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Fascinating read, but it feels like a good third of the article was the author self-importantly talking about himself. You could fairly skip to the first headin
by nness 13y ago
Fascinating read, but it feels like a good third of the article was the author self-importantly talking about himself. You could fairly skip to the first heading, "The Set-Up", and not lose a single bit if insight.
- nols 13y agoI think he was just too close, he was making a lot of assumptions about how much the average reader knew about indie game development and his role in it. It just might be pretty standard for Indie Statik though, I´ve never read or heard of it before.
- arrrg 13y agoYeah, as someone with just a casual interest in indie games (I had heard of the names of three of the developers before read a lot of and about two of them) and that whole YouTube thing (I know two or so of the mentioned YouTube people) this story was pretty easy to follow. For someone outside of that it must be much, much harder to follow. It could certainly be improved for a more general audience but I’m not even sure whether the author thought this story would blow up like it did. (And yeah, the article does start slow, but I think that’s mostly driven by the author’s desire to really clarify and explain his complicated relationship to the organisers.)
- Gracana 13y agoI appreciated the backstory about the author. It explained his connection with the organizations and people involved, and I think that helped give weight to what he said.