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Positech's Cliff Harris: 'Mark Rein is a Jerk'

By james_fudge

UK indie developer Cliff Harris is pissed. Harris is the one man team that makes up Positech Games, a prolific developer that has created such indie hits as the Kudos series, the Democracy series, Gratuitous Space Battles and a handful of other games.

Harris got angry at Epic's Mark Rein, who he claims heckled him and a panel of other indie developers discussing the future of micro-studios. That panel, which feature UK developer Introversion and several other indie developers put forth the notion that smaller studios have an advantage over bigger studios because they create personal relationships with their customers through direct contact.

This didn't sit well with Mark Rein, who allegedly heckled the panel and argued with those around him. Harris was not pleased, and a day later, took to his blog to wage verbal war against Rein. You can read some colorful excerpts below: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).