Bigger independents do indeed dominate: five of them make 80% of all independent programming hours.

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Only consolation (not that this is schadenfreude or anything) is that the PC used for programming it for independent flight apparently threw a hissy fit on the day, so the only good video available is of a guy piloting it.

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The lack of standard broadcasting equipment has so far prevented Caribbean independent producers from competing with foreign programming, as well as from gaining access to the international market.

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Shepherd and Luckyanova have hired support, marketing, and public relations help, but for the game design itself they simply hired several friends from the independent developer community to work part time on the art and programming.

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If anything, the logic goes, too many independent owners will go after the "greatest common denominator" of programming to solicit the most advertising, whereas a single owner will purposely create diversity to avoid overlap and cannibalization.

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