Tim Schafer's Indiecade Acceptance Speech Warns Indie Devs About "The Tainted Teat of the Publisher"

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Posted October 18, 2010 - By Kevin Kelly

This year at Indiecade, Tim Schafer was honored with the new Trailblazer Award, which is given out to people who have paved the way for others with creativity and vision in the realm of independent game development. Schafer's work on titles like The Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Psychonauts, among others, helped him net this award, and let's face it, who else would accept an award and use the phrase "tainted teat of the publisher?"

Indiecade: Tim Schafer Acceptance Speech »

There was no more fitting person to present this award than Ron Gilbert, who gave Tim his start at LucasArts nearly 20 years ago. Check out Tim's acceptance speech in the above video from Indiecade, and listen to what words of wisdom he has about independent game development. We love how it closes it out by encouraging everyone to buy Costume Quest. Congratulations, Tim. Seriously.

Check back on Tuesday when we'll have the more Indiecade Award Show coverage, where we'll have everything you'll want to see along with our own look at the Indiecade experience, right here on G4tv.com.

Tags: Indie Games, IndieCade, Videogames, Videos

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Devero

Die Spammer Scum...

Posted: October 19, 2010 8:05 AM
lynch dude8

amazing talented man i was a little disappointed with brutal legend but costume quest looks like a fun break in between all the shooters out

Posted: October 18, 2010 9:48 PM
Angelicsin87

@Symicide
OMG, please don't make use PS3 owners look bad! Have a little class dude. Seriously! Anyways, what's wrong with Tim, He loves innovative games and gamers alike. You're not a true gamer if you don't like Tim or at least respect him. Get out of here ad don't come back until you're a true gamer.

Posted: October 18, 2010 9:20 PM
sodared

The word teat always makes me laugh, I don't know why. I guess I'm immature.

Posted: October 18, 2010 7:22 PM
RPG-fan

Man, Tim Schafer really had a bad relationship with Activision, more specifically Bobby Kotick to make him say the "The Tainted Teat of the Publisher" comment. Not that Kotick doesn't deserve it.

Posted: October 18, 2010 5:39 PM
CLUNGEHUNTERPJ

I bet it would be a real coup in terms of goodwill from the community for EA to give Schafer another big budget. They're becoming the good guys now; kotick is the satan of the industry.

Seriously, Black Ops is the only exciting game coming out of acti at the moment and even that's nothing particularly special. Without CoD they'd be riding Blizzard's coattails

Now EA has some decent studios (Bioware) and the constant flow of sports game money I can see them getting ahead quite soon in terms of sales, especially if MoH does well.

PS. Blizzard seems like it's made of good guys, why are they even working with that Jackass?

Posted: October 18, 2010 5:24 PM
Symicide

Tim Schafer sucks ass. Zero good games.

Posted: October 18, 2010 4:00 PM
Angelicsin87

Hell yeah!!

Posted: October 18, 2010 3:36 PM
JDarkley

Bobby Kotick is still a pr*ck!

Posted: October 18, 2010 3:17 PM
Hinanator

To do your own thing in your own time, nice.

Posted: October 18, 2010 3:09 PM