREADY exceeded haha. If it were up to me I would have done a full review on every single one of these games, plus some more XD. Anyways, enjoy!
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Stole some stuff from Wikipedia to get more recommendations from keywords, you can't stop me, hehehe...
An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. Because of their independence and freedom to develop, indie games often focus on innovation, experimental gameplay, and taking risks not usually afforded in AAA games. Indie games tend to be sold through digital distribution channels rather than at retail due to a lack of publisher support. The term is analogous to independent music or independent film in those respective mediums.
Indie game development bore out from the same concepts of amateur and hobbyist programming that grew with the introduction of the personal computer and the simple BASIC computer language in the 1970s and 1980s. So-called bedroom coders, particularly in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, made their own games and used mail order to distribute their products, later shifting to other software distribution methods with the onset of the Internet in the 1990s, such as shareware and other file sharing distribution methods, though by this time, interest in hobbyist programming had waned due to rising costs of development and competition from video game publishers and home consoles.
The modern take on the indie game scene resulted from a combination of numerous factors in the early 2000s, including technical, economic, and social concepts that made indie games less expensive to make and distribute but more visible to larger audiences and offered non-traditional gameplay from the current mainstream games. A number of indie games at that time became success stories that drove more interest in the area. New industry opportunities have arisen since then, including new digital storefronts, crowdfunding, and other indie funding mechanisms to help new teams get their games off the ground; low-cost and open-source development tools available for smaller teams across all gaming platforms; boutique indie game publishers that leave creative freedom to the developers; and industry recognition of indie games alongside mainstream ones at major game award events.
Around 2015, the increasing number of indie games being published led to fears of an "indiepocalypse", referring to an oversupply of games that would make the entire market unprofitable. Although the market did not collapse, discoverability remains an issue for most indie developers, with many games not being financially profitable. Examples of successful indie games include the Touhou Project series, Cave Story, Braid, Super Meat Boy, Terraria, Minecraft, Fez, Shovel Knight, Undertale, Hollow Knight, and Cuphead.
Love the 4 different categories you've made! It's amazing how indies both keep the old ways alive, while simultaneously bringing SO much new stuff to the table! People who say "all Indie games are the same" don't have a clue what they're talking about!
I find it funny how if Dwarf fortress was featured, it would probably fall under "simplistic games" while also being ludicrously complex XD
Can't wait for your next video!!
Oh you know it! The next one is gonna be a good one >:)
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Dope thumbnail design
Very succinct and informative.
Great vid.
Oh dang, I just got the discord notification and I'm not even first. I can't get banned now for saying the forbidden words :(
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