The industry of mobile games It is undoubtedly on the rise and already moves huge sums of money, but the big studios are not even close to monopolizing all the prominence, and the "unexpected" successes produced by teams with less renown and fewer resources are the order of the day . Now the App Store has finally recognized the importance of indie games for iOS, giving them a special section in iTunes.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has always shown a lot of support for independent games, as proof, for example, the frequency with which these types of titles are chosen as App of the Week on the App Store, and now it has taken a further step in this direction by opening a section specifically dedicated to them.
Helping Promote Indie Games
This new section will help promocionar different independent studios (something of the utmost importance, given the smaller advertising and marketing budgets they have), as we can see already with the first prominent independent studio, Simogo, but it will of course also serve to help users more inclined towards this type of games (which are becoming more and more) to more easily access new titles and recent releases.
The success of indie games
Contrary to what happens in other sectors of the video game industry, the public and the use of games on mobile devices supports such a wide variety of formats, aesthetics and levels of complexity that you can really find titles with dizzying numbers of downloads and income developed by small teams or, even, by a single person, as was the case of the last one these great successes, the very simple Flappy Bird. However, it is not only games as "basic" as this that we should expect, since some of the best games of the past year, such as Badlandswould fall into this category as well.