{"id":210,"date":"2005-09-28T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T09:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=210"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T09:34:24","slug":"shuffling-off-these-retail-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/09\/28\/shuffling-off-these-retail-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuffling off these Retail Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the rants about the problems of the game industry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costik.com\">Greg Costikyan<\/a> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costik.com\/weblog\/2005_09_01_blogchive.html#112751023848334701\">forming a company<\/a> with the goal of promoting indie games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And its purpose, of course, will be to build what I&#8217;ve been talking about: a viable path to market for independent developers, and a more effective way of marketing and distributing niche PC game styles to gamers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manifestogames.com\/\">Manifesto Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following what I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=207\">commented previously<\/a>, I think a crucial part is building public awareness that there is a special set of unique, interesting experiences to be had from &#8220;indie&#8221; games. Players need to know that they want it.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to Greg, who promises to blog the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the rants about the problems of the game industry, Greg Costikyan is now forming a company with the goal of promoting indie games: And its purpose, of course, will be to build what I&#8217;ve been talking about: a viable path to market for independent developers, and a more effective way of marketing and distributing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/09\/28\/shuffling-off-these-retail-chains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shuffling off these Retail Chains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}