If you want to show off your new project at The Game Awards, it reportedly costs $450,000 for a 60-second teaser, and $1 million for a three-minute trailer, completely pricing out indie devs. Is it any wonder that Team Cherry chose to announce its surprise Silksong DLC in a tweet? In fact, this is a strategy a lot of indie devs are taking right now, declaring on Twitter, "I didn't have $1 million, so I'm posting my game here instead for free".
That's according to a Kotaku report from earlier this month.
There are some real gems to be found in the thread, from a wall-running boomer shooter that marries the frenetic movement of Mirror's Edge and the pulpy gunfights of Quake to a top-down survival horror with a protagonist who looks an awful lot like Claire Redfield - please, Capcom, bring her back already.
It's worth sifting through if you have a few minutes, especially since some of these games (like said boomer shooter, SPRAWL) are already out, and seeing major discounts across the Steam Winter Sale, but here are a few that stood out to us at TheGamer that we'd like to share.
Kickstarting...
