killer_roach wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 19:14:
All depends on the size, scale, and scope of the game you're doing. You don't see indies trying to make AAA titles for the most part - mostly because, on balance, they can't. For the foreseeable future, you'll need a publisher once your budgets exceed a certain level, and for many indies that level is astonishingly low (possibly anything over mid-five-figures is going to test the average indie dev's resolve to do on their own). It's not to say they can't make good games - just like in film or music, there's a lot of quality in the indie gaming scene - but their capacity for production value is, for the most part, considerably lower than it is for other forms of media.