{"id":1292,"date":"2011-07-28T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/07\/some-questions-and-answers\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T16:51:56","slug":"some-questions-and-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/07\/some-questions-and-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Some questions (and answers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Which makes me think:<\/p>\n

– Why everybody\u2019s doing an iOS game or trying to, despite so many warnings about walled garden and platform power?<\/p>\n

– Same question with Facebook and how G+ would be different?<\/p>\n

– Why HTML5 still fucking sucks so much? It\u2019s never going to be enough is it?<\/p>\n

– Why when big indie names are going exclusive on a platform, nobody says that it\u2019s wrong? How come a risky project would do better on ONE platform, let alone when that one is not the most used out there? I think both TGC\u2019s Journey and Sound Shapes<\/a> would kill it on \u201cthe Internet\u201d<\/em> so much more. <\/p>\n

– Why nobody talks about the fact that \u201cthe Internet\u201d<\/em> is happening on computers which more often than not, run Windows? Is it that bad to aim at the biggest \u201cInternet\u201d<\/em> platform when making a game is such a hard task or should we always say that we\u2019re making a game for Steam? <\/p>\n

– Why simple distribution schemes like Tricky Truck<\/a> or Minecraft are not embraced?<\/p>\n

– Why people forget about how ID and Epic made their fortune, selling disks through mail orders and how it\u2019s even easier to distribute games today? Yes, indies could live without \u201cthe Internet\u201d<\/em>. They did, by making different games because carbon copies of SMB3 weren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n

– Why indie games are more often than not personal remakes of classics?<\/p>\n

– Why so many indie games feel like developers just want to cash out with ads over a simple physics-based gimmick?<\/p>\n

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I think I will conclude like Tarn from Dwarf Fortress fame<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t with indies or platforms so much as it\u2019s with society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which makes me think: – Why everybody\u2019s doing an iOS game or trying to, despite so many warnings about walled garden and platform power? – Same question with Facebook and how G+ would be different? – Why HTML5 still fucking sucks so much? It\u2019s never going to be enough is it? – Why when big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}