I didn't go over every single game/creator I've featured over the years, that would have taken too long and many there's nothing to new to report on anyway. But this is a pretty exhaustive (and exhausting) list. I hope you enjoy this look back at five years of Triple Eye, and enjoy the next five years!
The real issue is when these indie devs start making money and suddenly the game takes for ever to make or never finishes, the deltagal guy has been taking koffi moeny for years and the eartboundtale guy too
I definitely like this format I really think that in game development, most failures happen in silence and for indie devs, honestly successes do too The world of indie development is so huge that even someone who actively searches for games like these have only heard of half of them I think more people should really cover the progress of projects, but then again, people barely cover finished games anymore lol Hopefully at least DeltaGal can get finished
Sadly making a game takes a lot of time, and sometimes it feels like a gamble. Majority of those devs work by themselves in their free time, and is kinda normal to suffer from feature/content creep, and going overbudget. Huge respects for those who managed to release their dream game despite all that, especially since you never know if your game is going to be a "hit", or if 5years of dev will end in nothing.
I am kinda sad that you went back over Yooka-Laylee, but never mentioned The Impossible Lair. It's a surprisingly good platformer in the same vein as Donkey Kong Country, and I hear absolutely _nobody_ talk about it!
I obviously have no idea how other devs feel. But personally i think I would probably drop all development of my own indie game if i ended up getting a job where i had to travel a lot. There's just so much more to see outside the screen and the love for my art only goes as far as the love for my life around it. Sometimes you can find closure in an unfinished chapter, Especially if you've already started reading a new book...... Also. It is 1 in the morning as I'm writing this and I'm dying.
I hope Bubsy comes back. Paws on Fire was terrible, but Woolies Stirke Back was great, and they built up a lot of Hype back then with a Bubsy twitter account constantly posting in character. I hope we get the 4 OG games ported over to modern consoles, and a new game, hopefully a 3D Platformer.