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"Wait A Minute, We Need To Start Doing This": Games Like Baldur's Gate 3 Are The Future, Says Doom Co-Creator

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There's a lot♍ of scepticism about the future of the games industry right now, which is hardly surprising given the sheer number of layoffs, studio closures, game cancellatioꦫns, and failed live-service offerings.

Developers have raised concerns about the𒉰 impacts that models lik꧟e Game Pass are having, while others doubt the sustainability of big-budget, lengthy dev cycles, w💟ith hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at projects, turning every game into a make-or-break for studios.

Doom co-creator John Romero has been at the forefront of these hurdles, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox pulled funding from his new game amid huge cuts 🦩earlier this month. But, unlike many, he's optimistic about where the medium🐽 is headed.

Indies Are The Future Of The Games Industry, Says John Romero

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As reported by , speaking on , Romero said that the industry is "so much bigger than it used to be," highlighting the burst of indie games that have sprawled onto the scene in the last decade. "Just go to Itch.io if you want to see how many indies there are out there. How man𒁃y games are released on Steam every month? Most of them are indie games. iOS, Android - indie, indie, indie."

Romero fielded this question before Microsoft pulled funding from his studio.🧸

Many of these independent projects have become critical darlings and breakout hits, rivalling triple-A releases in recent years. "When we look at the Game of the Year awards, half the time it's indies," Romero said, listing off games like Balatro, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Helldivers 2 (published by Sony), and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Minecraft, w⭕hich became a gaming staple long before Microsoft bought Mojang.

"These are all indies," Romero continued. "These people are the ones that make the triple-A companies go, 'Wait a mi🧸nute. We need to start doing this.'"

Romero explained that distributing used to require jumping through more hoops, namely getting your game onto a disc and into stores, which "You're never going to do" as an indie developer. But with the advent of digital platforms, it's easier than ever to get your game into people's hands. So, for Romero, that's the future of the industry — the indie boom; risk-ta🐽kers unshackled by the pressures of triple-A development, able t💙o make bold swings.

But as PC Gamer explains, not every indie developer can be ConcernedApe. With a much lower barrier to entry, there are tens of thousands of games released on Steam alone every year, making it much harder to stand out among the crowd. And without your game going viral, funding future projects is much harder, so indie developers often work in their spare time outside of day jobs. Games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Schedule 1 and Peak are the rare exceptions to the rule, nܫot the no🎐rm.

Aggro Crab struggled to find a partn🏅er after the release of Another Crab's Treasure, and Peak was the result of a desperate rush to make a🔜 commercially viable game in as little time as possible, with .

So, maybe indie developers are the future of the industry, but like triple-A, this side of the medium is fraught with problems. They might not see their studio shuttered if their game fails, but if their game fails, they might not have enough money to g𝐆et🙈 by, never mind fund a new project.