Last week I wrote an article called “Indie games don’t have to act like indie games.” To my surprise, the article became quite a source of controversy for something posted on a Sunday afternoon. AlthoughDavid Jaffe liked it, my peers in the gaming press were not so readily pleased.
Patrick Klepek from G4 said I shouldn’t expect to ever be taken seriously after a long argument we had on Twitter. G4’s Sterling McGarvey said that he’d take any artsty-fartsy indie game over “creatively bankrupt bullsh*t.” The whole fiasco even prompted GameSetWatch to publish ananalysis of the argument. If all this nonsense taught me one thing, it’s this — we need an expert.
Luckily, The Videogame Show What I’ve Done knows such an expert. His name is Virgilio Armarndio, who you may remember from aprevious episode. Unlike me, he is an expert on all things artistic and was happy to set the record straight on a number of things. He also debuted a brand new indie game,Peaches, which we are exclusively showing for the first time.
Get out your most pompous scarf and pour a glass of wine. Above all, enjoy today’s episode!
