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”.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    re screenshot; Raise your hands 🙌

    Have you participated in game jams?

    Their clear scope and limited timeline means [more likely] something gets done and completed, to some degree.

    “patient” probably means I’m not doing it beyond some scattered attempts.

    I don’t really get what you mean by that. I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      I don’t see patient as “letting it slide [off]”.

      These days I don’t really buy things ever, I mostly play free games if even that. Less hopeful of the industry, feel like I wasted money. Later purchases were more patient, but disappointment there only slowed it even further.

      This is a me problem (and a lack of income), but I sort of see it as being patient to a fault.

      something gets done and completed

      I am talking within the context of mental/physical health issues and never having made anything close to a game. Personal despair, isolation, lacking viable options, collapse.

      So it’s more of an existential crisis. I am guessing there are probably some idioms about learning/practicing survival skills when the ship you’re on is already sinking.