• nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      1 year ago

      Worms games developer and are now a publisher that published a bunch of known indie games like Dredge, Blasphemous, Trepang2 etc…

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        1 year ago

        Honest question: are those really indie games if they have a publisher?

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          1 year ago

          Yes.

          In general:

          • AAA - big budget for both development and marketing; these usually make news headlines, regardless of quality, and most people hear of them
          • AA - usually focus on some niche with a moderate to high dev budget and moderate marketing budget; so something like Paradox or perhaps Double Fine (before MSFT acquisition)
          • indie - low budget games, usually through “bootstrapping”; some of these make headlines, but those are outliers

          Publishing is a separate discussion entirely. Some AAA games are self published, some use a separate publisher. Same goes for indies and AA games. I think it’s a lot less likely that indies will self publish because they just don’t have the skillset to market a game.

          I mostly buy indie and AA games because they tend to need to focus on some core game loop and can’t just throw the kitchen sink in like AAAs often can.