Inkscape!

It isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.

Classic regulatory capture example.

Like hiring a bunch of pro athletes and then pushing them all aside to focus on a gas guzzling robot that plays at an amateur level at best.

As a form of protest create README txt files everywhere that say things like “I wish I was using linux” and “friends don’t let friends use windows”.

True but also my point is kinda that you might as well try because without workers having meaningful leverage in their workplace, management will undoubtedly drive large corporations that impact the entire industry into brickwalls for the dumbest, most shortsighted reasons.

I don’t really disagree with this sentiment, my point is we risk losing the essential narrative of why what will occur or arguably already has occurred happened if we don’t continually reemphasize the actual issue.

Organize, unionize and have a militant solidarity with people doing the labor to make art.

“Gamer Culture” in general has a longggggg way to go in this regard.

The period during which working in game development could be considered somewhat theoretically reasonable to pursue as a career.

I think history has shown (Nintendo specifically) that game play is king, you do not need a billion dollar project with ultra realistic graphics to have fun… many people, like me, have a ton of fun and rarely play any AAA games

Nintendo is a MASSIVE game company, indie game companies could never produce their games the way Nintendo does. What a confounding example you chose from a company that is notably hostile to hobbiests and indie developers.

You are really failing to understand the basic dynamics going on in the labor market of game development here. Larger entities can do things smaller entities can’t, if you want to dispute that argument you are going to have a hard time doing so as the logic is very basic.

Large game companies can create games that would be impossible for smaller indie studios to make, large game studios can offer employment of a nature that smaller indie game companies simply can’t.

Look at Ubisoft’s large open world games or the Red Dead Redemption series, an indie game studio could never bank on creating similar games as the raw time it takes to pay developers to make that big of a detailed landscape would be infeasible for a precarious indie game company to tackle. This is just basic business sense.

I love indie games, don’t try to take the high road of claiming you have made yourself more pure by only playing indie games as if that was a solution, they are different categories.

The second part is also ridiculous (specially the family part) considering AAA Studios were the worst at exploiting their staff and lay them off the second the beta game was sold in early admissions

Don’t conflate workplace culture with the basic reality of working at a riskier, smaller company vs. a larger established company with longer and more predictable product development cycles. You wanna start a family while working at a tiny company that could go POOF if only one or two things go wrong?

To everybody who said not to be worried about this and that if this was actually a bad idea capitalism would solve it magically from indie game studios appearing out of thin air to replace the roles played by AAA game development…

Take a long walk off a short pier you naive assholes

The golden age of video games is over, yes indie games will step up to the plate to fill some of the gap, but at a structural level they simply can’t replace AAA studios. By definition AAA game studios have a capacity to create video games that smaller studios don’t and even more importantly for the career of promising game developers AAA game studios can play a crucial role in providing early career experience. AAA game studios also provide the possibility for game developers to start families since at least in the past larger companies tended to be more stable and could guarantee more stable employment.

This was not inevitable, and as fans of this medium of art we collectively failed to stop this from happening or even really to put up much resistance to it at all. We failed the artists that make the art we love.

People stress out about having too big of a backlog, who cares? Support artists, buy indie games!

Luanti is a massively exciting game development platform, given it is open source it actually delivers on the dream at the heart of Minecraft that got everyone so optimistic about the potential benefits to kids from sandbox video games that empower them to creatively express themselves, socialize (on a platform not owned by a US tech company) and learn to program organically.

Genocide profiteers

Buy it now! You will not regret it I promise. As I said in my other comment, the included albums are absolutely fantastic too!

HELL YES Brigador is so freakin good.

I once described Brigador as the side project to a darkwave/synthwave cyberpunk concept album that does perfect justice to the album in every moment, every interaction and every gameplay beat and if anything with time I have only come to agree with that conclusion more. Don’t get me wrong, this is a fully fleshed out highly replayable game, it is just the vision of this game is so inspired that the whole thing levitates, even when you are browsing menus looking up information about various tanks and hovercrafts, it still oozes style in a way that is extremely impressive.

Brigador’s soundtrack is by Makeup And Vanity Set, it is absolute fire and so is Brigador.

https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-i

https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-ii

warning - please do not listen to these albums while piloting a mech, otherwise you may wake up in a haze of explosions to realize you overthrew the world government to allow an offworld corporation to enter the domestic market and now you are racing to a rocket to get off the planet before the local militia subdues your walking battlehulk of destruction.

The last of the old cargo cult is finally converting to the new one.

Good now maybe indie developers can actually do something interesting with VR and begin the process of rehabilitating the destroyed perception it has gotten with the public.

Yeah to be clear I played GTA 1, 2, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 5, I have enjoyed the series immensely and it does have great biting satire of US politics, but it doesn’t have a coherent ideology, the critique is rather one of pointing out how hypocritical US society is… which is hilarious and great but the bigger and bigger the business success of the GTA series has become the more and more that has morphed into the series being edgey without being actually political in a subversive way.

GTA 5 had some great moments, there is some awesome storytelling in the GTA series, its just I don’t think structurally it is concerned with being political, rather it is concerned with character portraits that encapsulate the hypocrisy, struggle and ego of US culture and the more mainstream that becomes the closer and closer it gets to “edgey without being political”.

Fair, that is an important difference I just think you would be much harder pressed to prove in court GTA has meaningfully increased hateful behavior, in comparison Charlie Kirk was entirely optimized for actuating that as a media persona.

I agree any kind of targeted media that uses real names is a different level ethically, but I can’t ignore the context that in terms of real world impact here Charlie Kirk did so much harm vs. GTA which has always been a silly video game series intent on entertaining people.

Rockstar has always wanted to be edgey without “being political” and I think this is unfortunately the natural end result of that being applied to an ever bigger and bigger business model, an empty mirror of the worst of US culture without any courage even to grapple with it.

The difference between Charlie Kirk and a Charlie Kirk community mission in GTA is Charlie Kirk advocated for real violence, harassment and oppression with his platform whereas GTA is a fantasy video game.