<story><title>The Indie Bubble Is Popping</title><url>http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guard-of-terra</author><text>Discoverability is a huge problem. I would at any time want more turn based strategies in the triangle HoMM-Disciples-MoM, but it seems there aren&amp;#x27;t any? Even if there are, I can&amp;#x27;t discover them! Only thing that still can do is word of mouth.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve scraped Play store for wargames and the best I got was a crappy game I did not run for the second time. I believe I paid for that.&lt;p&gt;Word of mouth is very irregular and app stores&amp;#x27; charts are always full with &amp;quot;safe choices&amp;quot;, i.e. either you know about this title already or it is a knockoff crap.&lt;p&gt;I would like to spend more on good games but I don&amp;#x27;t see much supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wslh</author><text>But the same issue happens everywhere, we have issues discovering non popular web pages because probably the authors don&amp;#x27;t spend a lot of time figuring out the right keywords, forums, etc to promote their work.&lt;p&gt;I think the main problem is that competition is more at the distribution level (marketing&amp;#x2F;sales) than at the product level.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Indie Bubble Is Popping</title><url>http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guard-of-terra</author><text>Discoverability is a huge problem. I would at any time want more turn based strategies in the triangle HoMM-Disciples-MoM, but it seems there aren&amp;#x27;t any? Even if there are, I can&amp;#x27;t discover them! Only thing that still can do is word of mouth.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve scraped Play store for wargames and the best I got was a crappy game I did not run for the second time. I believe I paid for that.&lt;p&gt;Word of mouth is very irregular and app stores&amp;#x27; charts are always full with &amp;quot;safe choices&amp;quot;, i.e. either you know about this title already or it is a knockoff crap.&lt;p&gt;I would like to spend more on good games but I don&amp;#x27;t see much supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text>Somehow I don&amp;#x27;t have problems finding good games through the word of a mouth or by looking at some crowdfunding campaigns. And one can have some expectations. For example I&amp;#x27;m waiting for Wasteland 2, Torment Tides of Numenera, Divinity Original Sin, Armikrog and some others. Out of recent which just came out and which are good is for example Tex Murphy - Tesla Effect.</text></comment>