15 Years Later: How Sony's Net Yaroze Kickstarted Indie Console Development

It's taken me over a year to conduct all the interviews required for this epic feature, but today my expansive article on Sony's Net Yaroze was published on Gamasuta. I speak with a selection of developers from the UK and Japan, including Mitsuru Kamiyama, behind Terra Incognita. There's also commentary from David Johnston who I spoke about recently, plus many other awesome and creative individuals. If you like indie games, or are active in the XBLIG community, then I think you'll enjoy reading about this wild frontier from the later 1990s. It also follows on nicely from a previous entry I did on the Yaroze.
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hWNTitpK210GkZKmZpQC096U3D3gvBaxGsEpgamWcn3RK3HwUdYUiOmP2hFQJHk8lfsu5VBTyk-CIUOs9oAJxwzSJvLHLjAMkIC85Zbu3-VpdJgw6ZBgLT2eYs-xdjz7YU1rQQfelkdF/s1600/yaroze_header.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735711836862936066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hWNTitpK210GkZKmZpQC096U3D3gvBaxGsEpgamWcn3RK3HwUdYUiOmP2hFQJHk8lfsu5VBTyk-CIUOs9oAJxwzSJvLHLjAMkIC85Zbu3-VpdJgw6ZBgLT2eYs-xdjz7YU1rQQfelkdF/s400/yaroze_header.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 100px;" /></a><br />It's taken me over a year to conduct all the interviews required for this epic feature, but today my expansive article on Sony's Net Yaroze <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/169245/15_years_later_how_sonys_net_.php">was published on Gamasuta</a>. I speak with a selection of developers from the UK and Japan, including Mitsuru Kamiyama, behind <span style="font-style: italic;">Terra Incognita</span>. There's also commentary from David Johnston who I <a href="http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2012/04/gateways-is-awesome.html">spoke about recently</a>, plus many other awesome and creative individuals. If you like indie games, or are active in the XBLIG community, then I think you'll enjoy reading about this wild frontier from the later 1990s. It also follows on nicely from a <a href="http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/02/net-yaroze-on-ps1-we-need-you.html">previous entry</a> I did on the Yaroze.