{"id":1202,"date":"2025-07-01T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:11:05","slug":"dave-the-diver-director-says-theres-nothing-indie-about-hit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/dave-the-diver-director-says-theres-nothing-indie-about-hit-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave The Diver Director Says &#8220;There&#039;s Nothing Indie&#8221; About Hit Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mintrocket &#8220;didn&#8217;t apply&#8221; for controversial Best Independent Game nom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dave_the_diver\">Dave The Diver<\/a> is undoubtedly one of the best games of 2023, but it found itself caught in a bit of a storm during awards season as at The Game Awards of that year, the fantastic diving game and restaurant management sim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/11\/is-dave-the-diver-an-indie-game-the-game-awards-host-weighs-in\">was nominated for Best Independent Game<\/a>, despite it being created by a subsidiary of the huge South Korean developer and publisher Nexon.<\/p>\n<p>Now Mintrocket CEO and writer and director on the game, Jaeho Hwang, has directly addressed the controversy in an interview with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/games\/635\/G063598\/20250627083\/\">4Gamer<\/a> (translated by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dave-the-diver-director-addresses-controversial-best-indie-game-nomination-from-2023-theres-nothing-indie-about-us-we-didnt-apply-for-it\/\">Automaton Media<\/a>), stating that &#8220;it\u2019s not like we applied for the award ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/dave-the-diver-director-says-theres-nothing-indie-about-hit-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mintrocket &#8220;didn&#8217;t apply&#8221; for controversial Best Independent Game nom. Dave The Diver is undoubtedly one of the best games of 2023, but it found itself caught in a bit of a storm during awards season as at The Game Awards of that year, the fantastic diving game and restaurant management sim was nominated for Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}