Renaissance
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005Awesome. Now even MMOs are open to indie development. I think we could really be seeing a major shift in the games industry. As independent game development becomes more viable there will be a shift toward the individual auteur-game-designer building their project. In any art form the most creative pieces come from the mind of individuals. A panel of game designers in a boardroom at EA can no more design a great game than a panel of studio executives at Universal can create a great movie. Not that the big studios will disappear; they will still serve to promote, distribute, and finance games, just as movie studios do now. We could be entering a golden age for games.







