The indie guys making smaller, successful companies.

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People go into the business of making video games because they're passionate. Hours are long, competition is fierce, and pay can be low. Still, if you work hard enough, one day you can get a job working for one of your favorite companies making your favorite games. Or at least that's the dream.

But increasingly, the thought of working for yet another studio has become stifling for many professional developers. The gaming industry used to rely on developers learning to create games on their own before they would get hired, but the situation is now reversed: developers increasingly spend a few years inside studios and publishers to gain experience, then drop out of the system to make their own independent games.

The main reason is simple: big-name games have never offered less job security, and with the rise of digital distribution, devs who want to sate their hunger for something more than just another wargame have viable ways to sell their own dream projects.

I find this to be an interesting article...

You have a lot of people that are having great success without big name companies(I've heard of the Space Pirates and Zombies game, might buy it later...) and nowadays, it's doubtful that you even need to make AAA games that take up a lot of time and money.

It's always good to have smaller companies than just a few large ones. Seeing as how EA's probably going to lay off a number of people after Origin fails (Yeah, I snuck that in there...) it's good to see that the smaller companies will do a pretty good job of creating their own games that are even more fun to play.