PeekYou Ranks Indie Developers Based on Web Importance - News

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Indie development is great and all, but how can I know which Indie developers are the best?  Sure I could put them all into a coliseum and force them to fight to the death for my pleasure but that seems a bit morbid.  

Thankfully PeekYou.com has come up with the next best thing: a list of indie developers ranked based on their importance on the internet.  Web importance for this list is based off of metrics like the developer's level of participation in social networking sites, amount of web content they create, and how often they're mentioned in news stories.  

Notable members of the list include Jenova Chen (Journey), Mark Hadley (Slender), and Justin Ma (FTL), but there are some surprises as well with games I hadn't previously heard of like The Sea Will Claim Everything and Dys4ia.  How meaningful this metric for internet importance is is up for debate and it seems odd that the scores are all so close to each other and only make up a range of 7.16 to 6.95.  That said, these type of lists are always interesting enough to be worth a look.

Rank	Picture	Name	Notable Game	PeekScore
1		Derek Yu	Spelunky HD	7.16 / 10.00
2		Jenova Chen	Journey	7.10 / 10.00
3		Jim Crawford	Frog Factions	7.09 / 10.00
4		Justin Ma	FTL	7.08 / 10.00
5		Vince Twelve	Resonance	7.07 / 10.00
6		Jonas Kyratzes	The Sea Will Claim Everything	7.06 / 10.00
7		Anna Anthropy	Dys4ia	7.05 / 10.00
8		Brian Provinciano	Retro City Rampage	7.04 / 10.00
9		Mark J. Hadley	Slender: The Eight Pages	7.04 / 10.00
10		Jamie Cheng	Mark of the Ninja	7.03 / 10.00
11		Dean Dodrill	Dust: An Elysian Tail	7.02 / 10.00
12		Jonatan Söderström	Hotline Miami	7.00 / 10.00
13		Dennis Wedin	Hotline Miami	7.00 / 10.00
14		Matthew Davis	FTL	6.95 / 10.00

Source: [PeekYou]

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