Talk:Indie game development

message: "During the 1990s, indie games were most commonly distributed as shareware or shared from friend to friend and therefore known as "shareware games". [original research?]" But if you read history of shareware they rather mention shareware as a model for established game companies (and small companies alike). The sentence may be removed? Trilarion (talk) 14:23, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Shareware in the 90s

message: User:Knoland recreated List of independent game developers in March 2006. When I found it, it mentioned PopCap Games and Flying Lab Software. I've added Flying Lab to List_of_indie_game_developers (PopCap was already there) and changed List of independent game developers into a redirect to List_of_indie_game_developers. —Chris Chittleborough 10:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: April 2006

message: This article needs to indicate what differentiates an independent developer from a non-independent.  Size can't be it.  Whether or not you publish your own games or not can't be it surely?  Is Nintendo an Independent developer?  Who do they depend on?  Is a 1 man developer / publisher non-independent because they are also a publisher?  The article as it stands is a lot of waffle without justification as to what an independent developer really means.
ZhuLien 01:51, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Differentiation between Independent and non-Independent needed

message: I've just reorganised the "See also" section to use 3 columns. I noticed that we have articles about Game Tunnel and Independent Games Festival but only mentioned them in External Links, so I added "See also" links to those articles and dropped GT and IGF from external links. I also added a link to Manifesto Games.
In addition, I changed the descriptions of all 4 remaining links. Note that my descriptions of GameTrove and madmonkey are rather uninformative. (I just grabbed the first halfway decent quote I found on their websites.) Someone please put better descriptions into the article.
Cheers, CWC(talk) 09:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 2006 edits 

message: while Cheapass Games is a great company, "independent tabletop game development" is the rule, not the exception, and pretty much every single tabletop game developer (with the possible exception of Wizards of the Coast and other developers owned by Hasbro) falls well within the definition of what would be considered "indie" in the video game industry.
Therefore I removed the section about them (and "indie tabletop gaming" in general) from the intro. Luvcraft 00:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cheapass games 

message: Are some of the links questionable or is it just me?  They're all about Indie games, for sure, but some of them seem a bit too much like free advertising.  Also, some of the sites may not be notable.  Anyone have an opinion?  Should I remove the tag?  -- Solberg 09:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Two of them were pretty much entirely not notable, and I removed them. The other links are all good indie gaming websites and well-known by those in the indie scene, so I kept them there. I'd want someone else to look over it for a second opinion, but I think the link problem is fixed. Simply MP (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam? 

message: The article very clearly needs to cite more sources, and makes many bizarre assertions - why 'up to 10' developers? Why are 'RPGs, roguelikes or Flash games' easier than other genres/mediums? And, knock me down with a feather, more complexity takes more time - who'd have thought? Dan MacDonald's articles at Gametunnel may be a help with regard to the dearth of sources, and it would be helpful if similar commentary on the industry was added to the talk page to provide further - and more diverse - material. - AlKing464 (talk) 21:26, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Citing, Quality etc. 

message: Added the "part of the video game industry series" box, as surely this fits right in. I don't know why it wasn't there in the first place. Not sure if I have to announce anywhere that I added it.—  H3llkn0wz  ▎talk  01:58, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  VG Industry box 

message: I don't think enough has been provided on independent video game culture which has a very large following as the scene offers a lot of new, fresh ideas to the industry at large. There are a lot of great popular indie games that could also be included as references to how the scene has created such great innovation. It is also slightly lacking on the history and a lot more could be said.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bwrightau (talk • contribs) 15:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More in depth analysis of the culture and its benefits 

message: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6298425/index.html?tag=nl.e578 Enjoy! Axem Titanium (talk) 20:37, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: This article was outdated and ill-researched when it was published and is even more so now. Some points made show the author's lack of knowledge in regard to Valve's policies and he covers these holes with logical fallacies to boot.
I shall not delete it, yet, but highly recommend it be replaced with a more appropriate and neutral article.
PinothyJ (talk) 17:08, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I did go as far as deleting it. The text on this article, "it is becoming increasingly difficult for PC developers to make a profit" is not supported by the source, and the source is so far away from a good or reliable one that there's no justification for including it anywhere. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 18:35, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Five reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry 

message: The definition of "indie game" is vague, as stated in the indie game article. I've tried to align the opening with that article, but that brought up another thought: what exactly is this article doing that indie game isn't / can't do? They're repeating much of the same sorts of information, but this article has far less citation coverage. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 18:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap with [[indie game]] 

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