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Full extent of Team17 cuts threaten third of the company - sources (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest question: are those really indie games if they have a publisher?

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Indie makes reference to an independent developer that is often self funded irregardless of how the final game is distributed.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes.

In general:

  • AAA - big budget for both development and marketing; these usually make news headlines, regardless of quality, and most people hear of them
  • AA - usually focus on some niche with a moderate to high dev budget and moderate marketing budget; so something like Paradox or perhaps Double Fine (before MSFT acquisition)
  • indie - low budget games, usually through "bootstrapping"; some of these make headlines, but those are outliers

Publishing is a separate discussion entirely. Some AAA games are self published, some use a separate publisher. Same goes for indies and AA games. I think it's a lot less likely that indies will self publish because they just don't have the skillset to market a game.

I mostly buy indie and AA games because they tend to need to focus on some core game loop and can't just throw the kitchen sink in like AAAs often can.