Some indie games do have a publisher. It’s usually a smaller publisher but still a publisher.
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indie target audience should read “a second, equally beautiful transgender”
otherwise this is good
I’m an indie dev who’s not trans, and my target audience is “whoever likes my games, IDK”.
“office supplies company trying to diversify portfolio” describes some real gems of video games
i would tentatively place Super Beat Sports in there, its on Switch now but it was written as a rhythm game for Apple TV
Kingdoms of Amalur was funded as a state tax write off and almost bankrupted Rhode Island, hands down one of the greatest games there has ever been.
As someone that played it that’s very generous.
That game is S++ tier, even if you’re judging it on combat and class mechanics alone. It is a perfect game. Better than Skyrim. Better than Fable. I will fight you.
You didn’t list Morrowind so clearly you at least know your place N’wah.
Let us not forget that the original Kerbal Space Program was made by a team in a marketing company.
There are two types of indie games, cozy games for transbians and ultrakill
stardew for transbians and ultrakill for femboys
they even sell official ultrakill booty shorts
https://newbloodstore.com/collections/ultrakill/products/ultrakill-booty-shorts
croptops too
https://newbloodstore.com/collections/ultrakill/products/ultrakill-ultracropIdk as a Transfem, very tempting :3
don’t let your dreams be dreams, go buy those booty shorts Queen ✨
Which one is Dwarf Fortress?
Yes
Cozy game obviously.
I’m drunk, but “Team Size: 7 Europeans” for AA is killing me.
I’m sober and it holds up
ConcernedApe 🥰
The real magic starts when you assemble 7 beautiful european transgenders but the world is not ready for this probably
African… Eurasian… American… Oceanian…
Long ago, the four transgenders lived together in harmony.
1984 is just Avatar, but the fire nation genocided one and all turned into fire nations.
Bonus points if they name it “Woke Mind Virus” and it turns the Windows computers gay
“turns the Windows computers gay” also known as installing Linux
Metroid and Zelda baby games? We gonna need to have a word with your friend…
If their friend can beat original Metroid without a walk through, I will consider their opinion. It’s still wrong but I will consider it.
Metroid got me with the Bomb in the crystal hall, I admit I did not thought of that and got stuck.
seven europeans my beloved, thank you for factorio
The dev is a massive bigot :(
I feel less guilty about pirating it now.
Proof?
redlib versions (incase ppl use VPNs reddit detects)
https://redlib.ducks.party/r/GamerGhazi/comments/o34v6h/factorio_founder_rages_about_cancel_culture_after/
https://redlib.ducks.party/r/GirlGamers/comments/o3gnyn/factorio_dev_im_not_defending_that_women_shouldnt/damn that sucks real bad :(
Guh, thats fuckin grim, guess ill have to wait for the seven transgender europeans factory game to come out.
This is news to me as well.
Flicking through my Steam now, may I suggest Satisfactory (AAA-style first person Unreal Engine automation game, devs seem cool, probably the highest profile game after Factorio), Timberborn (beaverpunk, nature themed, less automation heavy), Dyson Sphere Program (Chinese-developed space-themed interplanetary automation), Shapez (minimal 2D automation game, there’s a less minimal sequel), Mindustry (haven’t played it, but seems to be another Factorio-lite).
Distant honorable mention to WRSR, a Soviet themed city building game with so many production chains and interlocking systems that I’d consider it more of an automation game than a city builder. Although it won’t appeal to you if you aren’t into city builders. And I think it especially won’t appeal to you if you’re from a country/family that had an unpleasant Soviet era.
Factorio was inspired by a number of minecraft factory/automation mods, so that’s another option as well! Probably old tekkit
Oh yeah. I’ve poured months of my life into Nomifactory (formerly Omnifactory) and will one day play the even longer Nomifactory CE as a finale. This might be the first time I forget to mention modded MC in this context.
When I played it the first time in 2019 there were a few modded mods to make some tasks easier on setup and on the CPU, since the original mods weren’t made with the sheer volume of automation needed in the pack.
When I replayed it again five years later, there were even more helper mods. Sure setting things up the harder old way was more satisfying the first time, but when you have to build the same setup another eighty times? Give me the streamlined stuff please. It was much less tedious, although I was still vaguely familiar with all the mechanics, which also helped a lot. So did my CPU being like 10 generations newer.
That said, if we’re talking about avoiding shithead devs, Microsoft has finally been included in mainstream boycott discourse, and Notch has always been a bit off. Although I’d assume most people into this stuff must have already gotten the game before. It’s not like I’ve given them any money for it over the past decade+.
Indie technology: Either Godot, some other smaller open source engine, or some heavily specialized open source solution that can only do a few kinds of games but has a small footprint.
Or they write it without an engine.
Space Station 14 my dearly beloved,
And also mindustryOr sometimes just fully built from the ground up. It’s getting less common, but a few notable examples I know of are Minecraft, FTL (and I think Into the Breach), and Rollercoaster Tycoon is a whole story worth looking up.
Stardew valley as well iirc.
The second ugliest assets you’ve ever seen inside the unreal engine with motion blur
Don’t forget DLSS ghosting artifacts!
Okay I gotta ask since I’ve seen it a bunch recently but when did transgender as a noun become accepted. It’s an adjective. I’ve seen trans people be called a Trans multiple times recently and it never got challenged but it always feels icky to me. I’m a transgender woman or a trans woman for short. If you want to shorten it further you may call me a woman but not a trans
If the fucker thinks that Metroid and Zelda are “baby games” you already can tell he’s not the smartest of the bunch. On the other side I never did called someone just “trans” but is good to know that it does matter.
What about trans men and trans non-binary people?
men and enbies ! or whatever they prefer
Yoiu can say trans alone in some contexts such as “I know someone who is trans”
Since you include AA you should’ve included AAAA games too
CR2032 games would be nice too
Future Prospects:
- Bankrupt or bought out by AAA within a year
- Makes 2 more great releases, then see previous
- Makes 5 formulaic releases with a team size that halves each iteration, or engages actively in 1-year contracts or hire-and-dump schemes
Sometimes indies do very well, after which they don’t release anything new for at least 5 years.
Then theres terraria, almost 14 years and still getting updates
or Don’t Starve Together, where the developers add content to the game faster than I can complete it, with animated trailers for every update
“final update you guys, I can quit any time!” - Redigit, consistently for the past 12 years
Also Minecraft
Famous indie game minecraft.
I mean it was until the Microsoft acquisition.
Like the Balatro guy, out there living the dream. Made one great game and got filthy rich and I couldn’t be happier for him.
Did you mean: Toby Fox?
Also could be (applies to indie and AA):
- Updates games constantly to the present day due to low operating costs/no shareholders
- Open source in 5-10 years
- Old games live off modding support, new games are all dead within a year, then repeat cycle
- Steam Sale food for curious gamers, nothing else
The bottom 2 apply to AAA games
