Citizen Game
November, 2008
Originally, the games industry was the domain of the one-man rock star, the genius who did everything himself. By contrast, the teams that make today's games regularly top 100 people. Now, however, driven by cheap online distribution and a large, willing consumer base, the one-man rock star is back, reborn as the indie game maker. "Right now the mainstream industry is lather, rinse, repeat," says Sony's Rusty Buchert, the man responsible for signing critics' darlings Everyday Shooter,...
