How do we save indie gaming?

why wouldn't they make the sequel like the original, if the original was so popular?

Your first mistake is assuming common sense and awareness from developers. Also consider this: the masses, on average, have shit taste. This does not mean they won't play good games, it means they'll play good games and then want certain things changed, in a bad way. And because they're the majority and they are loud, the devs will change it.

y-yeah why would they do that...

*cries in mh fan*

Fpbp

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This is it
also indie games are doing great

Go back to being a child/teenager, then you will find any game fun, I bet you're 21+ so maybe it's time to find another hobby if you're struggling to find fun in video games.

>Discussing Spelunky HD (not 2)
>Random user chimes in and posts about how Spelunky HD is bad and SteamWorld DIg
>He starts nitpicking the fuck out of Spelunky and how much superior one is to another and starts arguments left and right with other anons

>Later that day torrent the game
>Start it up
>It's almost nothing like Spelunky besides the "cave-exploring" theme
I have never seen anyone like this game on Zig Forums before.
He was either a diehard SteamWorld Dig fan or just picked a game that looked similiar and tried to be an ultra contrarian.
Nevertheless, his transparency opened my eyes to what lengths people will go to show others how special they are for liking a video game.

>and SteamWorld Dig is a much better game in comparison*

Several people on Zig Forums will find any superficial similarities between games and intentionally try to cause a "war" between them. Most of them are third party trolls with no affiliation to either game and just the desire to cause trouble (usually fueled by the childish thought process of "I saw too many threads about this game I don't care about so I'm gonna shitpost in their thread for daring to exist in my field of vision"). But some of them are mentally ill fans of the less-known game that somehow convinced themselves that "their game" not being popular is the fault of the other game.

Either what the other user said, or it's the dev trying to shill his game.

>Go back to being a child/teenager
found the time traveler

bump

Horror indie game about vibrating radical Larry black cat.

?????

based

discourage indie devs from doing these shitty throwback passion projects that never end up being a fifth as good as the classic games they're inspired by

everything that comes out of new blood is the fucking death of creativity

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NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T MAKE GAMES YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT

gatekeeping is the biggest meme i've ever seen
Can you point even 1 (one) example of it working at all?

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There's nothing wrong with the level of creativity or passion; the REAL PROBLEM is that talented people get discouraged from developing their talents to their fullest extent, because their *decent* debut efforts are buried in pure garbage and CAN'T get noticed.

Steam. It's fucking Steam, once the champion of the indie movement. Rather than give us more great Valve games, they'd rather sit back and make a few extra bucks by allowing heaps of shovelware hentai shit and asset-flipped garbage that doesn't even half work to muck up their store. THEY are the reason that so many passionate, hardworking indie developers can't even get noticed now. They helped foster the movement, and now their casual greed is killing it.

t. Not an indie developer or an SJW faggot either, so don't try that angle

well said

what should they make instead?