It's always depressing when I see one of those "here are the inspirations for our game" tweets and its just 3 other games from 10-20 years ago. No books, music, films, nothing. Indie games now suffer the same issue as AI where the inputs are from the same source as the outputs
The best game developers in the past were well-read people who didn't actually play that many games. I can't think of a person less qualified to make a good design decision than someone who thinks playing video games is a "hobby" and who has 500 titles in their steam library
The same thing happened with hollywood over time as the influences from theatre, books and paintings gradually got replaced by influences from film itself. America should adopt a Mamluk system where new film directors and game developers are drawn exclusively from enslaved Amish
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