Manifesto

[Briosafreak]

The machinery of gaming has run amok.

Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month's PC Data list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.

It is time for revolution.

Manifestogames beta is finally online! Let's rejoice!

 

[Ratty Sr.]

It's about damn time!

http://www.manifestogames.com/games/17 They've got Geneforge here!

 

[Milo]

It's like a freeware site where you have to pay?

 

[Briosafreak]

...

dude what's wrong with you?

 

[Ratty Sr.]

It's like a freeware site where you have to pay?

It's a game publisher, dummy.

 

[Davaris]

I have high hopes for that site and hope they make it. Its the first portal that isn't chock full of casual games.

Edit:

It's like a freeware site where you have to pay?

...

dude what's wrong with you?

This is exactly the mindset that Manifesto will combat. Hopefully they'll be able to create an Indie brand for games that is similar to the grunge Indie brand that was created for music.

With luck the players they educate will start to equate over produced AAA games, with the music made by the marketing machines that back acts like Britney $pears.

 

[SnaX]

It's about damn time!

http://www.manifestogames.com/games/17 They've got Geneforge here!

I remember I did a temporary trade of my Fallout 2 for my friends Geneforge... the next day I told him to give me my damn game back.

Maybe I'll give it another try

 

[Davaris]

Geneforge doesn't campare to Fallout, but Spiderweb is the only Indie RPG developer I know of that makes a living from his games, so there must be something to it. Also check out his website, his latest game has done very well so you might like that more.

The other RPG dev that is doing extremely well is the maker of Aveyond (her game is a casual RPG targeted at young girls). I don't think you'll like it, but it might be worth taking a look at if you want to see what a casual RPG looks like. I get the impression this is what the AAA devs are moving towards in terms of making their control systems and games as simple as possible.

EDIT:
Also don't forget the unusual games that don't fit into the standard AAA categories. Some of them have gameplay that you won't find anywhere else.