The State of Indie Gaming

Juan Gril has an interesting look up at the current state of indie games, both on the PC and on this current crop of consoles — what’s currently cooking, and potential and pitfalls for the future. And where is the hotbed of radical innovation?:

Some people may disagree with this statement, but frankly if there is one platform where most of the radical innovation in video game design is happening, that platform is the World Wide Web. For every innovative Wii game in the market, there are dozens of innovative Flash games.

It’s not only because the barriers of entry and the production costs are lower, it’s also a platform open for experimentation. You can throw something out there, discover that you wanted to change something, change it on your server, and boom, it’s available for everybody else.

There are some other interesting bits of information contained within the article (’Don’t spend more than $US 200K developing a game for XBLA!’), and some stats and predictions as well.

The State of Indie Gaming [Gamasutra]