14 DAY TRIAL // Chris Crawford, the founder of the Game Developers Conference and a developer himself, says that indie studios are the ones that can save the medium of video games in the long term.
Kotaku quotes him as saying that, “The indie game developers are doing what the publishers should have been doing decades ago. They are the ones who will save video games.”
The article goes on to offer more information on Crawford’s current plans and how he sees the rest of the games industry evolving.
He founded the Game Developers Conference in 1988 and he left the game industry in 1992.
Indie video games, the best known of which is Minecraft, are at the moment very important on the PC and both Sony and Microsoft are currently courting developers to also bring them to the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.