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CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t forget AA, doing pretty good too.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, AA and indie make up >90% of my gaming dollars and hours.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then the AAA studios will use some of their Saudi cash to buy out the most prominent indie developers, only to slowly strangle their products

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t this how the gaming boom and bust cycle always worked?

    Indie(ish) games boom, AAA studios buy them and make them bust.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not necessarily. Minecraft kinda went that way, but Factorio is still independent, and they were both released around the same time.

      AAA games are often based on someone else’s IPs (e.g. Tom Clancy) or derived from a successful competitor (e.g. indie games). But I haven’t seen a ton of cases where the indie studio was bought outright.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On a pedestrian level, I’ve really liked the slow move from “SNES aesthetic” to “PS1/PS2 aesthetic”. My first console was an N64, so I guess I never had much nostalgia for the 8-bit days, and I feel like 3D gives a lot of opportunities for intelligent asset reuse to give a game lots of content.

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  • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Genuine curiosity: does 3D really give more opportunities for asset reuse than 2D does?

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes! For instance, say you’re making a character action game about big flashy jumping attacks. It took a long time to make the attack animations and now you need to provide the player with unlockables to encourage exploring, or some DLC.

      If you have a 2D game, you’d need to do a LOT to integrate any new cosmetics, or characters, into your existing protagonist. But in 3D, if your character finds a hat, it’s very simple to just attach it to the model. Even swapping to a new playable character, you can retarget animations as long as proportions are similar.

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      • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m still not quite getting your point, sorry. Why would 3D make it easier to attach a hat to the character or retarget animations than 2D? That seems like a specific engine feature limitation and not inherently a shortcoming of 2D in general? It sounds like you’re comparing 3D to a primitive 2D engine where you need to manually draw and animate everything on screen instead of to a modern 2D engine with character bones, parenting, etc. Perhaps I’m actually out of the loop regarding the current limitations of 2D game engines and am thinking more in terms of a comparison between 3D and 2D animation software.

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  • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see the points that you made to another commenter but SNES and Sega Genesis were 16-bit consoles. They were a dramatic improvement (and many games on them were the pinnacle as far as I’m concerned) over the 8-bit NES and Sega Master System. I’ll take well-designed 16-bit games over pretty much anything else.

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• meisterah@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I suggest you play some classics.

  Indie games pale in comparison.

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  • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are some examples of classics and indies you have in mind?

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    • meisterah@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Play Symphony of the Night instead of the indie knockoff.

      The indie market is just another tool to reduce people’s standards.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, Terraria and Stardew Valley constantly releasing new content for free is lowering standards… 🙄

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      • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So it sounds like you’re talking about knockoffs and not indies in general. Trying to make them equivalent ignores that the majority of game design innovation has come from indie games for many years.

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      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Symphony was incredible for the time, but its difficulty was all over the place and pretty much becomes zero in late-game. Many, many Metroidvanias by indie developers have far surpassed SotN in quality.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Both are great. Here are some great indies:

        • Factorio
        • Hollow Knight
        • Subnautica
        • Celeste
        • Hades
        • Tunic

        That covers a wide range of genres, none are particularly derivative, and those are just off the top of my head.

        I play great classics all the time, but I also play great new indies.

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