I know this because i went to a job interview, and the guy promised to call me nevertheless i get the place or not, and guess what…. thats almost 2 months ago, and he promised to call in a week

I agree – that does seem to be the main thrust of the Slate article. The title is basically hyperbolic, but it still irritated me.

I think that indie games are caught between two poles – if you’re not overtly making a “casual” game, and you’re also not trying to create Half Life 2 then distribution options are a little bit difficult.

I think dialogue is what’s needed – I have much less of a problem with someone saying, “We don’t want to cover/publish/discuss your game for X reason” than with someone basically ignoring any contact.

Maybe I just impose my own bias on things I read, but the article itself sounded like it was talking more about lack of indie distribution vectors. They acknowledge that there’s indie games out there, but we have no *good* means of getting them to the consumers.

Yeah, there are the portals, and the upcoming Manifesto Games, and affiliate sales programs. Will this be enough? Evidently not.

Our relationship with the press is a big problem. We’re not news. We’re not Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. We’re not Microsoft. We’re not interesting to the public except as the occasional, “look what this crazy person is doing” type article.

We need to make ourselves known. We need to keep making waves and making news. We need to be here to stay, and we have to be *interesting*.

Now if I can only figure out how to DO that…

Let us convene here again, hopefully soon, with tales of reconciliation.