hey folks, new games writing from yours truly over on my Patreon. it's about the way we, collectively, talk about indie games; how they are almost always reduced to a sum of the influences we impose upon them, instead of works that are discussed on their own merit. it's about why and how we do this and why I hate it so much
EDIT: this is now publicly available!! I would love to hear your thoughts below or over on the post itself!
The biggest problem, and this is referenced in the text, is that reviewing indie games is a sucker's game. Everyone claims to love reading about indie games, but nobody actually clicks through. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: Nobody writes about indie games, so there's no audience. But on the writing side, it's also disastrous, because it takes a godawful amount of time to play games, digest your thoughts, and then say something interesting about them. It's why I don't write reviews anymore.
