i tried loading up my sorel save to poke around in my dragon age feelings but ea player hit me with a ‘please download the latest patch’ error. this game hasn’t been patched since 2015 and i played it first in 2017. please
Every day until the Kickstarter, we’ll be introducing the artists featured in Dames, Fantasy Warrior!
Today, we continue with one of our merch artist, Rynezion!
@rynezion is a long time illustrator, game artist, writer, and enjoyer of strange, fantastical fictions. Her favourite RPG characters are fighters—the beefier and more tragic, the better.
Unironically I think we might run into another video game crash like back in the day
Game creation has become another husk capitalism has its greedy little fingers in and its like. Its genuinely sucking the joy out of it all for more profit and more profit and even if it succeeds its not enough it needs to be more to the point there really isn’t a reason to create games anymore if you’re not an indie dev
And being an indie dev isn’t easy because no one has the time anymore. Everyone is drowning in student loans and low wages. Capitalism is sucking the joy out of them and overworking them and ai art is taking away opportunities to be something unique
Games are $70 fucking dollars now. I can’t afford that like. I just can’t. Most of us are struggling with finances as is.
We’re drowning and it’s happening so fast there’s not enough time to panic
This is what I mean. Games aren’t enough to be good or creative or excellent or fun anymore.
Like. AAA games are unfinished tech demos with dlc tacked on that is mostly content that should have been in the base game at launch
You get an indie game with love put into it and it gets received insanely well and it’s. Just. Not enough.
Its burnout waiting to happen. No fucking body who goes through the trials and hardship that is game dev wants to be laid off after finishing a game there fully put their chest into. Soon why even bother? It’s just another dead end for most and the student loans from learning through school is insane and no one has the time or drive to learn through their own means because we’re working two jobs to pay for necessities.
