Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look
We spent years working on this game. We're betting our family's future on it. So. Why does it look so bad? Tweets: @carnage4life , @dgbaumgart , and @moomanibe Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Someone on reddit asked @spiderwebsoft why their company's indie games look like crap. The responding blog post is an excellent look at the culture and business decisions that make indie games so special compared to AAA titles. https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @dgbaumgart : Thoughts on the Vogel post (here: https://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/ ...) - I think what he writes is true for him and the context he's experienced, but in my opinion (as a freelancer w/ art direction experience) it doesn't have to be for someone in his position. A thread! @moomanibe : really good thread here noting that Art Direction is an important and often very underrated in small indie/freelance settings a bunch of individual nice art is meaningless if that art doesn't look like a unified whole https://twitter.com/...