He's been talking about it on Mastodon for quite a while now. It's a shame.
/edit: It wasn't the game he talked about on Masto; that game finished/released! My dumb. I thought it was continued development.
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I like Ron Gilbert.
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I wonder if he tried to get in touch with smaller indie publishers (something like yacht club games) or he focused on more established companies.
"They have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make, and in the end you end up giving a whole lot of games that look exactly the same as last year's games, because that makes some money," Gilbert explained.
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He continued: “That's why I really enjoy the indie game market because it’s kind of free of a lot of that stuff that big publishers bring to it, and there’s a lot more creativity, strangeness, and bizarreness."
There's still a lot of creativity in big games but it'd be shame to see more movement towards nostalgia-driven/pastiche type games.
Using a screenshot of Stardew while quoting a developer saying it takes money and staff to finish a project is diabolical
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"It's either a passion project you spent ten years on, or you just need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources."
Canceled, or stopped developing?
Gilbert's untitled RPG was announced in 2024, and had been in development for several months. It was slated for release later that year or in early 2025.
It looks like the game was published back in October.
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@Jeffool Ron Gilbert can't do what thousands of independent devs do every day. Fuck him.
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