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Ian Dransfield

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United Kingdom
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Covers:  Video games, game development, indies
Doesn't Cover: Gambling, NFTs, metaverse
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Ian Dransfield’s Journalist Portfolio

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"Fallout was always seen as a B project": 28 years since the post-apocalyptic RPG launched, its original creators reflect on a long legacy – starting with that very first bomb

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By Ian Dransfield
| Inkl
It might not rank high on everyone's list of the best Fallout games, especially in 2025, but the aggravating charm of it withstands. Going back to the first game now is an initial exercise in frustration – 1997's Fallout was, and remains, a brutally difficult, uncompromising game. If you mess up, you die. If you make the wrong decision, you die. If you don't mess up or make the wrong decision, you still die.
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Dulling the power of the almighty dollar

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By Ian Dransfield
| Media Foundry
A brief chat with New Blood Interactive's Dave Oshry: is 'hating money' a good approach for indies? 25.3.2022 Advice and insights by Ian Dransfield When you’re setting up your company – whatever it might be – a big, important part of it is the URL. You need people to know who you are; you need it to be searchable; it needs to make sense in the wider scheme of things. So should it be wehate.money?
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The second indie boom is modern gaming’s most important event

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By Ian Dransfield
| Media Foundry
As the indie anniversaries pile up, it's a good reminder to look back and appreciate what we have - and where it came from. 18.3.2022 Advice and insights by Ian Dransfield We’re starting to see the anniversaries pile up – here we took a look at the legacy of Thomas Was Alone, 10 years on. Elsewhere there’s been chatter about things like Journey’s 10th birthday, while Braid Anniversary Edition is apparently still coming out… at some point.
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