Indie games, very often, get publishers or they die. Indie bands take gigs for steakhouse jingles. Rappers get signed. People need to eat

a lot of people are going to show their ass and their ignorance on how these sausages get made and i guarantee the reactionary conclusion will be "indie devs have to be desperate and mortgage their house to be indie" like Cuphead wasn't a cautionary tale as per the Cuphead guys themselves

and also another nebulous set of debates on What Is An Indie Game Anyway like Kepler is some publicly traded gaming megacorp and like the Silksong fellas didn't have millions and millions of dollars to play with or like 30 developers is a big team for the kind of game they pulled off

yeah i'm just happy a good game won. i did expect silksong to get more than one award??