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Re:I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games by Pimpus on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:02AM (#20807551)
Why do we keep repeating the line that he is "successful" and worth listening to? He has been at this for 25 years and nobody outside HN has ever heard of him. And no, being on the front page of HN does not make you successful.

> Your opinions mean nothing. his success does.

The opinion of the consumer is everything, and... graphics are easily the most important element of a game. This is just obvious common sense, even if game devs don't want to admit it. And posting a screen shot of dwarf fortress doesn't disprove that. If DF had graphics and a normal UI, it would have been a minecraft level success, even with the insane amount of bugs it has.

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Re:I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games by Scarblac on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:15AM (#20808288)
He supported his family making indie games for 25 years doing it his way, for me that counts as successful. In fact what is success is defined by him, and he considers it a success. Who cares who has heard of him.

Graphics are the most important element of a game for you, perhaps. Nethack's tile sets all make the game worse than its ASCII version.

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Re:I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games by wnkrshm on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:22AM (#20807652)
He did a GDC Post Mortem - I have heard of him outside of HN.
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