Stardew Valley Changed the Name of One-Person Game Development

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Players are used to the notion that video games take a dedicated team of developers multiple years to make, and that's true in ninety-nine percent of cases. That's why it's especially impressive when one-person development teams manage to create great games, let alone great games that blow players out of the water and are among the most critically acclaimed of their generation. That's what ConcernedApe was able to do with Stardew Valley, the charming farming simulator that became an overnight sensation.

Stardew Valley has made an indelible impact on the video game world, and not many titles manage to do that, especially titles that are created by just one person. Before Stardew Valley came along, gamers might have dismissed many one-person titles, assuming that they couldn't match up to games created by larger teams with bigger budgets. ConcernedApe has almost single-handedly overturned these preconceptions, and it's not hard to see why.

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There's no denying that ConcernedApe is uniquely talented, but his efforts to create Stardew Valley helped to shift preconceptions about one-person development teams. While there is a wide array of developers, and this translates to the types of video games that they release, there was a pervasive school of thought that bigger probably equaled better. Games with smaller developers were usually expected to be flawed or limited in some way, and that was part of their charm. But then ConcernedApe came along and completely changed the narrative around these smaller indie efforts, demonstrating how games that have more development power behind them can't always outshine the ones that don't.

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