Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
  • kinsnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    While Hades, Hollow Knight, and Celeste being both owned and published by the same company are not indie.

    if your definiton of inide exclude Hades, Hollow Knight and Celeste because they are independent i have to say that it is a very bad definiton of what an indie game is.

    personally, if a game has enough budget to hire Charlie Cox or Andy Serkins, it probably should not be in an indie award ceremony

    • Rooster326@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Yes okay but how do you define it?

      Because that is all that “Indiependent” means.

      Remember Hades and Hades 2 had a bigger budget than E33

      1. Hades production cost was over $15 Million
      2. Hades 2 production cost was over $20 Million
      3. E33 was less than $10 Million.

      Hollow Knight was developed by 2 people with a $58,000 budget. How more independent do you want to get?