Tyranthraxus posted... 33 people, later increased to 50. Anyone else in the credits is either an actor or a contractor.
Regardless of where E33 lands on someone's personal spectrum for an "indie game", it is wildly disingenuous and misleading (speaking in general, not at you, specifically) to tout this game as being made by a small team of 30 people framed as one of its great virtues, when
hundreds of other people worked on it. And not just token outsourcing, like QA or whatever, but whole animation and music teams and more. The media do this with other games too, like Balatro (much to Localthunk's chagrin), and pretend that hiring people for whatever reason, doesn't "count" and push the narrative of the helpless underdog fighting against all odds and the world. It leads to detrimental misconceptions and expectations for consumers (I'm sure some publishers, too) and a lot of these devs don't actually like these myths being spread around.