An indie dev’s response to NYT’s “Games Can’t Afford To Look This Good” and the meme of “I want smaller games with less graphics and I’m not kidding”.

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    14 hours ago

    Something important to remember is how many great franchises or games were originally made by a very small (or “indie”) team. Zelda, Tetris, Mario, Minecraft, Sonic, Civ, and others. Each eventually either grew massively or were bought out by a bigger corporation later. Indie games may not be our savior, but so many mainstream games started out small. It seems to me that the smaller the team, the bigger the innovation.

    Somebody is gonna try to fact check me on this, so I’ll just say my point is you can’t have a healthy gaming industry without a healthy indie industry too, IMHO.