Quebec has become one of the top regions for video game development, a new study contends. The province, which boasts an estimated 6,200 jobs in the video-game industry, is considered "mature," as it features a high growth rate and complexity of games, said the study by Secor-Taktik, a consulting firm.
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
The biggest Ubisoft studio is here (twice a big in number of employees than ubi central in france). All the good tom clancy's are developped here, Assassin's Creed, and they're about to launch Prince of Persia.
That's where I'm going later.
There's nothing like poutine to induce a creative buzz. :)
Poutine is available all over Canada now. So much for french culture.........
whitch makes it ideal for cooling down the servers. more power to put into servers then on air conditionners. quebec also has killer mountains to ski and snowboard on. nothing like canadian culture.