{"id":2121,"date":"2016-03-06T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2016-03-06T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:24:12","slug":"indie-games-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/03\/indie-games-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie games the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent game development was about professionals making a living making games without the constraint of dealing with a publisher, that relationship being more often than not abusive.<\/p>\n<p>Independent game development became \u201cindie\u201d games, a nostalgia-induced aesthetic both built by small teams of professionals and amateurs. Making a living making games \u2013which is what game developers describe as \u201cbeing able to make another game\u201d- became optional.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s disappointing that we keep forgetting about sustainability in this business. When even to this day really good, experienced game developers with all the privilege required \u2013aka money- barely break even with their games when we never had more players playing games. It is a big big issue.<\/p>\n<p>We need cheat codes at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent game development was about professionals making a living making games without the constraint of dealing with a publisher, that relationship being more often than not abusive. Independent game development became \u201cindie\u201d games, a nostalgia-induced aesthetic both built by small teams of professionals and amateurs. Making a living making games \u2013which is what game developers [&hellip;]<\/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\/2121"}],"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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}