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Thank you so much. I love watching seafood wrestle as much as the next guy but more English-language writers need to realize that comicket is not really a games exhibition, and I presume this is how they come to the conclusion the Japanese indie scene is what they claim it is
Yeah like it's just honestly aggravating that this exact article comes out every year, right on the dot, just as BitSummit winds down lmao. Like can we please finally get something different? Maybe some coverage of those indie games instead of only talking to ex-Sony devs??
You make a valid point. But...
'Imagine if the metric for successfully being part of ""the indie game scene"" was to show off your game at something like PAX, because that's the sort of consumer-focused place BitSummit is.'
People do speak about western indie games the same way though. 75% of the time if I see someone talk about a new indie game they saw, it'll be something from a big booth at a show published by a (literal) billion dollar "big indie" publisher.
my impression is that western gaming press doesn't really talk about western indie games much either, unless they have (paradoxically) already attracted a lot of press. which puts this in an even weirder light.
maybe "growing up" means "making games that i hear about without having to look for them", then. odd take for a journalist but
It's also very weird (read: incredibly normal) for this writer to be like "Japanese games aren't globally recognized the way Neon White and Citizen Sleeper were" and it's like neither of those games got even close to the same amount of Japanese press as Needy Girl Overload?? But "global" means English-speaking, obv, so that doesn't count. (I don't think Citizen Sleeper is even available outside of English??)