Gamasutra - Nine Paths To Indie Game Greatness

[zaphod]

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]

Nice article zappy, congrats on getting it up there!

[R_Yell]

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

[Taylor]

Quality.

[Furyo]

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]

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

[ReNo]

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]

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

[Ginger Lord]

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

Nice article though!

[e-freak]

yes - very nice read.

[Thrik]

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

It's included in some unabridged dictionaries.

[Ginger Lord]

Its still a horrible mash up of the English language

[zaphod]

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

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]

Photorealistic Art Direction

cave story

[zaphod]

is that a photograph or a screenshot?