Spotted some indie games last weekend in the wild when I went on a little trip to our new Fry's superstore. It's in Renton, WA, just outside Seattle.

First off, this place is pretty impressive. It's like CompUSA only with much better deals, four times the selection and floor space, and much smarter sales staff.

Anyway, I took a look at the games shelves and spotted three different indie-market retailers:

eGames - one or two so-so collections

PocketWare - only one box title, but the coolest looking for sure... contains 6 mini-CDs, including two games from Cliffski.

GlobalGames (I think?) - By far the most numerous, at least 5 different box titles of various flavors. Wish I could remember their name for sure.

Anyway, it gave me the idea that it might be interesting to actually visit various stores and note exactly what they are putting on the shelves and where. I'll take better notes myself next time. Anyone else care to do this in another major city?

Places on my list to visit: EB Games, Gamestop, Target, Wal-Mart, Fred Meyer, CompUSA...

Not sure if we can consider eGames an indy developper.

They're more of a distributor. ( i've seen them in compusa a long time ago )

pat.

dont get too excited the pocketware stuff is through crystal, and they havent paid me a penny for it. Dont waste your time getting ripped off by retail publishers. stick to online and handle it direct.

Originally posted by Pyabo
Spotted some indie games last weekend in the wild when I went on a little trip to our new Fry's superstore. It's in Renton, WA, just outside Seattle.

First off, this place is pretty impressive. It's like CompUSA only with much better deals, four times the selection and floor space, and much smarter sales staff.

Anyway, I took a look at the games shelves and spotted three different indie-market retailers:

eGames - one or two so-so collections

PocketWare - only one box title, but the coolest looking for sure... contains 6 mini-CDs, including two games from Cliffski.

GlobalGames (I think?) - By far the most numerous, at least 5 different box titles of various flavors. Wish I could remember their name for sure.

Anyway, it gave me the idea that it might be interesting to actually visit various stores and note exactly what they are putting on the shelves and where. I'll take better notes myself next time. Anyone else care to do this in another major city?

Places on my list to visit: EB Games, Gamestop, Target, Wal-Mart, Fred Meyer, CompUSA...

eGames, just like the other mentioned companies are budget retail publishers.

Yea yea... I meant let's spot distributors putting indie games on shelves. This will help in those cases where people are asking "anyone deal with so-and-so?"

And Cliffski, judging from the other experience with PocketWare USA, maybe you should just call them up and ask for royalties. Who was that that posted about it... Bongpig?

Originally posted by cliffski
dont get too excited the pocketware stuff is through crystal, and they havent paid me a penny for it. Dont waste your time getting ripped off by retail publishers. stick to online and handle it direct.

But is it the full version they put on theirs disks or is it just a demo? And if it's the demo, how many regs you get from that?