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The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago

Triple I as in triple Indie? That's cute as hell, I love it. I'm all for III over AAA.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it took me a moment to get it, but then I was like "oh, neat! That's very clever"

[-] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago

Successful indies helping out the indie industry is the only way it'll grow, a big award show that gets people's eyes is the kind of marketing most developers could only dream of. But they a really going to have to treat each nomination as a commercial, people need to be sold on these games

Assuming they don't just pick the devs that were already thinking of. If it's just that then it's probably pointless

[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

The only way it will grow? Man, the indie scene was pretty much non existent 20 years ago and now it rivals major studios in number of concurrent players

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, and it's pretty much hit a wall. Both because of massive oversaturation causing people to not be able to find new interesting things amongst the 100 new titles released daily, ans because indy studios can't find any funding at all anymore.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I nominate Daniel Mullins for III god award!

[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

Hopefully this showcase is successful enough to become a tradition. It would be nice to have an indie-focused showcase that doesn't have to juggle their time between the games, advertisements, and sponsors.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

At this point, it would be cool to have a gaming event at all that doesn't invite random Hollywood celebrities instead of actual game developers

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"OMG, those nerds have had 20 full seconds to talk? WRAP IT UP"

(for those who don't know Game Awards really did this. The few acceptance speeches that were there were very short, and winners were all told to "WRAP IT UP" via teleprompter and cut with music. 11 minutes of them talking in total, for a 3-hour-long show)

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

I don't know what's going on with this headline; it's not an awards show, just a showcase. Although I understand how events like The Game Awards blur the line between the two.

Makes me feel like Game News Season (or whatever we're calling it post-E3) is coming up quick.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Fuck yeah, cut the corpos out of the hobby space.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Looking forward to it!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

As a budding game developer, watching mobile games dominate all the game awards is so incredibly frustrating.

My first game award, I watched those Farmville motherfuckers take award after award, while amazing indie games are given lip service but not the trophy.