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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days agoWhat we think of as the rise of indie gaming was when they started getting publishers to promote them. You needed one in order to be listed on XBLA back in the day.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Xbox 360 and Summer of Arcade are major pillars in bringing indie games into the spotlight around exactly that era. There may have been Darwinia and Ragdoll Kung Fu on Steam at the time, but it was the likes of Braid, Super Meat Boy, Bastion and such that really came up within the XBLA promotions.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I played quite a bit of Pocket Tanks, but there’s a huge gulf between that and the public consciousness that came up around indie games in the summers of arcade.