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in reply to @Charocyte's post:
@Hempuli we need answers (Idk if tagging actually notifies people lol)
A good friend of mine here in Toronto is on the remote development core team for Baba Is You, and he gave me a gift copy of the second update release in Steam to have a go.
It's odd, but fun. It's not for the faint hearted because it's awful or nasty visually or contextually, but that it makes you think, really deep down into the brainbone. But whether you think it's horrible and disturbing or a revelatory, philosophical Bardo experience- and you can feel either by that means, in extremis- depends on the unique biases you bear, merit and through which the gameplay and messages therein are filtered.
I mean, some people think Half-Life wasn't about heroes and the Combine weren't fascist Space Nazis from the Warp with stormtrooper armour and implanted strep throat, but maybe that's not right either. Opinions, like quantum doppler tack, will vary chaotically.
And chaos, as we know, is fair.
-2Paw.
in reply to @amydentata's post:
I wan to joke and say long and dark winters, but, honestly, that's just for Fear & Hunger.
But I feel Finland has for longest time had relatively large PC-indie-game scene. Sadly it's not one I've been part of, so I have little functional knowledge. But in the late 90s early 2000s most of my PC gaming was through freeware and shareware games and good chunk of the most iconic ones I can recall were Finnish made.
And if there are lots of Finns making games, some of them end up being really good.
The demoscene was (is?) big there too, IIRC, and that feels like it must play a part
This website makes the same joke about long, dark winters, but also mentions their history of public funding.
That article also focuses on the industry and bigger companies. Less on the smaller independent creators. Sure there are probably funding opportunities for indies too, but I'm pretty sure money didn't build the PC culture. Not directly at least.
There is public support for indies both directly via grants, and indirectly through programs and events.
[edit] Compare to a place like, say, the US, that forces everyone to fend for themselves, starting at grade school, and what you see here are little, localized cultural blooms in the indie space that eventually die off as everyone is either displaced or sucked up into the corporate machine, except for a small number of lucky winners. Creating conditions for culture to thrive is a huge part of what public sector funding is meant to do, and some places just don't do that.
One of the biggest things that causes this in Finland is actually mandatory military service.
If you dig around in the history of a lot of Finnish small businesses, you'll find a pretty common story; 'well, we met in the army, and we became friends, and after our conscription terms were up, we all had money in our pockets and nothing planned, so we decided to start a business together.'
Add to that you already know how to work cooperatively together, and lots of these businesses succeed.
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