Going indie from scratch means going no income for years for a project that may never succeed, not everyone can afford the risk. Existing indie studio have very limited hiring capacity compared to the amount of people getting laid off from big companies.
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Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games.
knuk@piefed.ca 2 months ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
AFAIK Schedule 1 is developed by a single dev still in college.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees
GardenGeek@europe.pub 2 months ago
What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess…
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won’t have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game.