Jonathan Blow June 29, 2012This was in response to a business-centric postmortem about a game that sold 7 copies titled 'Congratulations, Your First Indie Game is a Flop.' I should learn not to care: /view/feature/1вЂ¦ This Gamasutra article just kind of makes me angry. Recently a tweet from Jon Blow (developer of Braid) made me think on this issue again:

Now вЂ“ keep in mind that I said excellent (as opposed to decent, good, or even great) and that when I use that word, I mean: fun, appealing, polished, and accessible (and don't take accessible to mean casual or broadly appealing.) Namely: I think many have forgotten that the most important factor to success as a game developer is making an excellent game, and started to believe that financial success is either random, or mostly due to factors outside of the game itself. Forest and I have high hopes for Flippfly, but aside from our moderately successful Monkey Drum Deluxe, there's really not a lot of inherent credibility to my words that comes with having highly successful products to back them up.Д«ut there's a trend of beliefs and focus among some indies that's really kind of discouraging to me. I questioned the wisdom of writing this, since as of yet, I've not released a highly successful game as an independent developer since quitting my day job back in April.

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