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Now if you're an independent developer... I think that's tough. Not impossible but tough... As much as I would try to inspire you to believe that the garage model might work, I think it's hard. |
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by mreverdred01 - 2008-02-10 |
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What about PSN and XBL downloadable games? Those are extremely simple. You would need to make the investment of around $10,000 for the developer's package, but that money would come back to you if your game was good.
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by SynGamer - 2008-02-10 |
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...with EA's outlook. With the number of programs available to make games with high-er end computers, 'Garage Studios' are still entirely possible. And you don't even need to make a complete game, just start one, get the basics, and sell the idea.
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by lavino - 2008-02-10 |
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All you need to write game is a PC or Mac. Although you lack the tools like DirectX and SDK and etc... Writing games is all about how you can put together a bunch of code (assembly if necessary). Nowaday to do games for consoles you need license, you need approval, you need their dev SDK, you need publisher etc etc. The industry itself is making all these impossible (or in a way they wanna make money before you can even start writing the first line of code). So, in a way EA's CEO is right if it is dev for consoles. However, once in a while some cool idea will come out from a bunch of garage coders. They might not have the tools/funding but their ideas out shine the big corps.
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by kittykat - 2008-02-10 |
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Development costs are not the real reason why games are becoming less innovative, that is merely an excuse. Game developers could look at all the Flash games that people are developing and offer to buy their ideas or invite them to help in the creation of an innovative game. It's been done before, and not many people would turn down a sum of cash plus royalties for something they created for fun with little or no expectations for financial gain in the first place.
I believe that it is us, the consumers, who are mostly to blame for the lack of innovation in video games. Yes, you read that right. When we purchase a game we vote for what game developers do next with our dollars, the moire successful a game is the more likely game developers are to apply the same efforts into creating the next game.
The solution: Do your research. Download a demo or rent the game first, after checking out a few game trailers to decide whether or not the game is worth your attention. Purchase only innovative games, and game developers will only create innovative games. Purchase crap, and they will create more crap.
As for the rest of the article, I do agree with the notion that developing games into a finished commercial quality product on a console system from your home is hard these days, with all the costs and red tape required just to get the game into a store where people can purchase it.
HOWEVER, that only applies to console systems. People could still develop games for the PC and sell them using a web site without need for an expensive license, so the idea of a garage gaming company might remain out of the mainstream but will likely never completely go away.
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