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Critter Crunch Dev on indie games: Sony supports the living sh*t out of it

November 20, 2009 in News comments 7

Dev's behind Critter Crunch, a cute little indie game on PSN, have spoken out and how supportive Sony is for indie games. They mention how They are constantly helped with working the Phrye Engine, even when sales were not as expected. Sony has also supported many other independent companies such as ThatGameCompany and Q-Games.

"They support the living sh*t out of it, and they support it really well," Capybara's Nathan Vella told Gamasutra when talking about Sony's free PhyreEngine. "Any of the parts that are inside Phyre that we didn't know how to fix or we had an issue with, they would fix it for us in a day. Overall, I think Sony's doing a lot of right stuff for small independent developers."
Sayyed via joystiq.com »
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    Gamesta100 Nov 21, 09
    Which is good.Some of the indie games while a lot more basic and often very short, they sometimes end up better than games made by the usual companies.
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    HisServant77 Nov 21, 09
    I remember reading from a lot of devs, that Sony is pretty supportive of them, especially new devs and everything and they work hard with them and their games. That's something that made me like Sony a bit more than before. Then of course they charge the devs for putting it on their PSN . . . which . . . kinda then evens things out. They help the devs out, but then kinda take a bit more money, in my eyes.

    Still good to hear though that they DO support them like they do.
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    Sayyed Nov 21, 09
    @Gamesta~Quality completely trumps quantity in this case

    @Hisservent~Yeah it does kind of suck that they take more money, but at least they are getting their games released and exposed such as through the .Blog. I mean games such as flower or the pixeljunk games probably wouldn't be as popular or sold as many units if they released on lives indie market thingy, or the PC.
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      HisServant77 Nov 22, 09
      Yeah very true. Which I'm glad to hear they help them out like that. Helps to jump start their gaming rep!
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    Dragoshi1 Nov 21, 09
    Critter Crunch is freakin' awesome, entirely hand drawn and hillarious.
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    ruledbysecrecy Nov 23, 09
    I wish Microsoft did the same... a large reason I ended up selling my 360 was because it just didn't have the variety I needed. Look I love shooting shit but I need more every now and then.
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    Jimbo999 Nov 23, 09
    Critter Crunch o.0 That's an odd game to give alot of support too, but I suppose it makes Sony get a good reputation,and push it to game awards 2010.

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