Submitted 3 weeks ago by Azrael@lemmy.ca to games@lemmy.world
After the “Dave the Diver” nomination for Best indie Game at the Game Awards, I’ve been struggling to draw a clear line here.
I feel like, yes, Dave the Diver feels very Indie to “me” but it’s hard to say that of the studio itself.
Is the “Indie feel” something bigger studios might look to imitate in the future?
I might get behind something like that.
Little Bit Planet
So GOOD!!! You are right…
Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps?
Made by a smaller studio but published by Microsoft
That was my very first thought. It has all of the indie vibes, but was published by the OG evil tech company.
Abso-fricking-lutely!
Chimera Squad and Hi-Fi Rush jump to mind — is that the sort of thing you have in mind?
Yeah! Exactly like those!
A super old one, but Grow Home from Ubisoft was a really cute little game that felt like nothing else from them.
Yeah! I can see that! Unravel comes to mind too (Out of nowhere)
Grow and Grow Up by a studio owned by Ubisoft. Cool little games though.
Dave the Diver
Fe. It’s a small game by a small studio but was published by EA of all people.
All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.
Forgot about Child of Light! Striking visuals on it, too!
Hi-Fi Rush has a kinda indie vibe. Tango Gameworks studio isn’t huge, but they’ve made fairly well known AAA survival horror games. HiFi is more narrowly focused but still published by Bethesda/Microsoft.
An EA published game series for the first 2 entries, but Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 1 and 2. Still on entry 1, so I’d like to avoid spoilers, but they definitely feel indie compared to every single triple AAA game that’s come out in the past well over a decade due to the passion you can tell had to be out in for the game to have sold well.
Also learned the 4th game wasn’t even available on PS2 because of its’ 2015 launch, so if I ever get around to finishing the first 3, I gotta get it on PC because there ain’t no way I’m buying a copy for switch.
Huh, I didn’t realize it was made by Nexon.
Super Mario 64
Dave the Diver
indiegameculture.com/…/geoff-keighley-talks-dave-…
The game may look indie, but a subsidiary of Nexon, a massive game studio in Korea, developed it.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
To further muddy the water we had Baldur’s Gate 3, which was made by an independent studio with AAA budget.
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah 100% I was getting this thought.