AAA games will ALWAYS be better than INDIE GAMES || Interview with Maxime Vézina, dev of Red Trigger
8Maxime Vézina, developer of Red Trigger and Red Trigger 2 joins me in a discussion about his experience with the AAA industry and his experience with steam and starting your own indie game studio.
Red Trigger 1
https://store.steampowered.com/app/491130/Red_Trigger/
Red Trigger 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1610850/Red_Trigger_2/
Articles about Max's difficulties with Steam:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/182vm9e/a_cautionary_tale_about_steam_how_we_lost_250k/
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/be-thankful-this-didnt-happen-to-you-this-week-in-business
The Vinny Vinesauce Stream:
https://youtu.be/XqWjUX4iCW8?si=UfiisjBh7OKvE_zD&t=1700
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Title: AAA games will ALWAYS be better than INDIE GAMES || Interview with Maxime Vézina, dev of Red Trigger
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro, meeting Max
5:55 - Old Retrigger & Red Trigger Remaster
12:17 - Tutorializing Game Mechanics
17:36 - If Max Made a JRPG...
24:41 - Game Engines are tough to learn...
30:55 - Indies will always be better than AAA games
33:52 - Is Dave The Diver an Indie Game?
38:40 - The Cost of Developing
42:17 - How Fidel Came to be
44:40 - Our Time is Valuable
50:04 - Managing is different than creating
58:05 - We Like Red Trigger
1:02:44 - Red Trigger 2 Performs Poorly
1:13:01 - The Rebindable Keys Rant
1:17:26 - Did Max know the performance sucks?
1:21:28 - Getting caught up on chat
1:23:18 - RPG Maker's Stigma
1:35:51 - Red Trigger Reaching Prominent Youtubers
1:41:35 - Teaching Max Deep Cut RM Lore
1:44:41 - How an incorrect release date destroyed Max's Studio
2:19:00 - Collabing to spread the word
2:34:11 - The Games Max made at Ubisoft
2:37:00 - Max's Indie Dev Time
2:42:34 - I ran out of time to continue making time stamps