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Indiescovery’s Season One Finale

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Calligram Studios / Disney / Kinmoku

Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Calligram Studios / Disney / Kinmoku

Clockwise from left: In a comic book stylised yellow-and-green image, a woman approaches a tree rising out of a lake, with a set of steps leading up to the small island where it rests; Goofy looks sadly to the camera; the Indiescovery logo styled like a video game mini map; and a cartoon image of a white handheld video game console resting on a desk surrounded by a cute cat desk calendar turned to September 2003, a notebook, a pile of game cartridges, and photographs of young teens on a nearby wall.

We begin this episode with a little bit of sad news: the Indiescovery podcast is going on hiatus, due to the fact that Rachel and I are both leaving Rock Paper Shotgun for pastures new. However, there’s no need to be too downhearted, as your favourite indie-loving trio has every intention of continuing to collaborate on a few silly bits and bobs here and there.

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Onto the episode proper: our first topic is a round-up of our recent experiences as jury members forIndie Cup UK ‘23, a festival celebrating indie game devs that ran throughout May and June. As jurors for the Critics’ Choice award we enthuse over our shared love for the well-deserved winnerVIDEOVERSE, before diving into our slightly more divided opinions on the category’s other nominees, the highlights of which for us includedPhoenix Springs,Full Void,Loco Motive, andNo Body. Ultimately though we all agree that it was an incredibly strong showing all around, so our congratulations again to everyone who participated: not just the winners and nominees, but everyone who submitted a game for consideration, and indeed to the organisers! As you may be able to tell, we had a lovely time.

Even though we could probably keep talking about the Indie Cup all day, we next turn our attention to another group who deserve our thanks and recognition: you, our dear listeners. To mark the end of the podcast’s first season, we dive back into the mailbag and get very sidetracked while pondering some of your questions, including (but not limited to) the topics of our favourite very short indie games, and the genres we’d love to see enjoy an indie renaissance.