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WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 4 months ago

Diffrulences between indie, AA, and AAA

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Diffrulences between indie, AA, and AAA

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    Since you include AA you should’ve included AAAA games too

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      CR2032 games would be nice too

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    ConcernedApe 🥰

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    The real magic starts when you assemble 7 beautiful european transgenders but the world is not ready for this probably

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      All other games would pale in comparison to this hypothetical game

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      African… Eurasian… American… Oceanian…

      Long ago, the four transgenders lived together in harmony.

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        1984 is just Avatar, but the fire nation genocided one and all turned into fire nations.

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      laika: aged through blood

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      Bonus points if they name it “Woke Mind Virus” and it turns the Windows computers gay

      • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        “turns the Windows computers gay” also known as installing Linux

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    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
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      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
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        The bottom 2 apply to AAA games

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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      Sometimes indies do very well, after which they don’t release anything new for at least 5 years.

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        That’s a good thing - helps keep the quality level up, and leaves room for other indies.

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        Then theres terraria, almost 14 years and still getting updates

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          Also Minecraft

          • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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            Famous indie game minecraft.

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              I mean it was until the Microsoft acquisition.

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          “final update you guys, I can quit any time!” - Redigit, consistently for the past 12 years

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          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

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        Did you mean: Toby Fox?

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        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.

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    I’m drunk, but “Team Size: 7 Europeans” for AA is killing me.

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      I’m sober and it holds up

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    There are two types of indie games, cozy games for transbians and ultrakill

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      Which one is Dwarf Fortress?

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        Yes

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        Cozy game obviously.

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      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-ultracrop

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        Idk as a Transfem, very tempting :3

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          don’t let your dreams be dreams, go buy those booty shorts Queen ✨

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    I’ve been enjoying the shit out of Headliners, which feels like a game that kinda emerged from a pile of unreal assets they found at the bottom of a box of VHS tapes at a flea market.

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    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

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      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.

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      I try to avoid using nouns in general for folks (because it’s hard to tell through online/voice calls and I end up forgetting due to bad brain), so I end up just using they/them, you, or something more abstract (gamers, pals, friendos) to refer to people.

      While I haven’t engaged in using trans as a noun, I’d imagine others would for simplicity’s sake, at least in their mind.

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      I think the usage there isn’t meant to be correct, but incorrect as a joke. It’s like how I’ve seen people call themselves a tran. (Trans is obviously plural.)

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        I hadn’t read that yet and laughed at that joke for a solid minute.

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        they do be enallage sometimes!

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      What about trans men and trans non-binary people?

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        Same as with trans women the trans is still an adjective, i don’t know why that would change. If you want to talk about multiple categories of trans people, you can just use trans people or something similar. If you’re talking about my example at the end there it’s because i literally am a trans woman and was talking about myself.

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        men and enbies ! or whatever they prefer

        Yoiu can say trans alone in some contexts such as “I know someone who is trans”

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    “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

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      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.

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        As someone that played it that’s very generous.

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          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.

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            You didn’t list Morrowind so clearly you at least know your place N’wah.

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      Let us not forget that the original Kerbal Space Program was made by a team in a marketing company.

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    Some indie games do have a publisher. It’s usually a smaller publisher but still a publisher.

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      By definition, that would make them not indie. Actually, there needs to be separate terms for a game that is “indie style” vs “independent of a publisher or parent company”,

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    Metroid and Zelda baby games? We gonna need to have a word with your friend…

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      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.

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        Metroid got me with the Bomb in the crystal hall, I admit I did not thought of that and got stuck.

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    Surprisingly accurate.

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      Very much so.

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      I don’t have a stream 😭

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    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.

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      Or they write it without an engine.

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      Space Station 14 my dearly beloved,
      And also mindustry

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      Or 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.

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        Stardew valley as well iirc.

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        I can also chip in with HROT, the engine for which was coded from the ground up in Pascal.

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