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There's never been a better time to be an indie developer, particularly on the PC. Marketing remains difficult, but now there are virtually no barriers. Digital
by TillE 13y ago
There's never been a better time to be an indie developer, particularly on the PC. Marketing remains difficult, but now there are virtually no barriers. Digital distribution and engines like Unity have changed everything.
Steam has its problems, and I wish they'd just shift to an Apple-style app store model with a curated storefront. But in general, they've been a huge boon to independent developers.
- mehrzad 13y ago>I wish they'd just shift to an Apple-style app store model If they lowered the minimum prices too, I wouldn't mind. But right now Steam has a lot of third-rate "side-project" games that are lower quality than free flash games online charging the price of a very good iOS/Android game and it's getting annoying. Now, I'm not one to think saturation with lower quality/more indie stuff is always bad (especially with music, for example) but it seems with the ubiquity of PC game development as a hobby, a decent amount of crap is a byproduct.
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