the chinese indie game scene fascinates and excites me and i really, really wish i could find good sources for like. information on it
like just on a very basic level
what's the ACTUAL status of steam in china?
because, there's a LOT of games being put out all the time that only exist in simplified chinese on steam. yet, steam is blocked in china without a vpn. Which means that either
- everyone is using a vpn to access steam (wouldn't surprise me from what i know)
- these games are ports of games sold on other sites and the steam versions are just one version that you can buy when you'd normally buy them somewhere else, on sites i don't know about
- steam isn't blocked in the way i understand it
i genuinely don't know! but china IS the biggest fucking gaming market in the world, way outpacing america and other stuff, and there's a TON of cool indie games coming out... i wanna know about em!
i just wanna learn, and it's so, so so fuckin hard to find sources on china that aren't just like. western media shitheads going SHAME ABOUT THAT GOVERNMENT THAT'S SO OPPRESIVE UNLIKE AMERICA LOL SHAME SHAME
dude i wanna hear about the studio that made volcano princess! that game is 10 bucks and has more fucking steam reviews then dwarf fortress and is an obviously indie project! who made it? what did they do? what's going on there? i wanna learn! but no instead i gotta read 10 articles that spend 2 hours talking about the great firewall and 0 time talking about indie games
fuck offfffff
