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The Indie Renaissance: How Small Teams Are Reinventing Player Interaction
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The Indie Renaissance: How Small Teams Are Reinventing Player InteractionMacy ToppanGame Design AdvocateJanuary 30, 2025I grew up on games. Fritz and Chesster for CD-ROM taught me the rules of chess; I spent high school binging horror game playthroughs and fiending for snake.io; and even now, decades after I first laid hands on my beloved NintendoDS, I remain fiercely loyal to the superiority of my starter Pokemon (It’s Piplup, it HAS to be Piplup - no further questions).That love for interactive immersion has stuck with me, and it’s why I now build games professionally. For years, I’ve worked on projects from my own little XR passion pieces to larger collaborations, and I’ve studied how games of all shapes and sizes come together. Lately, I've noticed that the games I've felt the most connected to have all been from indie studios or solo developers. While I still have a ton of fun playing the latest Sony exclusive, the handcrafted experiences from small teams are the ones that stick w...
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