EA doesn 't have a publisher. Are they independent r n r nThere are plenty of teams of 21-or-more publisher-less game developers who are doing a great job and are really no less indie then their 20-or-less brethren. As he pointed out in the article, though, the definition he used ...
I would read that observation in a different way, I think. Indies are usually less worried about expressing their opinions publicly because they 're self-employed and often more in the limelight than the majority of employees at a major studio , so each individual indie developer is more likely to ...
How is Valve 's storefront un-curated r n1 It requires approval merely to be included in it at all. even in the case of Greenlight . r n2 Games are featured in many curated positions, including the Store home page slideshow, Daily Deals, and Specials. r n r nThe more ...
The authors don 't draw any conclusions about 'all gamers, ' they draw conclusions about the experience of female players versus male players in Xbox Live and similar online communities.
@Jimmy - it 's significantly different from XBLIG. The idea is more akin to Amazon storefronts - anything can be sold through Amazon, as long as it meets certain legal requirements and makes certain customer guarantees. Amazon merely acts as the storefront software provider and as the payments system provider ...
I love that in the first thirty seconds the kid drops the words voxel and biome. Makes me think of how I might have a selectively developed vocabulary from growing up on games.
The quote seemed pretty determined to signal that that was NOT the case - that creative decisions like these screens should be more blue were not a problem, but that they are free to make some business decisions on their own now - probably related to a financial model, release ...
I think in general, most of the points in the article are much worse offenders in multiplayer games than in singleplayer games. In singleplayer games, having the player spend an hour doing something weird is okay, as long as they 're not ruining the next five hours by doing it. ...
