{"id":25646,"date":"2011-02-17T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/its-funny-but-the-brilliant-indie-developers\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:55:59","slug":"its-funny-but-the-brilliant-indie-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/its-funny-but-the-brilliant-indie-developers\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&rsquo;s funny, but the brilliant indie developers like Tarn Adams, Vic Davis, and Chris Park (and Notch, obviously) are incredibly well-positioned here. Their games don&rsquo;t cost much to make, they don&rsquo;t have to sell three million copies, and the cost control allows them to take chances. These guys can afford to fail, and they&rsquo;ll still survive (yes, Arcen almost tanked after Tidalis, but they didn&rsquo;t). [an aside: yes, Vic might have to adjust his pricing structure, but he&rsquo;s much smarter than almost all of us, and I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll find a way that works.] Maybe it&rsquo;s not even just the brilliant developers. Anyone who can make a reasonably entertaining, non-buggy game for $10 or less has entered their golden era. Is that a good thing for us? Hell, yes. What&rsquo;s going to be more interesting, a bunch of retread AAA franchises in their fifth (of fiftieth) iteration or thousands of games under $10 to choose from? This new model almost entirely democratizes game development and production, and that is a very, very good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/new-day.html\">Dubious Quality: The New Day<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s funny, but the brilliant indie developers like Tarn Adams, Vic Davis, and Chris Park (and Notch, obviously) are incredibly well-positioned here. Their games don&rsquo;t cost much to make, they don&rsquo;t have to sell three million copies, and the cost control allows them to take chances. These guys can afford to fail, and they&rsquo;ll still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}