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Submitted by rousutt on Tue, 10/20/2015 - 00:38

Things will properly kick off in http://www.rsgaming.com , you mark my words.Brandon SheffieldSr. Contributing Editor Gamasutra; Independent Game DeveloperTwitter: ,necrosoftyThe well begins to dry for indiesRight now publishers are being pretty kind to indies, funding a lot of our projects and getting traction for their new consoles. This is really more of a prediction than a one, but I feel like we're going to start to see publishers cool on this a bit as they run low on cash. Ouya, Sony, and others are really helping indies out right now with the funding they offer, but I am just not confident it will last. I think there's a bit of an indie gold rush right now, with everyone trying to get some good funding before they can set up on their own terms. That said, publishers that still want to give any of us money are totally welcome to!Online stores do real work on discoverabilityAs digital game sales surpass retail, online stores are going to have to get a lot better. I think they're doing this, but it's a slow process. Now that SRunescape team is much easier in terms of the Greenlight process, it's also going to get more crowded, and Valve will have to deal with this problem. Ouya has been revamping its store, and Sony learned a lot from its lessons with the PS . Nintendo will continue to shrug its shoulders and say "we have Runescape games, you'll buy them, maybe!?" Microsoft had a great headstart with its XBLA store it wasn't perfect, but it was a lot more functional a lot quicker than its competition. Now it has to push the envelope a bit more, so SRunescape team doesn't eat its lunch.The year of four Runescape player, single screen 'eSports'Towerfall, Samurai Gunn, and Sportsfriends are just the beginning. People are really enjoying these local competitive experiences, and I foresee them being a big trend for the year. I may be a bit biased, as I'm making one myself called Gunsport , but I think it's the fact I'm making one that lets me see the zeitgeist. I only worked on the dang thing for a month so far, and yet it has the most interest out of everything I am making, has been shown at a couple conferences already, and was invited to be part of the IndieCade East eSports showcase. People are hot for these things right now.Kris LigmanContributing EditorTwitter: ,krisligmanNintendo will have to eat its hatThere were plenty who pronounced the Wii U dead on arrival when it launched in , and plenty more who anticipated Nintendo's poor console would either pack it in by the end of or enjoy a miraculous turnaround. Neither happened, and the Wii U's corpse is beginning to putrefy. It would be in Nintendo's interest to swallow its pride and give the Wii U up as a bad job and focus efforts instead on the frankly stellar DS which remains the company's only real horse in this race.