Indie Developer Setting Decisions

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading] polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw 👎🇵🇱 it is very bad

A dark-mode social media post compares fictional settings proposed by American, French, and Polish indie game developers. The American concept is cozy and wholesome, the French concept is intentionally overcomplicated and grim, while the Polish developer simply chooses Warsaw and declares that it is very bad. The joke uses stereotypes about game-design tone and national attitudes toward local settings as a reaction to overly elaborate worldbuilding.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 14556 2024-01-13