Great Games From Unlikely Places

When people think of video game developers,they often think of Japan and America as they make the majority of video games and video game consoles,for example Sony are originally based in Japan and Microsoft are originally based in America.But what people don't realize or seem to forget is that many other countries have made their mark in the video game industry,countries such as Poland and Denmark and many others that I will be talking about in this blog.


Poland has made some very notable games including The Witcher and Bulletstorm (I can confirm that both games are very good).The Witcher is a fantasy RPG game based off of a collection of Polish stories.Because of Bulletstorm,the developers of the game,People Can Fly,have made quite a name for themselves in the video game industry.

Another European country that has made a name for itself in the video game industry is Denmark,who have made quite notable games such as Limbo and Hitman:Absolution (also two very good games).Denmark has a history of creating dark yet intriguing stories as Hans Christian Andersens collection of fairy tales also told stories that were childlike yet full of dark humour.Nearly all of the scandanavian countries have made their mark on the video game industry,with Finland making games like Angry Birds and Alan Wake and Sweden making games like Battlefield,Minecraft and Amnesia:The Dark Descent.Scandanavian game developers such as DICE,Rovio and IO Interactive have all made a name for themselves and have become quite popular in their respective countries,showing us that video games are becoming a growing industry in scandanavia.



But a big surprise is the number of indie games being released in the past couple of years (games created by an amateur game developer,not by a development company).Naturally,the majority of these indie games come from America and England.Games like Slender:The Eight Pages and Hotline Miami have become very popular and these games were made by only a couple of people who were not getting paid to make these games and used very simple programming and development engines,not like the high-tech,state of the art gaming engines that the big development companies are able to use.Obviously,these indie game developers don't make much money,at least not as much as big game developers do,but in the past 3 or 4 years,they have become much more popular,which shows me that perhaps the gaming industry is changing,perhaps in 5 or 10 years all video games will be made by indie game developers,and big game developers will be out of business.There is nothing wrong with big game developers,I would just like to see indie developers getting the recognition that they deserve.Anyway,I hope you enjoyed this post.Let me know what you think in the comments.


Cheers,
Darren