In the tests so far this created a suitable 'net' that erred on the side of caution. One of the few criteria for getting your game on IndieCity is that your game needs to be considered 'indie', which begs the question 'How are we going to achieve that when everyone's opinion of indie is different?' The answer is to turn it on its head and get the community approvers to say whether a game is mainstream or not. Swan: We offer a number of (hopefully) appealing features:
RPS: Can you tell us a bit more about the extended feature set of the site? If there are devs out there who are interested, they should sign up now here. Swan: Right now we're at the private beta phase and are trying to get as many developers' games onto the system ready for our soft launch in a few weeks' time, so the immediate benefit is being there for launch. RPS: What do indie devs get out of signing up? However, we do know that what makes an indie game 'good' is highly subjective, and the recommendation engine therefore gives each gamer a personalised homepage of titles that appeals to their interests. This means the games that are highly rated or sell more copies, get greater visibility. So at its core, the goal of IndieCity is to solve these problems by having an open approval system coupled with a recommendation engine and filter. As gamers we found that the indie gaming scene was very fragmented, which meant browsing a lot of sites to stay on top of the scene. As developers we'd witnessed how hard it could be to get on some of the major portals and also how quickly indie games would slide off of the front page. Swan: The aim of IndieCity is to become the one stop shop for indie games. RPS: Can you tell us a bit about what the aim of IndieCity is?
We spoke to IndieCity's project lead, Chris Swan, about what his team have been up and - given the known difficulty of pulling something like this off - what a portal like this can actually offer independent development. We've been hearing a lot about IndieCity, a new portal and distribution platform for indie developers and indie games, but it's now open for sign ups, so we figured it was time to find out exactly what it was all about.
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