Greg Costikyan: “I Hate E3“. He’s out there to find support for Manifesto Games, his project to create a new means of distribution for indie / small-press video games. He found bone-crushing disappointment with the same-old-shit at E3; yet in the midst of such sorrow, he glimpsed a beautiful vision…
Here’s my E3 fantasy for a Manifesto Games booth: bare concrete floor. Metal folding chairs. Bare tables with computers on them running games. Signs saying things like: “Gameplay Over Glitz” and “Pardon Our Appearance, We Spend Our Money on Games, Not Bullshit” and “No Booth Babes Here, Move Along.” And our shwag: Manifesto Games branded earplugs, so you can screen out all the pounding music from all the other booths.
I’m excited.