Diffrulences between indie, AA, and AAA

indie target audience should read "a second, equally beautiful transgender"
otherwise this is good
- I'm an indie dev who's not trans, and my target audience is "whoever likes my games, IDK".

"office supplies company trying to diversify portfolio" describes some real gems of video games
i would tentatively place Super Beat Sports in there, its on Switch now but it was written as a rhythm game for Apple TV
- Kingdoms of Amalur was funded as a state tax write off and almost bankrupted Rhode Island, hands down one of the greatest games there has ever been.
  
  As someone that played it that's very generous.
- Let us not forget that the original Kerbal Space Program was made by a team in a marketing company.

There are two types of indie games, cozy games for transbians and ultrakill
- stardew for transbians and ultrakill for femboys
  they even sell official ultrakill booty shorts
  https://newbloodstore.com/collections/ultrakill/products/ultrakill-booty-shorts
  croptops too
  https://newbloodstore.com/collections/ultrakill/products/ultrakill-ultracrop
  
  Idk as a Transfem, very tempting :3
- Which one is Dwarf Fortress?
  
  Yes
  
  Cozy game obviously.

I'm drunk, but "Team Size: 7 Europeans" for AA is killing me.
- I'm sober and it holds up

The real magic starts when you assemble 7 beautiful european transgenders but the world is not ready for this probably
- African... Eurasian... American... Oceanian...
  Long ago, the four transgenders lived together in harmony.
  
  1984 is just Avatar, but the fire nation genocided one and all turned into fire nations.
- Bonus points if they name it "Woke Mind Virus" and it turns the Windows computers gay
  
  "turns the Windows computers gay" also known as installing Linux
- All other games would pale in comparison to this hypothetical game
- laika: aged through blood

The second ugliest assets you've ever seen inside the unreal engine with motion blur
Don't forget DLSS ghosting artifacts!

ConcernedApe 🥰

Indie technology: Either Godot, some other smaller open source engine, or some heavily specialized open source solution that can only do a few kinds of games but has a small footprint.
- Or they write it without an engine.
- Space Station 14 my dearly beloved,
  And also mindustry
- Or sometimes just fully built from the ground up. It’s getting less common, but a few notable examples I know of are Minecraft, FTL (and I think Into the Breach), and Rollercoaster Tycoon is a whole story worth looking up.
  
  Stardew valley as well iirc.
  
  I can also chip in with HROT, the engine for which was coded from the ground up in Pascal.

Metroid and Zelda baby games? We gonna need to have a word with your friend...
- If their friend can beat original Metroid without a walk through, I will consider their opinion. It's still wrong but I will consider it.
  
  Metroid got me with the Bomb in the crystal hall, I admit I did not thought of that and got stuck.

seven europeans my beloved, thank you for factorio
- The dev is a massive bigot :(
  
  I feel less guilty about pirating it now.
  
  Proof?

Future Prospects:
Bankrupt or bought out by AAA within a year
Makes 2 more great releases, then see previous
Makes 5 formulaic releases with a team size that halves each iteration, or engages actively in 1-year contracts or hire-and-dump schemes
- Sometimes indies do very well, after which they don’t release anything new for at least 5 years.
  
  Like the Balatro guy, out there living the dream. Made one great game and got filthy rich and I couldn't be happier for him.
  
  Then theres terraria, almost 14 years and still getting updates
  
  That's a good thing - helps keep the quality level up, and leaves room for other indies.
  
  Did you mean: Toby Fox?
- Also could be (applies to indie and AA):
  Updates games constantly to the present day due to low operating costs/no shareholders
  Open source in 5-10 years
  Old games live off modding support, new games are all dead within a year, then repeat cycle
  Steam Sale food for curious gamers, nothing else
  
  The bottom 2 apply to AAA games

Okay I gotta ask since I've seen it a bunch recently but when did transgender as a noun become accepted. It's an adjective. I've seen trans people be called a Trans multiple times recently and it never got challenged but it always feels icky to me. I'm a transgender woman or a trans woman for short. If you want to shorten it further you may call me a woman but not a trans
- I think the usage there isn't meant to be correct, but incorrect as a joke. It's like how I've seen people call themselves a tran. (Trans is obviously plural.)
  
  I hadn't read that yet and laughed at that joke for a solid minute.
  
  they do be enallage sometimes!
- I try to avoid using nouns in general for folks (because it's hard to tell through online/voice calls and I end up forgetting due to bad brain), so I end up just using they/them, you, or something more abstract (gamers, pals, friendos) to refer to people.
  While I haven't engaged in using trans as a noun, I'd imagine others would for simplicity's sake, at least in their mind.
- If the fucker thinks that Metroid and Zelda are "baby games" you already can tell he's not the smartest of the bunch. On the other side I never did called someone just "trans" but is good to know that it does matter.
- What about trans men and trans non-binary people?
  
  men and enbies ! or whatever they prefer
  Yoiu can say trans alone in some contexts such as "I know someone who is trans"
  
  Same as with trans women the trans is still an adjective, i don't know why that would change. If you want to talk about multiple categories of trans people, you can just use trans people or something similar. If you're talking about my example at the end there it's because i literally am a trans woman and was talking about myself.

Payed to play a game? Sounds like they shanghaied them?
Past tense of pay is paid. Payed is a ship.

Since you include AA you should've included AAAA games too
- CR2032 games would be nice too

I've been enjoying the shit out of Headliners, which feels like a game that kinda emerged from a pile of unreal assets they found at the bottom of a box of VHS tapes at a flea market.

Surprisingly accurate.
- Very much so.
- I don't have a stream 😭

Manor Lords doesn't fit.