How do you win the indie lottery? You can put a fuckload of effort into your FREE game and nobody will play it then some assholes paid tumblrslop gets them a pop up cafe in japan (not talking about the one by the dog)
You need at least some amount of skill to get you to the dance, then it's down to luck and whether you happen to be able to pierce into the zeitgeist of the time.
This is why trying to make a soulful game for success is a complete meme. At that point just make the most soulless and predatory gachashit you can. Accept that game developers are here to passionately put their thoughts and their soul into the art, with a bonus of the extremely unlikely 0.00001% chance that they get mightily rewarded for it.
>>712489398I don't know how to make gachaslop because I've never played one and I don't want to
>>712489398Honestly, that's not true. Games quality and success are in strong correlation to it. Hollow knight is one of the best games ever made, delta or what's it called is among the most polished rpg maker games.
>>712490479Some of my favorite indie games are literally who tier, so I disagree. And no, I'm not shilling them.
>>712490479It looks like slop with a boring artstyle and generic black and white indie protagonist
>>712487242 (OP)Make waifus that are hot, memorable, and easy to draw. Then relentlessly shill the fuck out of your game. Maybe anonymously commission some artists for R34 of said waifus and spread those around.
>>712491232I am doing the first part
Shilling usually ends with people rejecting the game..... maybe i should do the reverse and countershill the game that nobody has even heard of
>>712490479If you're talking about Deltarune, the real reason for its success is because it was a sequel to Undertale which was extremely popular so it was highly anticipated. The reason Undertale was successful was because it had a really cute goat mommy. The actual moral of the story is to put an animal in your game and make it as fuckable as you possibly can if you want your game to succeed.
>>712487242 (OP)Why does Japan have trash taste in indie games?
