B-side Gaming
B-side gaming is a community focused on alternative gaming. Like FOSS games, indie games, hobby games, homebrew. Additionally ROM Hacks, mods and game assets are allowed.
Related content from other federated platforms is pulled into the community with tags. Visible on mbin and piefed platforms.
Feel free to promote your own creations. NSFW content is allowed.
Other gaming communities:
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!citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
City building games. -
!adventuregames@retrolemmy.com Everything about Adventure games and interactive fiction.
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!cozygames@lemmy.world
Cozy games -
!strategy_games@piefed.world Strategy games.
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!space_games@piefed.world Games with a space setting.
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!fgc@lemmy.world Fighting games
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!gameart@sopuli.xyz Video game art
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!askgaming@piefed.social Video game questions
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!TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com Community to find that game you can't remember.
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!gamedev@programming.dev Game development
Rules
- Be polite and don't harass people that post their games or creations. If you do not like a game, explain in a constructive way what you do like about it. Do not just reply, "This game is crap."
- Promoting your own games is allowed, but do not spam the community with the same game over and over again. New updates are always welcome;
- The main focus of this community are Foss games, Homebrew games, demakes and indie or one-person hobby games. Demos or tech demos are also welcome.
- Game mods and ROM hacks are allowed.
- Feel free to share you game assets, (like from opengameart.org or itch.io
- No Spam
- Don't be an asshole!
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A lot of "AA games" get lumped into as indie because they're small studios. Satisfactory and Valheim are both published by Coffee Stain which generates more than half a billion in revenue every year, but usually when people think of big publishers they think of the mega large ones like Sony, EA, Ubisoft, etc.
The publisher relationship is different now than it was 20 years ago, but its still a different scenario to be publisher backed than solely self-funded indie.
I'd argue AA is still a valid label for small studio but still publisher backed games, even if that category is a little murky.