>go to that amateur game dev thread on /vg/ >it's all shitty platformers or other half-assed games that are just trying to bait people with a cute female protag
kek
why are so many indie games now just gay melodrama where you walk 5 feet and get a bunch of dialogue boxes? and people will try to tell you it's the pinnacle of writing
Art being made by people with tortured psyches has been a thing for a very long time. I think the problem is that a lot of modern art with these themes is not very subtle and basically hammers the audience over the head with it. They need to rein it in.
Focus on having the gameplay be good first and then worry about the story and themes later. That's why shit like Depression Quest sucks because the developer was clearly focused on just dumping their trauma on the player instead of making something actually interesting or fun to play.
>>717594135
Every FOTM indie is traumaslop to mask its atrocious gameplay
There are good indie games, of course, but most of them are literally "LE TRAUMA"
>>717596691
Even in 2010 indie games already had stuff like Dwarf Fortress, Cave Story, Sispri Gauntlet, Cho Ren Sha etc. It's just always been a talking point parroted by uncurious morons that are going to bat for big budget games that they also hate
