Every Indie Game 

*2 minute “sitting down with a cup of drink” or 1 minute “no physical avatar” intro plays out. Video essayist sighs* Hey guys, what’s up? *insert one or two random events in the video essayist life* And I’ve also been playing video games as usual and, oh hey look at that game that everyone has been talking about! No, but seriously, this is amazing. I’m now here to just talk about why this game is so awesome *in a smaller, whispered voice* (and it’s pretty cheap) *back to normal* . This is [insert game name] and how it’s *impacted, changed, broken, it could be any of those* me. *and cut to the rest of the video…*

​@Sireington But first let me talk about my Patreon and new merch store but in like an ironic disaffected way so you know that l know that capitalism is bad but actually please please I need the money so bad

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and the title will always be one of these: "how X BREAKS you" "why X is the BEST Y" "X: an underrated masterpiece"

@@ketaminepoptarts It's always an underrated masterpiece despite being the only game anyone talks about for months and being on several Best of the Year lists.

HAHAHAHA!

Don't let Denuvo hear this

It really helped me to feel the frustration, then anger, then sadness and finally acceptance that the protagonist experienced. It truly is revolutionary

Roguelike where have to start over ever time? No! You have to reinstall everything every time!

That's what makes it the best game I've ever played.

does this make game dev not real indie

since you are a indie dev, tell everyone to stop make pretentious metaphors, they are not clever and they are not surprising.

I mean literally What Remains of Edith Finch. I mean almost exactly.

@@mattmark94 let people do things. Please.

@Sireington No.

That's more of a every first person game ever.

Yeah I noticed that, there are far too many indie games that do this

Even Subnautica did that

We Happy Few.

It feels like a first person staple at this point. I think I've even seen it in cod, battlefield, fry cry and other triple a titles.

"It's like, the game... _reminded me_ that it is a game! Fantastic! =D" -Critics

the entire point of stanley parable is all about going against the narrarator and other self aware parodies

​@@gusty7153Stanley Parable's like a decade old at this point

​@gusty7153 Stanley Parable s the grandfather of these types of games.

@@ProcyonNite oh

Don't forget dementia!

bonus points if one of the plotwists is about a character being.... anything but straight

Pfft, Silent Hill did that before it was cool, and it wasn't even indie

I think the best kind of these games is when the author has self-awareness and they're breaking the 4th wall / gently poking fun at the genre. The worst kind is when the game is written / produced / directed / scored / programmed by ONE person and it's just all the author's personal problems spilling over into the game, usually in a really obvious, pretentious way. ("nobody understands my painnnnnnnnn!")

I'm old enough to have lived through the era where games were always *GAMES* (e.g., Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.). They had a tight, addictive core gameplay loop, and nothing else. Nowadays, many indie games don't care about gameplay. They focus on story. And sometimes there's barely even a story--it's more of a "vibe."

hey now it's got that Indie VideoGame vibe going on so that nomination is perfectly a-okay :)

Sometimes I wish I could subscribe to comments

The fact I know exactly which game and which studio this is poking fun of

which one? sorry am out of the loop @@SenorFluffy

@@dowlotistap Dave the Diver

Or could she be Bowser, from other video game?

Whoa!

No, it's golden Freddy. Has to be.

@@_-Lx-_Or she could be both Billy and Mandy in one body…

@@bobalinx8762 Is Aku Aku actually Plank from Edd Ed N Eddy?

bro it's not cool to spoil in the comments :/

Indie games are this generation's bad poetry.

Well, yeah. How would you imprint yourself onto him if he had a deep personality?

We serve games here, sir

Poorly balanced XP, make it dark, extend it, and set it up for a sequel

please name 5 games like this

Why not just order an Undertale rather than saying all that?

Make it a roguelite.

Understandable, have a nice dev

Tell me you wouldn't

Ant sim be like

I did not feel one bit misled

> accidentally bought BMWs as par for the course

Even the new Robocop game has cats all over it lol

There is no such thing as an unhealthy obsession with cats, you physically can't be too interested in cats. Source: I own 12 million cats

The internet is an Indie game all along!!! Holy fudgecream I'm slow!

indie games are all made by scene girls and internet geeks anyway ofc they love cats

I did a tick-tock sound effect!

@@ABeckettKing Thank God, I can still make my five-hour "Why 'What Remains of Sandra' is Darker Than You Think' video essay

There was no woman with white skin, long black hair and empty eye sockets crying with her back towards you in various hallways because you killed her in the car accident. What gives? Also there were no twin lights coming towards you every level transition, symbolising some unknown, mysterious thing (the car accident). Also there were no scattered notes with the words "vroom vroom!" written on them, or pictures of cars childishly drawn in red crayon (there was also a child in the car, and a turtle, but nobody cares about him).

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can't they make metaphors for anything else

​@@yeeoof1995 I mean , yes , but maybe it's a very big/widespread issue among indie game creators, if they use methaphors to these specific problems?

Or hates it

@@johntabler349 Not really. If they hate it, it usually just ends up as sad, spiteful, and not entertaining

@@johntabler349 Nah, definitely from a place of love. People who parody something they hate only have a surface-level understanding to draw from. That's how you get stuff like sci-fi parodies that only reference the most well-known bits of Star Wars and Star Trek, and anime parodies that are obviously drawing exclusively from the episodes of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon they saw bits of on TV before school back when they were kids.

@@fireaza definitely agree as far as ABK is concerned only saying that good parody requires passion

​@@fireazaCounterpoint: Harry Potter parodies. Those come from despise, but nobody hates harry Potter like a Harry Potter fan.

Really, what indie games do you guys play? Cause most of what I play is indie and I can't think of a single one like that.

Ease of making it with low manpower and high cost of resources

@@Skullkan6 So, lazyness?

because indie devs are extremely imaginative and so glad they never took that soul crushing living wage at a AAA studio straight out of uni so they could focus on what matters - the art

​@@sinisternorimakioff the top of my head, risk of Rain, Terraria, and slay the Princess don't. (Risk of Rain got bought out by gearbox, but both the original and 2 were published just by themselves).

Oh wow, you played my RPGmaker game! ;)

@@kaitlyn__L If for real you have made that game, then I will play it.

@@jernaugurgeh451 haha not quite. Helped many girlfriends with various builds along those lines though! (Story, sprites, music, etc.) Don’t know if any actually ended up posted anywhere, even itch!

Hey man VVVVVV is a really cool game :(

You can't just say "from the style of the assets, the motion blur, the camera bobbing and font" and never include a "to" anywhere. If you say "from" at the start of your list of things, there needs to be a "to" in it.

ROFL!

Title is inaccurate, game is not pixel art

Walkthrough is one word without hyphen. But "ABK" needs a comma before it, otherwise your comment implies the existence of something called a "walkthrough ABK."

@@TheGrammarPolice7 I love this!

Also that line seems to be the indie dev trying to cope ("you're too good with computers")

@@vitoc8454 No, what's funny about it is no faults are vocalized at all. It's basically like "Well of course our main character is not perfect. For example: his girlfriend."

It's because I'm too amazing, isn't it?!?!

@@futurestoryteller you open your sentence with "no,..." even though you aren't disagreeing with the person you're responding to.

@@Zwijger Maybe subtlety is lost on you, and debatably two other people, so far, idk.

Couldn’t agree more, except you can’t qualify the adjective ‘unique’.

A mostly superlative reply.

​@@SteeyuvAh, one of the less-unique opinions I have heard : )

@@ABeckettKing thank you ABK, see you on 2nd April!

@@ABeckettKing building a game just for a one minute brilliant joke is something nobody else but you could do. When can we expect the release of Break-up Simulator? At least a full demo 😁

Well done! That last skill is something ordinary driving schools just won't teach you, these days. I usually drive like I'm in a Far Cry game, with predictable results.

After playing Carmageddon for a while, I started automatically picking out jump points and ramps when I was driving for real.

@@kapitan517 Ha! The Far Cry 1 jeeps that rattle around on the spot as soon as you get in them. Watch your health and armour deplete, realise your character is under the car, not in it and the jeep is a dangerous psycho and it has you trapped. That was Far Cry's revenge for all the Merceneries I tricked into endlessly walking into trees and cliff walls. Or maybe the collision detection was a bit shit. Great game though.

Yes! It was Daytona USA for me, picking a line and power sliding to perfection got that feel for the road deeply embedded. 😊

@@kapitan517 It's something like driving stick, they assume you'll learn it on your own time if you really want to.

*insert gigachad ascii art here*

It makes me a little sad that he put so much work into what's effectively an extremely-polished sneer. :(

@@moonsweaterYou have such wonderfully refined sensibilities.

100%

The indie scene has never recovered from The Stanley Parable, and I hope it never does

Yes games should only be made by billionaires no one else should be let in@@liambishop9888

Holy shit, it's niche internet celebrity and ajr superfan Jeremy.

​​@@liambishop9888I don't disagree but this feels like Dear Esther (and probably to a lesser extent Gone Home) erasure ;)

Ruby is hot

*masterpiece. How many times will people need to hear the rule "i before e" until they finally decide to learn it? This is not rocket sceince.

@@TheGrammarPolice7 woah bro do you watch rick and morty bro?

@@TheGrammarPolice7 Ceiling, eight, heist, either, beige, weight, weird, seize...

ruby is hot

Sorry to be English, but that's a teapot. And it's actually a famous teapot from Utah.

Americans have tea kettles.

@@clanofclams2720 So do British people, but that's a teapot, not a kettle.

@@ABeckettKing wasn't replying to you

​@@clanofclams2720"wasn't replying to you" 😂😂😂😂😂

I've seen the real one! It's in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It was almost a religious experience.

That's not a particular high hurdle

It's not an indie game if it isn't aggressively reminding you how boring real life is.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa holy shit I felt that, those are the bane of my gaming existence

I like good indie games.

Naw, games love to add unnecessary difficulty for no reason. The only unrealistic thing is that the game allows you to jump.

@@robertm9631 they have to cut the jumping because it's poorly optimized and formats your c drive

There are platforming indie games, but they are of the 2D 8-bit "things seem cute, but there is a DARK secret" variety, not of the 3D stock assets "mundane life of a depressed person" variety

@@juliamavroidi8601 I draw a line between "independantly made video games" and "indie games." "Indie" has become a genre in video games, as with music. And, just as with music, it's a genre that is synonymous with crap.

PT?

Huffy? Not even pissed off to the extremes or full on wrathful, just huffy?!?!? 😂

How did they even make an actually decent (at the very least) song about *fucking Poppy Playtime*

YOU LEAVE DWARF FORTRESS OUT OF THIS!

Holy shit, it is! rofl

Now I want a game where I'm playing disembodied arms. If they could operate independently, that could be a good puzzler.

@@chaos.corner So "Struggling" then

@@ZC-InfinityMaybe. Thanks.

Indie games becoming 3D was a mistake.

@@redfoxbennaton Billie Bust Up would like a word with you.

And was probably AI generated by some dude on Fiverr

i mean generally it's pretty difficult to f**k up music, so long as it's not painful to listen to

Ah yes, the First Pirate Adventure Game Series Ever Made(TM).

Whoa, you got an ABK heart! And he’s someone who doesn’t just heart every comment! You’re awfully good at that.

@@kaitlyn__L Well well well, if it isn't Kaitlyn! Absolute pleasure seeing you out in the wild.

@@kaitlyn__L ABK and I go way back. We had a chat about physics where I explained that light is invisible and almost positive he eventually agreed and told me he thought I was really smart.

@@Andrew-pr9xv I laughed at the surface level absurdity. Then the physicist in me (and remember I actually specialised in astronomy and optics, unlike some other fields we’ve discussed like fusion) went “well, technically the photons _don’t_ look like anything, I guess? To be visible to us they’d have to have other photons bounce off them and they’re too small for that”. And in this case it’s not even like objects light can’t show but an electron microscope can reveal, with surface features of a few atoms… as an electron and a photon are close in “size” (as much as size means anything/nothing at that scale). 🤔 Maybe you’re smarter than you intended to be! 😉

Actually that's just the vibe and expectation it gives off based on everything you've seen of the trailer so far, which has just been intro cutscenes. Cut to gameplay aaaaaand it's a turn-based deckbuilder.

hollow knight but the player character is a plague doctor

@@oldcowbb as a hollow knight player who still waiting on silksong, i'll take it

Just wait till it hits 68% to see if a red pixel devil face appears.

Both!

Depends if they are of Myth II schoool or not...

You say "the question is," but you never typed a question mark. Grammar is not just a suggestion; you must obey it.

As a pretentious indie developer, I heartily recommend this comment… or I would do, if I wasn’t so depressed.

Gris 😞

The graphics it’s just so crazy

Thank you for reading it!

"On cue" is a stage term. "Queue" is a completely different word. Just fyi

@@futurestoryteller Goddammit I forgot. I was trying to make sure I used the right one and I messed it up, thanks 👍

Have you experienced depression as well?

The game American Arcadia kinda does that but instead of the stanley parable its the truman show