RE: [GD-Design] Indie games?

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

>One advice from the trenches: if you start out doing a strategy
>game, make sure it doesn't hit the market right between the=
 then-
>current iterations of BlizzardCraft and Age Of Ensembles. :-)

A-ha, but that assumes you're writing a game that competes with=
 them 
stylistically, and I would submit that that is a losing battle no=
 
matter how good you are =3D)

A better example might be the aforementioned Combat Mission or=
 CA's 
Medieval: Total War.  The Total War stuff has sold very, very=
 well, 
and I think it's partly because it wasn't the same resource 
management RTS that everyone else has written a million times.

It also really pushed the envelope with having so many units on 
screen, which looked awesome.

Brian