GDC: Indie Games wrap-up

A grinning Greg Costikyan:

"Independent games are still the pimple on the game industry's ass ..."
... "but still, things are looking up!"

Eric Zimmerman:

"The www had its 10th anniversary what, some time ago, but.. wait, Jonathan Blow is laughing at me.. but 3 or 4 GDCs ago, we had a change of emphasis. Consoles were where we always wanted to be. The 'real' game industry, right? Then there was a huge malaise, encapsulated in a game design keynote given by Warren Spector, and I think he sort of angered a lot of people with this talk about licensed games, and how his dream was to do a, I don't know what, a Scooby Doo game... I realised that year that, you know what, why are we aspiring to wanting to enter the larger games industry? There's no way we could do this interesting work that we're doing now..."

Derek Yu:

"I would say indie games are one cheek of the butt, and the games industry is the other cheek. We need the industry to put on the right pants, so we can be the two cheeks of the same butt working together ... "

Audience falls about.

Comments

[Sulka]

Heh, Eric _really_ said was "The Internet had its 10th anniversary what, a couple years ago, no wait a second, I mean the web obviously, and now Jonathan Blow is laughing at me so I must have said something wrong..."

That was the most fun talk of the conference this far.