Is this where gaming is headed?

OkyshoOkysho Member Posts: 158
edited November -1 in Miscellaneous
I know this is a bit off note since GS is an iOS developing tool, and a bit more casual based, but for those who are interested in the future of gaming, I want you to watch this video.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2821-Ludus-Florentis

This series is a pretty big inspiration for me, but I wanted to ask the GS community (assuming enough people see this)

Do you believe that this is the direction that video games are headed? and What will you do in order to not get swallowed up by the crowd.

In fact how do you compete in a casual market at all? I know that the iOS market is cheap and very competitive. How do you devs keep from getting swept away along with the other mediocre apps in the app store?

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  • DizkoDizko Member Posts: 498
    Yes it is, and the iOS platform, along with Steam, XBL are the primary drivers in this. That low-barrier of entry is making this happen.
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    That all sounds good, but if you think about it deeper, it is just a lot of BS wrapped into pink giftpaper.

    Big words without any context.

    Money still reigns the world and it always will.

    The appstore was hyped being the platform for indie developers bringing back the 80's. And what happens after 2 years? The big studios with money dominate the market and a few "one-hit-wonders" arise for a certain period of time.

    Did you ever hear from the second big hit of the Angry Birds developers? Or from the Doodle Jump guys?

    They are still milking their old cow.
    And even if they make it to a second big hit...with that they start to industrialize themselves, because they have to expand and they will become the next big industry studio.

    Which leads to this next chapter:

    There will be a few startups, which will make a big success, but that happened before too. If you ask me, nothing will change, because indie devs with ideas were always present and couldn't change anything until now.

    Those people coming from game schools will still try to get a job by the big studios at latest, when they realize, that without money they can't do jack.

    To be honest, that guy should be a politician, because he talked 10 minutes or so, and I can't remember already now, what he was saying. There was no sense at all behind the whole speach.
  • TouchTiltGamesTouchTiltGames Member Posts: 1,162
    Hunnenkoenig said:
    That all sounds good, but if you think about it deeper, it is just a lot of BS wrapped into pink giftpaper.

    Big words without any context.

    Money still reigns the world and it always will.

    The appstore was hyped being the platform for indie developers bringing back the 80's. And what happens after 2 years? The big studios with money dominate the market and a few "one-hit-wonders" arise for a certain period of time.

    Did you ever hear from the second big hit of the Angry Birds developers? Or from the Doodle Jump guys?

    They are still milking their old cow.
    And even if they make it to a second big hit...with that they start to industrialize themselves, because they have to expand and they will become the next big industry studio.

    Which leads to this next chapter:

    There will be a few startups, which will make a big success, but that happened before too. If you ask me, nothing will change, because indie devs with ideas were always present and couldn't change anything until now.

    Those people coming from game schools will still try to get a job by the big studios at latest, when they realize, that without money they can't do jack.

    To be honest, that guy should be a politician, because he talked 10 minutes or so, and I can't remember already now, what he was saying. There was no sense at all behind the whole speach.

    Well said!
  • OkyshoOkysho Member Posts: 158
    So in the long run, you guys don't think anything will really change.

    I made the comparison to the film industry myself. With things like acting schools or directing schools, they pump out the "next gen" every year, but there are only four or five big new names you hear every so often.

    If that's how you guys feel about the gaming industry, why are you still here?
  • FranzKellerFranzKeller Member Posts: 517
    I'd agree with most of the points made by our (south park voiced?) speaker here.

    though they are actually several turning points happening within a decade or so range

    Yeah! "French Art House Games!" More. ;-)
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