Nickname: cj tudor

Review: Good luck to Greg! Getting the Big Publishers to sign an Indie game is a tough nut to crack. "Mr. Bigshot" was a 2004 Top 10 Indie Game of the Year and was even mentioned in BusinessWeek. But it hasn't garnered a deal yet, possibly because it doesn't fit the shooter/movie tie-in profile.

Date reviewed: Oct 31, 2005 6:20 PM

Nickname: Dejanigma

Review: People only think about the next best thing, given our operant conditioning by a profiteering media network. Whip out super mario 3 and tell me that you need 16 data pipes and 22k polygons on the screen to have a fun game. End of story.

Date reviewed: Oct 26, 2005 6:42 PM

Nickname: Cam Calka

Review: As a gamer and Computer Science Student, there is a problem beyond distrubution and that is information. Untill many of the popular gaming news sites start picking up on indie games and writing about them, few gamers will even know they exist. Look at Gamespy and their dozen articles about Age of Empires 3, few indie games are ever mentioned there though. Some sites are slowly adding "indie" areas, where they give brief summaries of indie games that are very popular. Articles like this, help the cause though. It gets indie games and the companies distributing them exposure, hopefully showing more gamers that there is more out there than the cut of the mold games we've been playing thus far.

Date reviewed: Oct 26, 2005 3:24 PM

Nickname: Scott Jon Siegel

Review: As a twentysomething game consumer, I am in full support of Manifesto, and I strongly believe that Costikyan's approach will yield positive results in the longterm. The industry is becoming stagnant in terms of creativity, and the only way to jump-start innovation in the field is to support the independent publishers who are publishing the atypical "non-genre" games that are considered risky ventures by publishers like EA and Sony. It's not just about getting these titles into the hands of consumers, however. It's about reminding the big-name publishers that there is a market for unique game-types that don't fit the mold.

Date reviewed: Oct 25, 2005 7:34 PM

Nickname: Brad Wardell

Review: I have a couple of corrections. First, TotalGaming.net supports individual purchasing. It's not a subscription service like GameTap. Secondly, while TotalGaming.net only has a few dozen games on it, that has to do with having a very high standard for what we accept. We reject four out of five submissions based on quality. Brad Wardell, President of Stardock Entertainment.

Date reviewed: Oct 25, 2005 2:15 PM

Nickname: budro

Review: Gamers are killing the gaming industry. Why are we doing this?

Date reviewed: Oct 25, 2005 11:15 AM