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Independent Video Games from Handcrafts to Blockbusters (Indie Games)

Independent Video Games from Handcrafts to Blockbusters (Indie Games)
Date: August 3rd, 2022
ISBN: 9781684971114
Language: English
Number of pages: 250 pages
Format: PDF
PIXEL ART - VR/AR - PARTY GAMES - ROGUELIKE

From handcrafting to VR, independent video games are on all fronts, top the sales charts of Steam®, make sensation in the biggest game shows and awards, and are acclaimed by the most prestigious publishers. Their aesthetics, their gameplay and their original writing shake up the codes.

Indie Games: independent video games, from handcrafts to blockbusters analyses the major developments in independent games since 2018. Superbly illustrated and documented, for enthusiasts and curious amateurs alike, this book gives voice to those who drive this cultural industry.

How did these games managed to conquer gamers and media? In a world of hyper-choice, what are their strategies to make themselves known? How do they manage to port to multiple platforms with such small teams? How do they finance themselves?

In this exceptional book, thanks to numerous exclusive interviews, more than 300 illustrations, concept arts and unpublished sketches, the reader will get a glimpse behind the scenes and get answers from the key people behind the success of independent video games.

Discover more than 300 independent video games, with some of them mentioned for the first time in a book: A Plague Tale: Innocence, A short Hike, Children of Morta, Carto, Creaks, Eastward, Factorio, Frostpunk, Genesis Noir, Haven, LUNA-The Shadow Dust, Old Man's Journey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Season, Slay the Spire, Spelunky 2, Untitled Goose Game, When the Past Was Around...

Doctor of modern literature, Bounthavy Suvilay regularly invites pop culture in the halls of university. She was a long-time editor of IG magazine and, in 2018, she published at Bragelonne a first book dedicated to independent video games, Indie Games: history, artwork, sound design of independent video games.

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