Categorization

Could someone explain what it takes to get into the "Cool Indie Games" category in the main menu? As the independant developer of Tribal Trouble, I obviously think it would fit very well into that category :)

And Tribal Trouble is also missing in the "Indie Games Festival" category, even though it was a finalist in the technical excellence category this year. It also seems to be missing in the "Online Multiplayer" category.

And finally, you call it an RPG game in the headline. I think that should have been RTS.

- Sune

Doh. RTS, obviously.

Sorry, I blanked on the fact that it was an IGF game, even though I saw it there; it's added now.

"Cool Indie" is as much a matter of judgment as anything else; partly it's to handle otherwise uncategorizable games that are indeed interesting (since we claim to want innovative titles, we obviously need someplace to put games that don't slot neatly into genre categories, since highly innovative titles, by nature, won't). I suspect it will be a fluid category, with things moving in and out at times, but for now at least, I added TT there too.

Cool, thanks!

Sorry to keep bothering you, but wouldn't it fit into the "Online Multiplayer" category as well?

- Sune

Yes, in the sense that it has an online multiplayer version. If you look at the games in that category, they're all -primarily- online play, though--indeed, with the exception of LSN, none even has a version that's playable offline. So maybe "online only" would be a better name for the category... Note that MMOs are also not in the category, since they have their own.

I think the expectation is that most RTSes do have an online version...

Okay, that makes sense.

- Sune