I find that a lot of
independent games struggle from poorly recorded voice over and lackluster music.
Not exact matches
Audiences will feel the pressure and pain right along with these designers as they
struggle with their creativity and the more practical side of
independent video
game creation.
1st Production Department is
independent, even if party owned, and Nomura and team are not
struggling, but keep getting drafted to other WOOOONDERFUL
games like the Lightning saga, which is why progress has been so slow.
One nominee in the Excellence in Narrative category of the 2013
Independent Games Festival (the industry's Sundance, in a sense) was Dys4ia, a
game by Oakland - based designer and author Anna Anthropy, about the intimate
struggle she endured undergoing hormone therapy for gender transition.
Barlow says more indie
games should use video, as
independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV)
game genre on computers in the 1990s —
games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but
struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that
game with them.
When it was first leveraged as a way to earn money to fund the development of
independent video
games, it was lauded as the new bastion for indie
game development, a ray of light in a place where so many small developers
struggled to gain any traction on their projects.