[IGDA_indies] SIG Focus?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Jason Della Rocca
>
> Perhaps a more meta approach would be appropriate:
> - listing resources (ie, pointers to all those things listed above)

I am tempted to say, if one doesn't know how to use Google to find these
sorts of things, one isn't cut out to be an indie.

> - reports on the state of the indie "sector" and issues it is facing

That could be useful.  Could avoid the tendency of minor Balkanized
kingdoms to reinvent the wheel.

> - anything related to industry guidelines or standards (I
> can't think of what would be appropriate here)

Indeed, it's counter to the definition of 'indie'.

> But, the challenge here is that so many indie developers are just too
> swamped and fighting to stay alive that anything that is not directly
> applicable to their immediate survival is not of much
> interest (especially if it means volunteering to get it done)...

Very true.  Throwing energy at my programming projects is my highest
priority.

I concur that the business and legal resources are actually available in
various other places.  I just haven't availed myself of them, because
I'm still far from having a product to ship.

That leaves face-to-face organization at the local level.  This is
what's most valuable to me.


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
                          - anonymous entrepreneur

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