Once again, I wasn\u2019t there. I don\u2019t know when it will happen but I hope it will one day.<\/p>\n
Of course, it\u2019s becoming very predictable now. I haven\u2019t even covered it last year. I feel like we\u2019re avoiding the same issues, making the same mistakes and pushing the same \u201crealistic\u201d goal over and over. It was the last game design challenge and I hope it will reborn somewhere else, it was very inspiring. \/sad face<\/p>\n
It looks like the industry is now paying attention to more personal and small projects -thanks Minecraft- which is good but obvious as this is where the most exciting things are coming from since 1845. Indie doesn\u2019t mean anything now, that\u2019s good too. Names, people, faces, regardless of your contract or platform where you release on, that\u2019s much better.<\/p>\n
A lot of discussion about free to play but nothing changed: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn\u2019t. I think developers shouldn\u2019t focus so much on it. If they can afford to make a free to play game fine but to me it looks like you need to eat too. I want to educate people on how the small-transaction-between-you-and-me thing is the fairest business, make them learn that it\u2019s worth it to help me out making this awesome shit. Really on the Chris Hecker wagon on this one.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m concerned about the total lack of noise around the app store problem and censorship. It\u2019s amazing how \u201cbrand loyalty\u201d can block people from opening their mouths. Imagine Microsoft leading the store paradigm, censoring games. OMFG the GDC would have been all about leaving the platform. It is once again the kind of stuff where I see how immature we are.<\/p>\n
The problem at the end is that we\u2019re barely starting to benefit from digital distribution and we\u2019re already giving all its power to middle men. It\u2019s not that distribution is everything but yes, it kind of is business-wise. We have this window to keep things in control and this window is closing up. <\/p>\n
Layoffs en masse were not in the conversation either like it\u2019s not connected to what\u2019s going on, like if there was a barrier between big publishers and developers (which doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s the same people going in and out and now more out than in). People are still amazed at how the AAA business doesn\u2019t work anymore<\/a>, when it\u2019s not news. Gotta connect the dots, yo.<\/p>\n Oh game development frustration, you are a bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again, I wasn\u2019t there. I don\u2019t know when it will happen but I hope it will one day. Of course, it\u2019s becoming very predictable now. I haven\u2019t even covered it last year. I feel like we\u2019re avoiding the same issues, making the same mistakes and pushing the same \u201crealistic\u201d goal over and over. It […]<\/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\/1599"}],"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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}