Aterdux Entertainment next Developer Diary update for Legends of Eisenwald about the recent previews of the game, and they even metion the preview from Aubrielle.
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Legends of Eisenwald - Indie or Not Indie?
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Carnifex
SasqWatch
Well, to me, a game being called something from the 90's is quite usually a high compliment. At least in the rpg department. So they should ride that pony all the way to the bank.
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SasqWatch
I found it really funny when I read the update, especially this part:
Basically many people feel that if a game doesn't have a whimsical gimmick and a tutorial it's "too outdated". I weep for humanity.
Basically many people feel that if a game doesn't have a whimsical gimmick and a tutorial it's "too outdated". I weep for humanity.
Elhoim
ITS Developer
We had similar issues when presenting AoD in one of these so called "Indie Festivals". And our feeling was what was said in the article, "that indie games for them are almost exclusively pixel art, simple mechanics and other attributes of modern pop-culture".
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SasqWatch
I think it's pretty obvious that people typically associated with the indie scene are not part of the target audience for an eastern European strategy game like Legends of Eisenwald, or your target audience. This audience has more in common with people who play mobile apps: they want cheap, easily accessible gratification, and a cuddly theme to feel fuzzy.
Your target audience are the people who actually care about actual substance and difficult but rewarding and often intellectually demanding content, and who will be glad to pay full price to patronize someone who caters exactly to what they want.
fuzzicalFighter
Mighty Wizard
Everything negative in the whole Indie games scene I think can be personified by the pretentious douchebag hipster monstrosity that is Phil Fish. Why do so many of these festivals feel the need for so much pretense and snobbery?
I think Indie should simply mean independent of major studio funding.
I think Indie should simply mean independent of major studio funding.
Farflame
SasqWatch
Thats how I always thought about it. I dont understand why indie should be only some retro-style pop culture who thinks their games are great just because pixel art or gimmicks are cool.
Good comment. I have similar impression.
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SasqWatch
http://sinisterdesign.net/against-the-cult-of-simplicity/
Also see this recent article in which Craig Stern decries the overt focus of the indie scene toward simplicity to the detriment of complex games, it is in the same vein.
To be fair to them, though, I think a lot of this focus toward simplicity is also due to most indies having almost no budget, so it's easy to make a whimsical game with a bit of pixel art that will have a short development cycle, and will garner the attention and praise that the green developer, often still in college or fresh out of it, longs to get. Few people, other than the likes of Jeff Vogel who have a well established business model, choose to go the less traveled road.
Also see this recent article in which Craig Stern decries the overt focus of the indie scene toward simplicity to the detriment of complex games, it is in the same vein.
To be fair to them, though, I think a lot of this focus toward simplicity is also due to most indies having almost no budget, so it's easy to make a whimsical game with a bit of pixel art that will have a short development cycle, and will garner the attention and praise that the green developer, often still in college or fresh out of it, longs to get. Few people, other than the likes of Jeff Vogel who have a well established business model, choose to go the less traveled road.