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  1. Comment on How do you keep up with smaller indie game news? in ~games

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    Wow, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. A small, curated, well updated feed of interesting games! Thanks!

    Wow, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. A small, curated, well updated feed of interesting games! Thanks!

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  2. Comment on How do you keep up with smaller indie game news? in ~games

    Recognition101
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    Nice! I never would have found something like this since I don't browse YouTube itself (too many social-media type problems with automatically recommended content). Thanks! I'll check it out.

    Nice! I never would have found something like this since I don't browse YouTube itself (too many social-media type problems with automatically recommended content).

    Thanks! I'll check it out.

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  3. Comment on How do you keep up with smaller indie game news? in ~games

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    I agree about hype culture - and I fully admit I'm looking for a "junk-food" fix here. I definitely acknowledge it and treat it as such though, so I think it's fine in controlled moderation....

    I agree about hype culture - and I fully admit I'm looking for a "junk-food" fix here. I definitely acknowledge it and treat it as such though, so I think it's fine in controlled moderation. Sometimes I just want to spend 30 minutes keeping my eye out for innovative game mechanics, and watching a small hand-curated list of trailers did that for me. If I weren't doing that, I'd probably be doing something similarly unproductive with the time anyway (and at least my search for innovative mechanics can inspire me in my own creations).

    I think your observation about media that speaks to us is insightful - it's an amazing feeling to find something that feels handcrafted to you (a few albums from artists who seem to have shared my exact childhood pop into mind), but it can create an odd sort of loneliness when you realize that the hyper-specificity limits you from sharing it (except, like you said, with others who are 100% into it, and that's not really interesting either). Maybe the joy of sharing media is the off-chance that you rope someone in who was already on its periphery?

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  4. Comment on How do you keep up with smaller indie game news? in ~games

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    Yeah, I've tried various methods Steam provides and a lot of them are pretty hit or miss. That hidden gems link is a cool concept though, thanks for that! I fell off Twitter (and reddit, sounds...

    Yeah, I've tried various methods Steam provides and a lot of them are pretty hit or miss. That hidden gems link is a cool concept though, thanks for that! I fell off Twitter (and reddit, sounds similar to you), but even if I still used it I was looking for something with just a tiny bit more curation than the firehose they provide. Steam and Itch both also have that firehose-like "infinite recommendation lists" and while those sometimes result in cool stuff, the signal to noise ratio is not quite there.

    I did follow those sites (RPS, Gamasutra) and their disappearance (or changes of focus) is what spurred this post. I guess I was just hoping something else stepped in - but I think there's just not enough money in it (understandably). Grass roots seems to be the way to go now, but I just don't have the time to keep my finger on that many pulses.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on How do you keep up with smaller indie game news? in ~games

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    Cool, this is definitely the kind of thing I'm looking for. Navigating itch is intimidating, and having a human driven (as opposed to algorithmic) way to highlight things there is a great idea!

    Cool, this is definitely the kind of thing I'm looking for. Navigating itch is intimidating, and having a human driven (as opposed to algorithmic) way to highlight things there is a great idea!

    3 votes

  6. How do you keep up with smaller indie game news?

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    How do people here keep up with upcoming niche games? Most of the blogs I've followed for this have been abandoned over time and I'm looking for new one(s). Ideally, I'm looking for something...

    How do people here keep up with upcoming niche games? Most of the blogs I've followed for this have been abandoned over time and I'm looking for new one(s). Ideally, I'm looking for something that:

    • Supports RSS
    • Highlights trailers or other creator-made pages showing off lesser-known games
    • Focuses on the "hobby itch.io experiment" to "Annapurna / Devolver-published" segment of the Lo-Fi to AAA spectrum (nothing more AAA than that)
    • Posts occasional reviews/interviews with games/creators (optionally)
    • Has no/little focus on industry-insider news

    I'm obviously biased towards "small-web" blogs or forums, but I'd love to hear about however you stay up to date with cool things creators are making!

    30 votes

  7. Comment on What are some good, non-microtransaction riddled mobile games? in ~games

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    Keeping track of (and purchasing way too many) decent, buy-once1 iOS games is somewhat of a hobby of mine. You can check out my list here: iOS Games Worth Playing I sort the games mostly by...

    Keeping track of (and purchasing way too many) decent, buy-once1 iOS games is somewhat of a hobby of mine. You can check out my list here:

    iOS Games Worth Playing

    I sort the games mostly by support for: controllers, cloud saves, and devices (Phone/iPad/TV).

    As far as recommendations, it really depends what you're looking for! If you're looking for a console-like experience with a gamepad, a few of my favorites are:

    1. The Witness
    2. Hyper Light Drifter
    3. Dead Cells
    4. Fez
    5. The Binding of Isaac

    If you're looking for a mobile-first experience that uses multi-touch in a creative or unique way:

    1. Mushroom 11
    2. Severed
    3. HoPiKo
    4. GNOG
    5. Hundreds

    Feel free to ask for specific genres or kinds of games and I'll give a recommendation if I have one!

    1: By "buy-once" I mean any game that doesn't include any in-app purchases (IAP) that can be purchased more than once (buy-once IAP for things like "unlock full game" or expansion packs are fine).
    5 votes