Genres/subculture are naturally smaller, but they tend to be more loyal and invested (yes, I'm making lots of generalisations). We've seen some of this with cosy/wholesome games - although those identifiers have been watered down by the number of devs targeting them. - ThreadSky

andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social • 116 days ago

Genres/subculture are naturally smaller, but they tend to be more loyal and invested (yes, I'm making lots of generalisations).
We've seen some of this with cosy/wholesome games - although those identifiers have been watered down by the number of devs targeting them.

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andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social•116 days ago

Seems like nearly everyone in the industry wants to be associated with "games" first, and getting lost in the crowd when they could be finding their people by embracing subcultures and genres.
We can't all be the biggest fish in the biggest pond, and we should be embracing that as an opportunity.

andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social•116 days ago

tl;dr - fans that love any type of non-AAA game don't really have the community or media to celebrate, share and obssess about that love. We need the gaming equivalent of "metal", "hip hop", "country"... And when we get there we'll soon see the game equivalents of "metalcore" or "drill" appear too.

tomnullpointer.bsky.social•116 days ago

This is true, but its is also very hard right now to make any money when you are trying to grow an audience in a music sub-genre too (arguably even worse than games!).

andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social•116 days ago

I wouldn't disagree that music is even more commerically fubar'd than games :(
But - and while we've still got some half decent revenue streams - the way they connect to their audiences/potential purchasers seems much stronger

tomnullpointer.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yeah thats true, and similarly Id love to see games publishers acting more like indie music labels. I think there are some examples. Fellow Traveller, Hooded Horse etc, But games has a lot fewer avenues to reach audiences than music too :(

tomnullpointer.bsky.social•116 days ago

Also music has a lower barrier to creation than games (in most cases) so you can 'do music' alongside other income, games its harder..
I'm not quite sure why I'm saying this tbh other than I think there's some economies of scale etc that make the two mediums hard to compare.

rudolfkremers.bsky.social•116 days ago

Well put, I agree with it and to some extend there are some areas where this is happening. Dedicated tubers specialising in certain genres, subreddits, a few genre centric Discords...

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