The video game industry doesn’t have much of the exposure and awareness that other entertainment mediums have, such as film or television—having grown to the size and popularity it has over the past 20 years, I’m surprised a project like this hasn’t been capitalized on by a bigger studio.
Then again, that’s probably a good thing. This trailer seems particularly earnest about its subject matter and those being talked about. Indie game developers logically would be the most mentally driven and have the most internalized struggle in getting their game out there. Without support from investors, a large development team, or higher-ups choosing a production timeline, it’s really a free for all for indie game developers to bring their baby—in the form of an innovative digital experience that’s unique to them and their players—into the real world.
By that notion, it should be full of drama, intrigue, and struggle.
Don’t know about you, but it felt dramatic enough.
A good exposé into a field of work that you might not know particularly well is a good way to expand your perceptions and notions of what goes into something.
Which is a nicer way of saying this documentary might make prejudiced or ignorant people outside of gaming culture a bit less so.
More importantly, HBO has picked up this concept, as rumours have said, for it to be a fictional series in a thirty-minute format (thankfully not a sitcom), about an indie game developer building up their game from ground up.
Hit or miss, it could go down to how much consulting HBO does with the gaming industry. You do something like this wrong and—as recently demonstrated about the Internet—if you fuck up, there will be consequences. And gamers are not a particularly forgiving bunch of demographic. It’s HBO though, so fingers crossed.
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