Cover by Satoshi Kurosaki
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The latest edition of Indiepocalypse (the monthly alternative game anthology I run) is now out! If you don't know what Indiepocalypse is I wrote a starter guide!
The games in this month issue (as seen in the trailer) are
- Biblically Accurate Sheeps? by Quentin Delvallet
- Bossfight? she loved you. by Lily Detrick
- Collage Advertisement by OXY
- Internal Monologue by @keroblin-co
- De_Offectibus by Yazorius
- WAS/WERE by Rodrick 'RodFireProductions'
- Romino's Adventure by InterDan
- Neotrogla by Roxy S.
- The Perfect Portrait by @knickknackpj
And newly commissioned for Indiepocalypse!
I'm Hungry! I'm Healthy! I'm Human! by @lintilion
A tale of survival in the strange wilderness, with danger around every corner! You'll know what to do when you get there. Just laugh and eat and kill, and enjoy the journey. You can win one day if you want. Until then, there's still a life out there.
With these last few event rejections I think I've finally uncovered and conquered my last bit of lingering frustrating around the zine. I looked at the people accepted into these events, and frankly, my work just doesn't stack up! I can like all I want but that doesn't make it not something with a $500~700 monthly budget (with equivalent sales) and a reach of generously 1500~2000 people. I'm hardly a "founder", I don't have a real budget, I haven't even been doing this 4 years, and I don't wield any meaningful influence. But there are plenty who that does describe, so of course given the limitations of every event there is a sea of people in front of me.
I was at my most irritating when I held the belief that my work was, as they say, important and that I was entitled to unearned recognition for what is at its core curatorial work, something an untold number of critics, festivals, and well, curators have been doing long before me and to wider success. This is not to belittle my own work, but instead a long overdue acknowledgement that a monthly collection of games is not an industry shaking revelation but just another video game thing.
But, weird as it may sound this has actually given me a greater confidence in Indiepocalypse than ever before. Before I was stuck in this weird space where I overconfident and couldn't believe my work wasn't being recognized while also constantly undercutting when other people said it was something great (especially directly to other people) because I felt without the accolades those claims couldn't possibly be true.
Now I feel almost brazenly confident about the zine, not needing unanimous and widespread approval to justify its existence. Indiepocalypse rules, you know?
