Thread 716308946

Whats the deal with all these well made, aesthetically decent but boring premise games?
A 4 year old could deduce that this game wouldnt sell 2k copies so why are so many indie devs wasting their time and talent on making this?
Annapurna seems particularly egregious when it comes to this. All of their games are very well made but most are complete flops

>>716308946 (OP)
the industry has more artists than good game designers

Heres another prime example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/Thirsty_Suitors/
>From Outerloop Games comes Thirsty Suitors - a game about culture, relationships, family pressures, and expressing oneself.
>Can Jala handle her demanding parents, reconcile with her exes, and mend broken friendships in time for her sister’s wedding? Will she be ready for the impending visit of Nani, the family’s terrifying and judgmental matriarch?
>You play as a jeet bi woman who skateboards around battling their brown exes
Who the fuck is this game for? Clearly a ton of time and effort went into making it and its all time peak on steam was 47 players

>aesthetically decent
Are you going to post some or just ugly corporate safe wokeslop?

>>716309551
lol what does 'corporate unsafe' look like in a 3d artstyle other than something deliberately crude?

>>716309551
Ok, perhaps I meant to say it has a striking visual style that isnt just low effort blender tutorial models
Some artist presumably spent a fair bit of time on it

>>716308946 (OP)
Stardey Valley and its consequences
They all make good looking but """comfy""" games (but they're just as boring)
They think they can sell well but they all end up flopping

>>716309370
>ton of time and effort
Jeet time and effort is worthless. There's over 1 billion of them.

Is there a name for this kind of artystyle where the characters all have an unmistakable onions/reddit/hipster appearance?
It always instantly makes all of the characters unlikeable to me.

>>716310297
>onions/reddit/hipster
can someone please offer this struggling man a dictionary and a thesaurus? he's incapable of expressing himself at all.

>>716310297
Google SketchUp shading

>>716308946 (OP)
>aesthetically decent
It looks like absolute shit most of the time, you cherrypicked

And because indie games are garbage made by retarded BlueSky leftists

>>716308946 (OP)
It's a trend like PS1 styled games that don't look like PS1 games.

>>716309370
this could have sold well if they made it about attractive characters instead of indians and blacks

>>716310369
sorry if I made it too complex for you, zoomie

>>716309651
Anime

>>716309135
Reminder most indie "devs" are film and art school dropouts.

>>716313254
how did this come to be?

>>716308946 (OP)
it's funny because i like the gameplay but it's the shitty woke artstyle that is making me not like this game like it should. and yes, the artstyle can be wokeslop and you know it, but i'm not gonna elaborate further

Another example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3595850/City_of_Spells/

>>716308946 (OP)
>>716309370
Onions ass art style. This looks like shit. Retro 80s - 90s graphics are far more soulful

Forgot pic

>>716318148
>aesthetically decent
nigga this looks like a 25 year old flash game, and not in a good way. Adventure Quest lookin mofo.

>>716308946 (OP)
Left-leaning middle-aged white millennials (and gen-X) are the ones who seem to be into this stuff
Take Panic
https://panic.com/
They make banger Mac apps…and also the Play Date and Firewatch
Reminds me of that one Saxton Hale comic for people with weak constitutions where he heroically retrieves a shuffleboard puck from a runaway tortoise

>>716309135
Except the art is also bad. There are about as many good artists as there are good designers.

>>716309135
Truke. Also endless amounts of ideas guys.

>>716309135
Yeah im thinking this
You know when you load a game and it has really slick ui, cool animations for things
The design is really impressive but then you get to the actual gameplay and its half baked or mind numbingly boring and the story is about taking your gay dog to the vet or some shit

>>716308946 (OP)
A finished game looks better on your resume, the devs hope to get noticed and hired by a bigger studio

>>716320097
Nope there are a lot of good and skilled artist
But not enough desingers

>>716308946 (OP)
I think that the trend for games have forgotten about the "rules" and instead focus on the bigger picture of experience. Strong visual and sound design are cheaper to do than gameplay (e.g. this stupid video making rounds) since what looks good is more obvious than what plays good, and many of the executives that greenlight projects and act as cheerleaders for the developers probably don't play video games anyways so they literally do not understand how important play is part of the experience.

>why don't they make passion projects anymore
>Indie dev makes passion projects
>Somebody thinks of the heckin investorinos

>>716322557
Normalfags don't like games, they like the idea of games.

>>716308946 (OP)
i think most indie games on steam are made for a "portfolio" to get hired somewhere else