Fuck yeah, cut the corpos out of the hobby space.
As a budding game developer, watching mobile games dominate all the game awards is so incredibly frustrating.
My first game award, I watched those Farmville motherfuckers take award after award, while amazing indie games are given lip service but not the trophy.
Triple I as in triple Indie? That’s cute as hell, I love it. I’m all for III over AAA.
Yeah, it took me a moment to get it, but then I was like “oh, neat! That’s very clever”
Successful indies helping out the indie industry is the only way it’ll grow, a big award show that gets people’s eyes is the kind of marketing most developers could only dream of. But they a really going to have to treat each nomination as a commercial, people need to be sold on these games
Assuming they don’t just pick the devs that were already thinking of. If it’s just that then it’s probably pointless
I nominate Daniel Mullins for III god award!
The only way it will grow? Man, the indie scene was pretty much non existent 20 years ago and now it rivals major studios in number of concurrent players
Yeah, and it’s pretty much hit a wall. Both because of massive oversaturation causing people to not be able to find new interesting things amongst the 100 new titles released daily, ans because indy studios can’t find any funding at all anymore.
okay, that is awesome
Looking forward to it!
I don’t know what’s going on with this headline; it’s not an awards show, just a showcase. Although I understand how events like The Game Awards blur the line between the two.
Makes me feel like Game News Season (or whatever we’re calling it post-E3) is coming up quick.
Hopefully this showcase is successful enough to become a tradition. It would be nice to have an indie-focused showcase that doesn’t have to juggle their time between the games, advertisements, and sponsors.
At this point, it would be cool to have a gaming event at all that doesn’t invite random Hollywood celebrities instead of actual game developers
“OMG, those nerds have had 20 full seconds to talk? WRAP IT UP”
(for those who don’t know Game Awards really did this. The few acceptance speeches that were there were very short, and winners were all told to “WRAP IT UP” via teleprompter and cut with music. 11 minutes of them talking in total, for a 3-hour-long show)
They shoulda been really cheeky and called it the quadruple-I game awards. Missed opportunity.
