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This is kind of what I like about Japanese e.g. Comiket culture. The official Touhou circle table is just a table like every artist in the hall (well, maybe po
by lazycog512 3y ago
This is kind of what I like about Japanese e.g. Comiket culture.
The official Touhou circle table is just a table like every artist in the hall (well, maybe positioned to accommodate the wait line). People will have favorites, but it's an equalizer. Touhou itself is that root - some drunk programmer releases his random game with memes in it and ends up being The Guy.
Western indie gaming... kind of lost that spirit.
I vibe more with the meritous sort of game more than some elements of WIG - there's no profit, it's just some guy that busted out libSDL and other free software and made a game with it. He even released the source GPL'd eventually.
- schemescape 3y agoIs there a specific game you're referring to?
- johnnyanmac 3y agowas doomed from the start. western society is so separatated from each other, literally. Japan is a large island but still a country that is roughly the size of California. They have long since made public transportation that can carry you to the other side of the country in a matter of hours. It's so much easier to do local meetups. Meanwhile California has been working on its interstate railway for... 25 years now? Still a long ways to go too. And that's a single state housing ~16% of a single country, a country some 25x larger in land.