“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts
Dispatch is a choose-your-own-adventure game. It's been a viral hit that you can see clips of all over social media for the past couple of months.
I don't really think of it as an indie game though, as it was made by a team led by ex-Telltale veterans and they hired the, now long established, Igloo Studio to do the animation production. I'd be surprised if it cost much less to make than Clair Obscur did, but if that's a debut indie game too...
@FishyS Yeah, the definitions that they're currently using are clearly far too broad.
The best explanation I've heard is that a lot of people thought that Dispatch deserved to be nominated for something but just wasn't a good fit for any of the other categories. However, it's a new studio and they don't have a big-name publisher, so into Debut Indie it went.
I mean the problem I have is that the Game Awards have fairly boring tastes in games and enough of the people involved with it don't actually play enough games.
This was abundantly clear in 2018 where conveniently the three biggest acclaimed AAA games (Spiderman, Red Dead 2, God of War: Ragnarok) were among the best at every single thing possible. Most annoying to me in hindsight was best soundtrack which did not have Xenoblade 2 despite being eligible. By comparison, I think the category issues are minor or at least way more understandable.
Though to be fair, it is less embarrassing to not play every 15+ hour game than when Oscar voters won't watch the 2 hour movies to vote for.
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