[IGDA_indies] State of the Indie

[Thomas H. Buscaglia]

This sounds like a great idea.  I hope you have 
the time and resources to put into it because it 
looks to be a real time hog, especially the 
surveys.  But they would be a great contribution.

I think on thing you need to do is establish a 
clear delineation of what an indie is for 
purposes of the white paper.  Although I do not 
think you consider id and Valve to be within the 
ambit of this work, they are for sure independent 
studios.  So some thought will need to go into 
your target audience in the process.  You may 
want to consider the casual games mail list as a 
possible source for additional independents.

Good luck and let me know if you need any help.

Tom B

At 01:43 PM 5/16/2006, you wrote:
>This is something I wanted to bring up in meeting a while ago, but we never
>got to it. State of the Indie would be a yearly report arranged by the SIG
>showing the ups, downs, and sideways of the indie "industry". To help with
>writing the report, there would be a couple surveys as well -- one big
>survey for gathering gross statistics, and some stages of interviews with
>selected (or lotteried) participants of the big survey for finer details.
>
>I'm already claiming this as my baby, but it'd be great for others (even
>those not officially helping manage the SIG) to join this project so that
>I'm not a committee of one.
>
>Any support?
>
>--
>Christopher S. 'coldacid' Charabaruk <chrisc at meldstar.com>
>Meldstar Entertainment -- Creation³ <http://www.meldstar.com/>
>
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