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Editado por Speaker:
12/13/2025 8:08:47 AM
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"Indie" games
I have a rant to make; regarding the industry's definition of "indie games"... in my humble opinion, its pure bullshit, and the people going along with it and defending it are unwittingly doing harm to actual indie developers.
Indie does not mean a smaller studio that just happens to be "obscur" and suppprted by a bigger producer, it does not mean an i dustry game that is merely "Not AAA"; no, It means... an INDEPENDENT -blam!- DEVELOPER.
Calling a developer supported by a larger studio, "indie " is a spit in the face of actual independant devs, and whats more, the industry wants you to go along with that. They want you to think only they can make games, when the fact of the matter is, Silksong was practically made by one person,(yes i know it was actually 3 people) and numerous big games this year were developed and produced by actually independant devs.
Im sure Expedition 33 was a a good game, but stop trying to gaslight people into thinking it was indie when its French development studio is supported by a producer headquartered in Singapore.
Words. Have. Meaning. When you manipulate definitions to make your product seem more impressive it dilutes the efforts and actually impressive work of truly independant devs. Its selfish, its shitty and it makes me not want to play your game.
Rant over.
Tldr; the game awards are still a sham, and now they can add boldly dishonest to their descriptors.
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I do think small studios should still be called indie. Like, Wizard With a Gun still had a team behind it, and they were supported by Devolver Digital, but I’d still say they were indie, but theit team was a far cry from something like CoD, and Devolver’s whole deal is they back indies. That said, there does definitely need to be a line drawn… I’m just not exactly sure where to draw it. I don’t know enough about the studio behind Expedition 33 to speak for them. I think part of the problem is it’s not common enough for a studio to be big enough to not be considered “indie” but small enough to not be AAA/AA, so there’s not a term for it. That said, at least when people call Expedition 33 indie, they are still thinking about what that means. A lot of people call Dave the Diver indie when it’s very much not even by the loosest definitions. Even the developers say it’s not indie.
