Nostalgia In The Indie Scene
The indie scene has received a lot of my attention lately. Despite the advent of the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Wii U, I've been more inclined to research projects of lesser known developers. I used to scan Kickstarter for new projects and checked the Humble Indie Bundles to see if there were any gems from the last few months that I had forgotten. But lately, I've found that I lack the drive to follow them anymore. My complaint is that the indie scene has gotten quite crowded. It seems that so many developer try very hard to push nostalgia as the main selling point instead of trying to offer something innovative and new. The indie scene has created a sense of déjà vu ; every game I play seems to borrow from another game recently released in the past. Since the developers are small teams and also very young, they try to emulate the thing about what made games great to them when they were a kid. Rather than having other 12-year olds flock to their games, they target ...