Ordet"indie" förekommer mer än någonsin i spelvärlden just nu. Det är indietitlar från indieutvecklare hit och dit och nu verkar många ha tröttnat på ordet och kallar det en anakronism. Under Gamescom-veckan passade flera profiler inom branschen på att uttala sig kring begreppet.
"Can you do an indie game with 100 people? It's a very interesting question," frågar sig Michel Ancel, aktuell med Wild som visades under Sonys konferens.
"We shouldn't say ‘indie game'. Now we should say ‘really innovative game,' not especially based on production values and millions of dollars. We could say an indie game is a pixel [product] that costs ten bucks, but I think it's more than this. It's a game from real people that have passion and vision, and they can express that vision. This is what could define an indie game."
Rex Crowle från Media Molecule är inne på samma spår:
"You can have a very indie game that's actually a very generic first-person shooter, and you can have an enormous, big-budget, triple-A game that's all about emotions. Those divides are not there anymore."
Det är inte bara utvecklare själva som menar att konceptet "indie" borde slopas. Europeiska Sony Worldwide Studios-chefen Michael Denny tycker också att begrepet har blivit diffust:
"Hellblade called itself independent, and traditionally I think people think about indie games as smaller, two- or three-man teams,"
"I think it does show where we've been going in the games development cycle. When we set out with PlayStation 4 we just wanted a system that would free up the creators and bring everybody to the platform, and I think one size doesn't fit all with indie development now."
Vad tycker ni? Är "indie" ett förlegat ord? Vad betyder det för dig?
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