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Gamasutra - Nine Paths To Indie Game Greatness

  • zaphod
  • February 26, 2008 at 5:22 PM
  • zaphod
    • February 26, 2008 at 5:22 PM
    • #1

    here is an article I wrote a few months ago that finally got put up on gamasutra:

    http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... atness.php

    It's about different things independent game developers are doing to develop games with very few resources.

  • FrieChamp
    • February 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM
    • #2

    Nice article zappy, congrats on getting it up there!

  • R_Yell
    • February 26, 2008 at 10:52 PM
    • #3

    I enjoyed the read a lot, thank you very much.

  • Taylor
    • February 27, 2008 at 12:52 AM
    • #4

    Quality.

  • Furyo
    • February 27, 2008 at 5:07 AM
    • #5

    Certainly shed a whole new light on the subject on my end, many thanks for sharing. I don't read gamasutra as much as I should, that made me want to know more though

  • Zacker
    • February 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM
    • #6

    Nice read! Not anything really surprising in there, but a very fine and comprehensive article about Indie Game Development!

  • ReNo
    • February 27, 2008 at 11:25 AM
    • #7

    I agree, it was an interesting read; very well written article. Our lead programmer actually emailed it around to everyone this morning and I was all "hey, that's by David Marsh!" It isn't all that often people bother emailing links to gamasutra articles around the office, so congratulations!

  • Hourences
    • February 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM
    • #8

    Plan to one day venture into low budget games myself, just as a hoby, so it was an interesting read:)

  • Ginger Lord
    • February 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM
    • #9

    I had a heart attack when I saw "Monetization", its not a word!

    Nice article though!

  • e-freak
    • February 27, 2008 at 3:54 PM
    • #10

    yes - very nice read.

  • Thrik
    • February 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM
    • #11
    Quote from ginger_lord

    I had a heart attack when I saw "Monetization", its not a word!

    It's included in some unabridged dictionaries.

  • Ginger Lord
    • February 27, 2008 at 5:53 PM
    • #12

    Its still a horrible mash up of the English language

  • zaphod
    • February 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM
    • #13

    this is my favorite bit of feedback from the article so far:

    Quote from some random dude

    so yeah, this guy david marsh is such an expert on creating indie games that he has an endless parade of hits. lets count them all, shall we. oh wait THERE ARE NONE!!! hey jackass, instead of telling others "how to be indie" try making your own game and have it be a massive hit!and let us not forget david's infinate wisdom: "Avoiding Photorealistic Art Direction" gee, tell that to pixel, the creator of cave story, which is the most successful indie game in recent memory. see, he makes games that he wants to see, he doesn't listen to posers like you. go play some american piece of trash and let creators create whatever they want!!

  • FrieChamp
    • February 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM
    • #14
    Quote from somerandomnuthead

    Photorealistic Art Direction

    Quote from somerandomnuthead

    cave story

    [Blocked Image: http://www.gametunnel.com/images/06reviews/cave_story_03.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/eot_mapcore/smilie.gif]

  • zaphod
    • February 27, 2008 at 8:06 PM
    • #15

    is that a photograph or a screenshot?

  • dux
    • February 27, 2008 at 8:08 PM
    • #16

    There's always one asshole who has to make something of it.

  • FrieChamp
    • February 27, 2008 at 8:12 PM
    • #17
    Quote from zaphod

    is that a photograph or a screenshot?

    I'm afraid we will never know...

  • Buddy
    • February 27, 2008 at 9:18 PM
    • #18
    Quote from FrieChamp

    I'm afraid we will never know...

    And I thought that Crysis looked somewhat photoreal...

  • zaphod
    • February 27, 2008 at 10:11 PM
    • #19

    I noticed someone tried to put it on digg here is the link if you want to digg it

    http://digg.com/pc_games/Nine_Paths_To_ ... _Greatness

  • Izuno
    • February 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
    • #20

    Nice article Zappy! Monetization FTW!

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