As the AAA video game industry is rocked by layoffs and spectacular failures, smaller and more agile AA game dev studios are taking the center stage. But not everyone can make it in this competitive environment — just having a good game may no longer be good enough.
We ask Paweł Miechowski from 11 bit studios (makers of This War of Mine, Frostpunk and The Alters) and Iain Garner from Neon Doctrine (publishers of The Legend of Tianding, Simulacra and Yuppie Psycho) about AAA woes, market readjustment after the Covid-19 pandemic and whether it’s better to aim for broad appeal or lean into local stories.
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