Yes I read other sites, I’m just cleaning out some of my drafts file. There are a couple of weeks left before I go back to work. I’m still waiting for my eye to get to where I can get new glasses.

Boing Boing: Game developers’ amazing rants on the state of the industry

You have choices too: work in a massive sweatshop publisher-run studio with thousands of others making the next racing game with the same gameplay as Pole Position. Or you can riot in the streets of redwood city! Choose another business model, development path, and you can choose to remember why you love games and make sure in a generation’s time there are still games to love.

It sounds like as the game industry becomes more mainstream it’s going through similar problems as journal publishing. Libraries would be a good distribution mechanism for independants. Let patrons try the games in the library and when they’re hooked, they’ll have to buy their own versions. The game makers get publicity and libraries have another useful service to offer.