For anyone who this article interested, I highly recommend watching Indie Game: The Movie. To say the least, it was eye-opening for me, as someone who hasn't put much creative work in the public space in any very visible way.
It's incredibly humanizing to see these people who built indie games that I enjoy greatly go through the amount of stress that they do, all over pieces of software that most people rarely blink an eye at.
It's also completely understanding when people like Phil Fish or Don Nguyen quit the industry. It takes a certain mindset, and I don't think people who start making games for the fun of expressing themselves fully realize it at first.
I love that movie, and will stick up for Phil Fish any time. It's really easy for nobodies to sit in obscurity and shit on the guy for doing some of the things he did, but I love him for it. I love that somebody in his position had the guts to tell jackasses to fuck off.
I very much agree... It is a great movie, and shows (though in a "movie way", which, of course, should not be treated as 100% "the real thing") how is more than just money. It can be very personal.
It's incredibly humanizing to see these people who built indie games that I enjoy greatly go through the amount of stress that they do, all over pieces of software that most people rarely blink an eye at.
It's also completely understanding when people like Phil Fish or Don Nguyen quit the industry. It takes a certain mindset, and I don't think people who start making games for the fun of expressing themselves fully realize it at first.