Subscribing to Indie Games
Indie Games are usually released for free. It's not about making money but about the love for creating games, or maybe more often it wouldn't sell anyway and once an indie developer is approached by a publisher; heck yes, they'll sell it!
Anyway, I think it would be nice for people to be able to subscribe to Indie Game releases. Imagine a client similar to Steam, adding perhaps one game per week chosen by a Indie gaming community. Maybe by voting or perhaps by a knowledgable jury?
Personally I don't play as much Indie Games as I want to, and a lot of what I play honestly isn't all that good but if there was a service for me to easily get my hands on free quality Indie Games, I would definately sign up! It would be a good opportunity for more people to experience this kind of games; people that don't normally visit Indie Communities to download games. I might be wrong here but I don't think it's easy for just anyone to get "into" the Indie scene.
There aren't all that many distribution channels for indies to "normal people", except for the biggest and most succesful games.
http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Indie/ (19/7/2009)
This is just me thinking out lout again. Over and out.
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July 20th, 2009 - 09:31
I tried Democracy 1 and 2 but regardless of them being ‘indy’ the idea behind them was still thinking way too much within the box . Not only that, it had already been tried in the 80′s (Hidden Agenda).
Other than that I don’t think I ever tried any …
But yeah, it would be nice if there was a platform like that. A website would do, though. Steam is just a website inside a program to me. (I’m simple that way)
Why don’t you start an indy game portal?
July 20th, 2009 - 10:34
@joshua lindberg
Well, there are already a bunch of sites about the topic, like http://www.indiegames.com/
They have top-lists and whatnot, but they still require the user to continiously take action to find and download the games.
I doubt I’d make a successful portal but thanks for the encouragement.
July 20th, 2009 - 12:32
Never saw that website before, going to take a look around.
None of these games look very enticing. They all remind me of the free flash games that can be found everywhere.. (Or do those fall under ‘indy’ as well?)
I guess ‘indy’ programmers lack the funds to hire a professional studio and engine license but do all the games have to look like some kind of fusion between the 80′s and Sponge Bob?
Must say Penumbra looks interesting.. Will try that out in the future.
July 20th, 2009 - 16:34
@joshua lindberg
Flash Game more than often fall under the “indie”-category.
“all the games have to look like some kind of fusion between the 80’s and Sponge Bob?”
Hahaha! I personally love pixel art. Indie is a like a sub culture on its own.