Efter Dave the Diver er blevet nomineret som bedste indiespil til årets The Game Awards, er snakken om, hvad et indiespil egentlig er, taget til. Geoff Keighley forholder sig nu til sagen. Sådan da.
Dave the Diver er udviklet af Mint Rocket, et lille team internt hos den sydkoreanske milliardkoncern Nexon - en virksomhed, der i 2021 havde en indtægt på 1,8 milliarder dollars. Det er det samme som hvis Naughty Dog lavede et lille internt team på 10-12 mand og de lavede et simpelt lille spil, ville det så også kunne kategoriseres som et indiespil?
Manden bag The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, forholder sig nu til nomineringen. Han siger, at "definitionen af et indiespil er svært at definere og at det i sidste ende er op til The Game Awards juryen at vælge de nominerede."
Han fortsætter:
"Dave the Diver is made by a group named Mint Rocket, it's a smaller game from a smaller group but it's part of Nexon, they're employees of Nexon which is a very large publisher. So I think it's a fair debate and discussion - is that game truly independent, or is it not?
And you can kind of argue it either way. It's independent in spirit, and it's a small game, I don't know what the budget is but it's probably a relatively small-budget game, but it is from a larger entity, whereas there are other games on that list that are from much smaller studios.
But even something like Dredge is published by Team17, so is that independent or not, because you have a publisher? It's a really complicated thing to figure out and come up with strict rules around it, so we let people use their best judgment, and you can agree or disagree with the choices.
But the fact that Dave the Diver was on that list meant that out of all the independent games that the jury looked at, or what they thought were independent games, that was one of the top five that they looked at this year."
Hvad tænker du? Ser du spil som Dave the Diver og Pentiment, der begge er spil skabt af et lille team hos et stor spiludvikler, som et uafhængigt indiespil?