Thread 544981938

hopechuds edition

>Demo Days
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Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA

>AGDG resources
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>Helpful links
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Archive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg/
/agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/
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>How to Screen Record
https://getsharex.com/
https://obsproject.com

>How to Webm
https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter
https://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam

>Previous thread
>>544918597

oh you motherfuckers, listen: steam revenue calculator says trainwiz made 43 fucking grand net from 366 reviews at $19.99. HE is fucking saying that he has fucking netted 300 fucking grand. now use your retarded brain and wonder for yourself for a moment, how in the FUCK, could he possibly net 300 fucking grand off of a review estimation of 43 fucking grand? riddle me that one, retards. we're talking 7 fucking times difference.

Face it, if you’re not making slot machines marketed toward 8 year old children, your game is absolutely gonna fail.

I feel uninspired.
I think I'll take a short break, probably wind up back in engine in a few hours.

>>544981938 (OP)
checking 256fes is actually incredible

>>544982231
You're being sarcastic but if your game doesn't make it on youtubeshorts/tiktok just project hop, look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_5njxCKCYlg

2 millions views with 11 followers but a youtube and a discord

>>544982461
i don't watch shorts because i'm not a zoomer. also 2 million short views translates to about 234 normal views

>>544981938 (OP)
>mfw i thought this game would do well
>it flopped so hard they removed it from the store and you cant even play it anymore
life of a flopdev with flopdev instincts

>>544982541
I don't give a shit about the platform as long as I get eyes on my game and he literally shows that having a small community that consumes your shortform content is more valuable than followers, probably even wishlists nowadays.

>>544982461
Thanks for the tip. I’ll throw $500 of my marketing budget toward TikTok.

>>544982202
What kind of mental illness is this called?

>>544982231
>toward 8 year old children

How expensive can 30 seconds of a Zoomer playing my game actually be?

>>544982923
Idk what's gonna happen with the israeli takeover of tiktok but you have to be dumb not to make one as a solodev.

This whole game is going to end up costing me $20s of dollars.

>>544982648
Why remove it from sale does it cost to keep a game up?

>2 million short views translates to about 234 normal views
the level of cope and reality denying is hilarious with the crab goreposter

https://steamdb.info/app/2592220/charts/#max

cuffbust 24h peak is now in double digits, can he recover? i feel like youtubers have a higher chance of pulling a comeback

Are the schizos developing psyops into independently developed video games in the thread with you know?

>>544982648
it's mistover...

>>544983336
I feel my cuff being busted...

>>544982937
It's called "why you never reply to schizos"

skill = learning ability * effort + talent

I wanted to warn about a scam going on the v3expo discord some moderator is pming users and offering to give away 1 year of claude code and comet browser to make gamedev easier. They then give you invite link to comet browser which gets them 3 dollars and then they tell you to login with your gmail account, they tell you to login on mobile first to sync your mobile data like gmail, contacts, etc to it. Then this google account will be connected across multiple devices and they will steal your your data.
I tried telling the owner of the discord but he blocked my private messages.

>>544983429
+ money

I CUFFBUSTED NIGGA

>build a system for a third person RE style game so I can make a dino crisis ripoff
>dinos are surprisingly hard to implement especially bigger dinos
>start thinking of directions to pivot

...The Thing? Lovecraft?

>small debugging session
>fast forward 2 hours later and still no fix

>>544983765
chatjippity will fix it

Instead of listening to all the indie game analysts in this thread, just understand at some like a professional studio, you will need to pay a group of people to play your game for quality, feedback, and marketing. Saving a small budget for this would multiply any good work you have already done.

Reminder to use good keywords

>>544983336
he has his nose to the grind stone, huge free update coming with 10 incredible maps. using his money and clout, he's been in touch with some of the industries best level designers and got them on board for this update. not only that, for the launch of the update he has organized a celebrity jail break stream, featuring Henry Cavill, Terry Crews, and Jack Black, and Snoop Dogg.

I can't make a game because I'm lonely.

>>544984036
>>544983336
>nepo baby has social net and survives fall
wowzers

>>544984085
That’s why you’re making it with us. We’re all making our own games alone together.

>>544984036
All that from a train game...

>>544982303
right?
I'm doing the challenge while learning, it's a little hard but is very satisfying

>>544984148
Can I see yours?

>>544984250
Nope, you’re interrupting it actually.

>>544984174
cris is better

>>544982541
>2 million short views translates to about 234 normal views
I hope this is a joke, otherwise this is one of the mos delusional takes I ever read in this general.

wtf the addon i'm using broke

>>544984498
I'm not delusional fuck you

i will not make youtube shorts
i will not devlog
i will not make a tiktok
i will not tweet or bluesky

>>544982202
you alright unc

>>544984589
>addons

>>544982979
we need to ask why people love picking between 3 items but hate picking 2 or 4 btw

luddite xisters I do't feel so good

>>544984730
the 4th option is reroll/recycle

>no progress no devs
>I don’t feel so good

>>544984737
Looks like shit

>>544984737
actually i identify as ludditefluid (sometimes i love AI sometimes i hate it)

>>544984174
god I wish I could make good textures

>>544984174
the only thing i dislike is the hands, i guess you can get away with it but bleh

>>544984847
where is yours?

how do you promote a game on tiktok or shorts if the format is in portrait mode but your game is in landscape? it's literally impossible.

>>544982202
The estimates are probably wrong.

i might have gamedev and insomnia induced dementia

>>544984730
why? you can count to three so present 3 options to pick and no problem

Is DDM here?

nom nom nom

>>544984730
I'm doing 2 and 4. it kinda averages out to 3...

>>544985006
same

>>544985123
where is yours?

>>544986036
Okay and where is your textured 3d model?

>>544985006
>god I wish I could make good textures
The secret to good art is taking your time. A lot of people expect to wham bam it... Real OGs put sweat, tears and long nights into creating cool art.

>>544985762
Prompt?

Hello, I'm here for a random progress inspection

>>544986251
progress inspection day...

>>544986171
where is yours?

>>544986176
I've put a lot of hours into 3D modeling and can make decent low poly stuff but I haven't practiced 2D art in a long time and I don't have a tablet ._. I might get one but I've just been going with pixel art with my mouse or just gradients

>>544986415
No its just in general. There id one progress post so far. Just people talking about their game snd posting it on discord.

0: work on my game
1-9: re-watch TV interviews of this girl who I went out on a really awkward date with 12 years ago

I'm no good at making games, but I have money.
Is there something I can do with that?
Anything indie devs can't afford / don't want to deal with that they'd be willing to sign off part of their sales and IP for?

im modeling inside blender 4.0 right now, i cant post any progress (it would spoil what game im working on(its a secret project))

>>544986528
You don't need a tablet for most texturing. I only use tablet to draw curves. The rest I paint with mouse. It's faster and more precise. Tablet is just good at long strokes that vary.

>>544982202
>using the boxleiter method

>>544986171
here, it's still in process
I'm still struggling doing the unwrapping since I don't have a lot of space, and making textures that looks good is difficult too

>>544987823
then hire devs/ art people to make game

>>544988204
it's roughly correct for both of my games.

>>544988426
It's like a fifth of what my game is.

It's time to put influencers into a big spreadsheet so i can send out steam keys in 6 months.

>>544987823
I need an investor yes. Do you have an email?

>>544990539
>ahhh i have to make gamesloppp!!!!

>blow has been raiding arcs for 9 hours
genuinely surprising.

>>544990443
here's a throwaway one: widire9364@filipx.com

>>544990764
what would a jon blow designed fps be like?

>>544990806
Got it will e-mail you soon thanks

>>544990539
>Bitcoin
You know what that is.
>BitCoinCoin
A cyptotoken minted on the ethereum network blockchain.
>BitBitCoin
An encryption technology using bitcoin.
>BitBitCoinCoin
An encryption technology using a cyptotoken minted on the ethereum network blockchain.
>BitBitCoinCoinCoin
A cyptotoken spent within an encryption technology using a cyptotoken minted on the ethereum network blockchain.
>BitBitBitCoinCoinCoin
An encryption technology using a cyptotoken spent within an encryption technology using a cyptotoken minted on the ethereum network blockchain.

Post your minimum viable game for free on Steam.
If no one's playing it then work on something else.
If it's getting players then keep adding content and keep increasing the price like Factorio.
What's the downside to this approach?

>>544991006

>BitBitBitCoinCoinCoin
An encryption technology using a cyptotoken spent within an encryption technology using a cyptotoken minted on the ethereum network blockchain
IN POG FORM! LIMITED EDITION!

>>544991025
>Overwhelmingly Negative
Game used to be free, developer is a sellout.

>>544987823
You're gonna get shilled junk here. you should try scouting subreddits/twitter and ask people(There's also demo day on friday), if you're gonna be serious about it. and if you are and have 400k to give to 5-10 people, start a proper company/publisher account with steam.

>>544991025
>work on something else
>no one plays it
>work on something else else
>again no one plays it
>work on something else else else
>no one plays it

>>544991089
That would be BitBitBitCoinCoinCoinNFT.

>>544991215
I only have bitbitbitbcoincoincoin.com. bitbitbitcoincoincoinNFT.com and .net are all yours.

>>544991025
no one wants to play a minimum viable product, so you'll never get any audience.
they want it to be good with lots of content from the start.

Bitbitbitcoincoincoin.net will have all technical specifications to tie into the network and mint your own POGs, frog cards, and accept payments via the bitbitbitcoincoincoin network.

how retarded am I for deciding to drop out so I can make my game? I feel like it's the only thing I can actually work on all day without wanting to die

>>544991545
You’re going to need a lot of help if you want to finish it.

>>544991545
I want to drop out so badly but I have to keep going or else I will disappoint my family and I guess I also need a degree to get a job that will allow me to dev on the side. It's probably not a good idea.

What makes up good marketing vs bad marketing?
How does one classify the quality of marketing?

why the fuck am i bothering with game dev? just to suffer? my ideas are shit, i’m shit, the market is oversaturated, i should just die

>>544991141
thanks for the suggestions.
and what do you think are the services I should be offering?
I can think of :

- paying for freelances for extra / better assets (art, music, etc)
- paying for console porting services (I hear those can be pretty pricey)
- marketing
- publishing cost (steam is only a couple hundred bucks, not sure how expensive they are on other platforms)
anything else?

>>544991392
I actually made a frog card generator by the way.

>>544991826
Python? Mines gonna be on the back end.

>>544983765
No such thing as a "small debugging session". Each time you are going on a hunt, and will stalk your prey across the code blocks. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. Don't give up.

>>544991790
I'm just a dev who hasn't found success yet. dunno how the publishing business works.

>>544991870
Yeah it's python.
I made 11 rarity images for that.

Every time a bitbitbitcoincoincoin gets minted, a certificate of ownership and authenticity gets printed out and falls into a slit in my safe, and you can watch it live on camera.

>>544992032
but as dev, you'd be my client. so what would you want from a publisher / producer? what would you hire me for?

>>544992153
I also be hosting the clients on itch.io for everyone’s sake.

The released games will be in meme form, directly playable with a QR code and link to itch.io to play them.

>>544991687
why and how would you make time to dev while having a decent career path you invested time and effort getting into? It would make more sense to pick one and fully focus on that

>>544991741
good marketing targets your audience. speaks to their heart, shows them fun things you can do in the game often. bad marketing spams 5 game related reddit subs with a trailer* one evening and cries himself to sleep.

*the trailer opens with a black screen with a white text philosophy quote. it fades out with a dissolve, the 'studio' name fades in, holds for 5 seconds, fades to black, following that, 5 separate slow panning environment shots while horns_epic_battle_005.mp3 plays. 30 seconds into the trailer, cut to the game being played with erratic camera movement, and a synty knight fighting an enemy with the miaximo 360 over the shoulder strike sword animation.

TRVKE Part 2 just dropped

https://youtu.be/zNGhfPFresw

>>544992092
the worst poster in decades

>>544992210
What you mentioned. localization to chinese, japanese is huge, german and spanish after.
I think you usually hand the devs money and let them source freelancers/just live off the money but offering your help is fine. publishers are supposed to have better connections.

this is how you actually advertise
https://www.youtube.com/@ericalfaro3318/videos
not by becoming a failuredev grifter making "tutorials"

>>544992382
Because game dev won't put food on the table nor a roof over my head, I will need a job for that.

>>544992547
glimmerwick is in trouble isn't it...

>>544992210
I emailed you I'm ready to talk biz.

>>544984730
>>544982979
>tfw you hate the number 3 but have to put money on the table
sometimes I even skip 3 when I number variables

>>544992547
Bellular made this video today, Steam is changing it's discoverability stuff which means they acknowledge there's an issue and indie devs are getting massacred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_fajUuIHF0

>>544992942
no fucking way... drone technology has improved way too much

>>544993019
He took a shit in my mail box then just a flew away!

>>544992968
retarded garbage video holy shit
what a pointless scourthrough

>>544993220
>HEY KIDS! STEAL YOUR PARENTS CREDIT CARDS AND BUY THE GAME THATS BANNED IN 12 COUNTRIES!

>>544992942
why isn't this a game yet?

>>544993330
That’s guaranteed buy from me. I’d even get in on the publishing rights if I had a shot.

>>544992672
thanks for all the advice, man.
I don't think I could give someone enough money to "live off" / pay him a salary. at least not for a first-world living standard.
realistically, my clients would only be small indies, at least at first.
so the best we can hope for is a couple grand in sales, which therefor is also how much I can give them at most without losing any money myself.

>>544993410
Seriously, if someone one wantsto start on the artwork, we’ll just copy the game mechanics from Desert Combat on genesis and use my isometric engine. We can incorporate bitbitbitcoincoincoin into it. I have military aviation experience, so we can credit me as a military advisor.

>>544993607
Little cat drone strikes on Ukrainian trenches, it’ll be perfect. I want to be the Alex Jones of game development.

>>544982231
i'm betting on the autistic retard demographic to enjoy my grindslop

>>544991545
Depends, post some progress.

>>544984618
you will not make money

>>544993312
You must be 18 or older to post on this website.

>YOU HAVE TO BUY GAMES DIRECT FROM MY WEBSITE ON USB DRIVES!
>OR ELSE THE FURRIES OR THE NSA ARE GONNA SPY ON US WARGAMING THE INSURGECY WITH KITTY CAT DRONES!

>>544990887
destiny or borderlands, autists love grindslop, i'll keep saying this until it makes me rich
autism + grindslop = success

>>544993949
just scaroused this post didnt like anything in it

>>544991025
free games on steam can't be changed to cost money

>>544985762
That's a rather big boss for a rather small arena.

i refresh my games twitch page 60 times a day to see if somebody is streaming it (nobody ever does)

>>544994106
>Base price minimum: USD 0.99 or equivalent in each currency. Discount base minimum: USD 0.49 or equivalent in each currency.
damn

>>544991545
it depends on how seriously you take it
if you're going to spend 5 years making retarded unwanted aspergers passion project hyperniche fantasy art slop then you may as well give up and send yourself to the ukranian frontlines
but if you're willing to do market research, study game design, and formulate an effective advertisement strategy to ensure your game is promoted towards and designed for a viable and verified target audience then you'll at least have a reasonable shot at making enough money to fund development for a few more games
success is never guaranteed in this industry
never ever ever

>>544985762
>>544994228

I didn't even see jusha post. is it an enemy or a shop?

>>544985762
KINOOOOO

>>544982303
none of those 256fes models are ever gonna be used in a game because the twitter """artists"""" posting this shit are too subhumanized to make a game.

>>544991025
To most people their time and attention is more valuable than money, they are likely to buy games and not play them.

>>544984609
You're talking to unironic paid shills. Join the rat race so their kike master can buy a tenth superyacht.

38% of people who purchased and launched cruelty squad on Steam have completed the first mission available after the tutorial
38%
people don't play video games
they purchase products they see in advertisements
they do not play video games
imagine a hoarder

>>544992385
>good marketing targets your audience. speaks to their heart, shows them fun things you can do in the game often
>good marketing is good marketing
kys retard

>>544995201
I don't have time to play games. I launch a shooter I played million times before for 30 minutes and that's all the time I can spare.

How can i make skin textures like in korean/chinese mmos ff7remake stellar blade that gives it a slight anime look? all tutorials are either full anime full cartoon or super realistic with pores and everything.

>>544995558
Just imitate magazine covers, with airbrushed women on them.

Fatfuck gabencunt is responsible for this.

>>544992547
Never mind. It was a shit video

>>544995512
extra greentext was real in your head only.
ignore my excellent advice at your peril
yeah right, you are a nodev

>>544995924
does your game look like it would make a million dollars?

>random video with personal rants that ends suddenly without discussing anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVnCCPYsYk
Is our bearchad losing it?

>>544995727
shadow-drop a multiplayer game
might be one of the dumbest moves I've seen an aggydagger do.

>>544992709
Yeah, looks like generic cozyslop

>>544996009
>extra greentext was real in your head only.
>ignore my excellent advice at your peril
>yeah right, you are a nodev

>>544996269
it has a lot of wishlists... he's gotta hold on to his cuffs... lest they are busted.

>>544994228
>>544994452
it's just a cute npc, not a boss

>>544994512
THANKSSSS

>>544991545
Drop out of what? College? Or your job?
There's a window of opportunity where companies are willing to hire anyone under 26 (assuming they got the good goy diploma) on the assumption that they can train them to be a good fit for the company. If you drop out of college and just do your own stuff and fail, you might miss that and getting jobs will be incredibly harder afterwards. Meanwhile having some years of experience on your resume before quitting your job, would make you an easier hire later.

But if you think you can handle it, go ahead I guess, #yolo. Gabe also dropped out of college to work at Microsoft.

>>544996663
>Gabe also dropped out of college to work at Microsoft.
He was hired, and then stopped going to college.

>>544996645
I'm hungry

>>544992968
The comments in this video are downright macabre. So many brainless drones, holy shit.

I should get into game dev.
Maybe that'll give my neet ass something to do and be less depressed.

For me? It's Thomas Brush's Twisted Tower.

i cant share progress because my detractors will crab on me

>>544997212
what are your strengths? skills?

>>544997386
same. not just crab, dox and call my publisher. all because my game looks like it would make 1 million dollars.

>>544997302
Is that a metaphor for penis?

>>544997386
>>544997492
>crab frightened
ngmi

>>544997387
Rotting, and of course, stereotypically, I'm an ideas guy.

I think it'd be fun though, make a little top down action game for myself to build experience.

>>544997669
I don't want a hugbox, I just don't want the dox. I'm easily doxxable because I won some awards.

>>544992968
Oh so they finally admot that I was right the whole time. You just know the steam fanboys will suddenly bend like a fiddle and say it was wrong all along while moments before this vid appeared they'd be staunchly arguing that I'm wrong and Gabe is never ever wrong unless of course he admits it.

I am looking for a game developer, are there any game developers in here?
All I see is money grubbing grifters and schizos.

>>544997212
Gamedev is one of the hardest things a human being could possibly accomplish. You're in no state to attempt it.

>>544998979
Imma try anyway.

>>544998938
I am enginedev

>>544998938
I'm a game developer who needs to make money to live on.

My game is going to get delisted from steam in 2-3 months.

>>544999413
Why?

>>544998938
>cant progress post
>making progress
>put your pants back on, loser.

>>544998539
Anon, Steamies are the most subhuman, soulless drones on the planet. They don't think at all.
Don't try to rationalize their behaviour ever. Just treat them the way you treat insects.

Vidrel guy is unironically more sapient than the average steamie.

>>544999279
You can survive on meager earnings. If you're making a balatro survivors idle like game or anything of the such you don't "need money", you WANT wealth.

How to sell game without steam?
Burn it to CD and mail it out to people?

>>544999437
I got fucked over.

>>544999413
Do an asset swap and put it back up there.
Maybe you're lucky and it'll sell better.

>>544999623
>You can survive on meager earnings.
I need around $35k a year after taxes where I live. And merely surviving in life isn't good enough, what kind of a life is that? What if I want to start a family or help my parents?

>>544999782
>Maybe you're lucky
Given my prior track record I'm the unluckiest man on earth.

>>544999951
Or gamedev can be my job.

>>544999658
who has a cd drive in 2025? sell the game on your website.

>>545000257
>sell the game on your website.
Yeah but with what kinda infrastructure?
Do I give the user a unique download link? Or work with a key to activate the game? I don't know how any of that works and how secure it is or how to deal with payments.

>>544999856
imagine unironically raising a family with gamedev.
even if you make a successful game, that is no guarantee that the next will do well, or the one after that, and so on
at least aaa gamedevs move into non-game jobs when they want stability. indies have no such luxury.

coding is hard, if you cant vibe code something, you're stuck

>>545001161
You just need one (1) big hit like minecraft and all is good.

>>545001506
Then your wife just divorces you and takes half your fortune. For women to value you, you need to be a breadwinner not a bread haver

https://vocaroo.com/1gNFD4OxHVM0

made a soundtrack for my game

>>544992547
>Eastshade guy, Thomas Brush, Cuckbust
>devs that all got lucky during indie goldrush
Mark my words, all their games will flop in this new era. It doesn't matter if they have 100k+ wishlists

>>545001059
it's over. there's no way to find out that stuff

>>545001161
to raise a family you need either fuck-you-money or to be employable no matter what.
I think that $2M in the bank would be fuck you money for me by living off of investments. anything less than that and I'd still have a day job most of the time.

>just make games for yourself bro! don't get in gamedev for money and fame!
Only a nodev would say this. The people getting into gamedev exclusively for money/fame are only a small portion of indie devs. The majority are indeed enthusiasts who genuinely want to make games. But at some point, you have to go up a notch with your games' depth, complexity and fidelity as you get more proficient. And this increased complexity and depth requires more effort, so it's only natural to want more recognition for more effort put in, let alone money. Given that the modern indie market doesn't give you either, unless you quite literally invest an entire monthly salary into marketing just to get noticed (note that I said noticed, not even succeed and make money), it's no wonder why so many people are disappointed and blame Steam, as the market is obviously rigged towards those with shitloads of money and connections, something not every indie dev will have.
Playing a rigged game is retarded. Playing a rigged game where you have to invest x1000 more effort for minimal output is even more retarded. End of story.

>>545002068
the new era is mostly the same as the old era. they got lucky so they'll need to get lucky again or their games will flop as small indie games do by default.

>>545001161
devs in that situation rely on investors for funding, become triple-A studios, hire consultants, and/or enter the mobile market
they treat it like a real business, not gambling on their passion projects doing well
if you have investors and your game fails, you just get a normal job after, the money isn't your problem

>>545002410
Usually it's NEET losers leeching off their parents. They never have to worry about rent, groceries or bills. They spend years “working” on endless passion projects, forever tinkering but never finishing their half-baked game prototypes. No roadmap, no deadlines, no real plan. Just perpetual hobbydevving dressed up as ambition, fueled by free meals and zero responsibility.

>>544998539
it feels extremely vindicating to hear people finally admit this

wanting fame seems bizarre to me. I want the opposite. my game could be famous, but not me.

>545002757
Lowest IQ post in this thread yet.

>>545002674
trvth

https://youtu.be/x_fajUuIHF0?t=460
>one billion dollars spent on marketing for monopoly go
how can we compete?

It's so odd. I feel like I'm doing really good progress very quickly and have gotten extremely far with my game but at the same time I feel like I'm years away from being finished. I guess code and systems are just quick as hell to do and actually making assets will be what takes me years

>>545003186
that's a lot of grannies...

>>545003186
This was already posted here.

>>545002068
Guys I think... If you have 100k wishlists, just don't fumble the ball through the sheer hubris of releasing your game for $20, with 10 mins of content and a level editor in the hopes that your community will just make content for you, and also release day1 DLC and a plushy.

Brush, a humble Christian man, would never make such a mistake. His game might just suck I dunno it doesn't interest me.

I dunno who the other guy is.

grindslop for games with themes that appeal to autists
gambleslop for games with themes that appeal to normies
>>545003532
the post didn't highlight that point

>>545002817
What makes you feel that way?

>>545003186
By making a better game.

Why don't indie devs make actually unique and experimental games instead of just another FPS, just another pixel platformer, just another cozy womanbait game, just another jrpg? Some of the most successful indie games like Devil Daggers, Rain World, Cruelty squad, Hylics, are so because they do things no other game does or has a unique style and setting

>cruelty squad
>unique

>>544992767
same

>>545004094
>just be smarter bro
it's too difficult

If Steme doesn't have a visibility problem, explain why are they doing this.

>>545004094
Originality is overrated.

>>545004218
revenueslop

>>545004257
Buy unoriginal indie games fail because they're just the same as AAA but without the quality and polish of AAA

>>545004330
Original indie games that are unpolished and low quality can also fail even if they are original.

>>545002410
>Only a nodev would say this. The people getting into gamedev exclusively for money/fame are only a small portion of indie devs. The majority are indeed enthusiasts who genuinely want to make games.
I don't think so. Enthusiasts don't need to be told to be enthusiasts. It's the brownoid thirdies and retarded redditor kids who need to be told that gamedev isn't a get rich quick scheme and if you are gonna make it you basically need to be an enthusiast. And you can't be an enthusiast while you're obsessed with making money.

>le rigged game
retard

All those words and not a single coherent thought in them.

>>545004720
>>545004720
>brownoid thirdies and retarded redditor kids
they will fail

six seven

I wonder if "nutritionists" are AI doomposting on their forums like we do on ours.
it identified everything correctly and estimated the quantities accurately.

>>544984631
>unc
your zoomer gf with daddy issues secretly fantasizes about feeling fully stuffed by my thicc unc shaft, zoomer.

my taste in video games is very
...
weird...

>>545005579
What do you like?

>>545005665
RPGs with absurdly long highly repetitive grinds or team-based pvp games with large playerbases

>>544983370
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNK8Y3oZuI

When my game makes it I'll finally get a girlfriend and lose my virginity. I'll finally feel like I deserve to exist and stop hating myself

>>544993607
Kino game, sovlful art.

>>545005732
Maple story had absurdly high grinding back in the day. Like "collect 1000 of those items" and it had like a drop chance of like 10% in a certain area.

>>545006191
Same...

>>545004257
you need to make games for more specific niches that big studios can't cater to. but the niches need to be big enough otherwise you won't be able to make any kind of living from gamedev. it's a delicate balance

>>545006191
you know she's been putting out for undeserving guys since middle school. why should (You) have to do anything to deserve her?

>>545006191
>I can't wait to betabuxx for a single mom in my forties just like my multi millionaire idol Tarn Adams

>>545006191
lol

>>545006191
Before I get a girlfriend, I will fuck so many MILF hookers first. Just to get it out of my system.

>>545006191
>I'll finally feel like I deserve to exist and stop hating myself
You do deserve to exist
You are worthy of love
You don't need to make a game to prove any of that.

>>545006968
>>545006984
I'm not retarded. I hate women and don't trust them so I won't let anyone close for reasons like that and I won't pay for their shit

>>545006984
speaking of

>>545007539
Thank you. But I am still alone and unloved and have been for my entire life, it's not fun.

>>545007614
tbqhwyf

>>544998539
Nah they just think they'll be the different one and they won't get fucked by valve's algorithm changes.

>>545007230
Can recommend. Kneeding and sucking some bra size h knockers of a 40 something year old milf is so good.

>>545007895
>>545007901
alright

>>545007785
Kek this 100%

>>545007572
dwarf fortress was free pre-steam. their income was 100 percent donations.

>>545003186
>all the fuckwits in the comments saying its okay because they use wishlists as a sale reminder
great, retard, but valve uses it to gauge visibility at launch so you aren't using it the way they want, and indies aren't using it the way valve wants either
maybe instead of fucking coming up with a new page to funnel users to so you can show them megabonk some more, how about starting with a system that isnt dogshit for everyone

>>545007671
I know. But making a game won't change that.

If you want to fix your life, get a job, if you have a job get a better job, stop being a loser, learn social skills and body language from books if necessary and attend social events and groups IRL instead of spending 18 hours a day on the internet. There's no "I released my game and I got isekai'd into my dream life" moment, it's gradual improvement one day at a time.

Lets say you make your game and you're mega successful and suddenly have wealth and fame, you'll discover ways of suffering that you didn't even know were possible. You think some cosplaying girl is going to tiptoe up to you at a convention and ask to be your gf? You think she's just going to love you because you made a game? Best case scenario is she's a golddigger, worst case scenario she's a content creator trying to manufacture drama and increase her own audience by accusing a high profile gamedev of sexual harassment. The world of wealth and fame is a pvp enabled battlezone and someone who struggles to play the game on normal mode is going to get slaughtered.

Please do the needful /agdg/ and make some coomer games

>>545008493
here's the game:
>open browser
>click google
>type in boob
>get 50 billion results
congratulations you won.

>>544984737
now just to vibe code some players and vibe code some revenue

>>544984737
mogged by two worlds 1

>>544985762
he is not grabbing anything
he will continue being hungry and continue trying to satiate his hunger forever
why would you create a world with so much pain in it

>>545008493
No to full coomer games but your game should have at least one sexy hag minimum

>>544992968
Valve thinks the problem with visibility is megabonk isn't on the front page enough.

>>545008739
>"Hello ChatGPT! I just released my game on Steam. Can you buy it to support me? Here is a link!"
>suddenly get 5000 sales
Its that easy

>>544997302
>meh cookie-cutter shooting mechanics
>meh story
I really hope Thomas doesn't think of this as more than just a hobby project. He doesn't actually think it's gonna be really successful, right?

>>545008493
Only if I learn how to make art of this quality.

Who's the cutest bocchisissy in the thread

>>545009034
I believe most players got what they want out of it from the demo. I doubt they'll return when it's released.

>>545008493
>>545008868
>>545008906
>>545009056
I look like this

>>545009104
Me.

>>545009684
Cute! I bet you shave you legs and wear a cage

>>544992968
>top comment
I know its bad to have visceral contempt for your potential customers but man, they make it so easy.

We basically have to charge less than the price of a bigmac meal because nobody has any fucking money, there's too many games coming out, buying just one of the dozens of AAA games that release each month is going to occupy most people's disposable income, and if you do try to charge more there's always going to be some chinks willing to undercut you while ordering their bugmen fans to coordinate their buying habits to game the Steam algo to put their stupid duck tarkov game on the front page.

And then on top of that these entitled pricks are like "maybe the price of a bigmac meal is too rich for my blood... wake me up when its 50% off, I can just about manage the price of a starbucks coffee" - honestly fuck these people.

>>545009989
hobby

>>545009989
I want steampigs to stop giving their opinion on how the store works.
>um stop trying to get me to wishlist lol I just click every button I see
Fucking valve wants us to do this. Yeah a calendar is going to fucking work wonders with a userbase that can't read.

>>545009989
I think it's entirely fair to charge less than a big mac meal for a personal revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to access a digital game.

>>545009989
You haven't seen nothing. Scroll down further and even Hitler and Putin will have to tell you to slow down your genocidal urges after reading the average steamie drivel.

>>545009989
this is why F2P is the future, unironically. There's no wishlist friction, you just download the game if it looks interesting.

gamedev

>>545010323
>this is why F2P is the future, unironically
steamie subhumans will still demand AAA tier games with 100 of hours of fully animated and voice acted cutscenes and gameplay for free.

>>>544950062
>>>544955607
which one of you progress goblins put my model screenshot into an ai

Thanks for the recommendations, valve! I really like gacha dogshit you retards, and you can tell because I've played a lot of games in the "free to play" genre (TF2)! Great work valve, your new calendar is going to work wonders! Don't actually fix what's wrong, add a new bandaid!

>>545010643
most steam reviews are completely useless, the negative ones are excessively spoiled nitpicking and whining, and the positive ones are unintelligible memes
what matters most is probably retention, which can be measured with player achievement completion rates
if a game is good, people will complete it

multi-billion dollar company btw

they're complaining about the revenue algorithm
nobody enjoys this system

>>545011002
Without context there is nothing wrong with this picture.

>>545011021
gabe and the company he buys yachts from does
more friendslop = more sales

H O B B Y

>>545011065
>the company he buys yachts from
>he doesn't know

turns out the game I was remaking is shit, I just played the orginal, in my memory it was cool but it's shit

plus "bugs" I was getting while trying to remake it are in the orignal game

>>545011212
>decides to make x
>first thing he does isn't looking at x
Why are some people like this?

>>545011202
It'd be fine if steam's algorithm actually worked. Does valve even use their own store? There's like 300 links on the front page. Here's to another that won't be used.

>>545011090
based

performing a satisfying action to acquire a resource that is valuable within a meaningful context

>>545011202
15k-20k games
But that's irrelevant when 99% are absolutely slop and 0.8% are mediocre and that leaves actually a lot of room for your game.
At least, you are making a game, right? A good game, right?

>>545009989
THEY
HATE
US

>>545011090
I like how redditors forget all those teenagers with CSGO gambling addiction

>>545011038
probably should've included another review in there but there are reviews as recent as october 30th this year on the game i screenshotted. it's a common problem that the "most recent" tab doesn't actually sort reviews by date. why? fucking god only knows.

>>545011212
Your remake can be an improved version of the original

>>545011527
if the core game is boring, there is no improving it

>>545011542
plywood age -> cardboard age -> sawdust age

i think steam just needs to improve the search feature to make it easier to find games based on:
- release date range
- review count range
- review score/positive % range
- price range
- genre/tags
that's it
make it easier to view a list of games based on these metrics and you'll the process of discovering games on steam will improve tenfold

>>545011542
Steam direct was the start of the end when valve realized they can't moderate all the games released so they'll just come up with microsystems to do it for them, to zero avail.
Every time they add something it gets exploited until valve kills it off. They just did it with steam events and next fest. This will be next.

>>545011392
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/10/23/the-counter-strike-2-skins-market-crash-explained/

why is everything reliant upon fuckass blackbox algorithms these days

>>545011542
What's your point? Are you acting as if things aren't worse off in 2025 like they were in 2016?

>>545011814
Because targeted advertising turned out quite profitable.

>>545012071
>targeted advertising turned out quite profitable
so profitable that valve is now desperately trying to revitalise their store so people would start buying more games

>>545004094
Devil Daggers is another FPS
Rain World is another Platformer
Cruelty squad is another FPS
Hylics is another RPG

the irony of your post

>>545012305
By implementing a different type of targeted advertising

hmmm

Spent like 14 hours on these stupid bottom tabs, please tell me they look better

>>545012332
It's a bot, anon.

>>545012546
where you masturbating for 13 of those hours?

>>545012546
I don't know what they looked like before but they look good enough and they won't make or break your game.

>>545012670
living room

>>545012332
They have unique things that make them stand out among other games in their genre retard. Most indie games that release have nothing new whatsoever

>>545012739
Based.

thread word count

money: 26
dollar: 6
rich: 3
income: 2
sell: 5
buy: 12
purchase: 2
$: 6
job: 12
success: 7
hire: 6
market: 20

once you understand this threads obsession with money, you understand why it's so bad. there's a lot of desperate broke people in here who cannot stop thinking about money. their whole mindset revolves around making that one perfect selling game. they have no identity, they have no interests, no goals, no preferences, all they want is making that one best-selling game.

they are like musicians who are willing to do any genre, any lyrics, any style, any accent, in any language, about any mood. they are basically 100% completed sell-outs.

the irony is: it doesn't work like that :D

>>545012826
cope

>>545012826
most of your favorite games were made by salaried employees who wouldn't have worked without getting paid.

>>545012707
Before

>>545009989
STEAMSWINES

honestly as much as I want to shit on the steamies in the comments, theyre using the wishlist as a wishlist, every store uses wishlists to notify when things are on steam, valve just think it means "preorder"
theyre closer to realizing whats wrong than valve is at least

>>545012971
Vibe coded?

>>545013078
No, why?

>>545012971
that looked so bad before

>>545013048
on sale*

>>545012971
yeah new ones are better for differentiation. stop fiddling with them.

>>545010387
them cylinders are making me gushy
that boy knows what he's doing posing like that uhhhh

>>545008663
yeah, about that...

yesdev fuel recipe:
chicken, broth, cabbage, carrots, leek, celeriac, parsley

>>545012957
This is something that the average /v/tard and /agdg/tard don't want to think about.

>>545006191
I don't think you'll get a girlfriend, or lose your virginity, but as long as nothing kills you, you are worthy to exist.

>your game is a mega hit
what are the retards in the /vg/ thread of your game talking about?

>>545013650
trannies and anime

>>545009239
Yeah that makes a lot of sense.
I tried the demo and can't see how the rest of the game could provide me with something substantially more interesting.
When I hear Bioshock, I imagine big daddies, little sisters, adam, cool ass underwater city, the hand superpowers, great story, superb atmosphere and lore, etc.
With twisted towers, there's not really any great concepts like that, and the stuff that it does have is... welp... extremely mild and forgettable. The gameplay isn't really catchy in any way to make you keep coming back to it, the atmosphere and set pieces are fine but nothing to write home about, the lore and story seems real basic.
I wonder how many reviews will it get, how will it do.

>>545013650
probably digging up pictures of me posting my cock with my face in it on /soc/ that's archived years ago, you can lookup faces on pimeyes, it finds it

>>545013650
The lore of the world locations and fighting over their favorite characters.

what's the formula to make a game people love playing?
people love playing their favorite genre.
therefore it has to be a game the settles on a genre.
people love playing the best in the genre, if it's replayable.
is your game the best in the genre?
people love playing new games, if their genre is not replayable.
is your genre not replayable?
people love playing a game where the dev knows how the genre works.
do you know how your genre works?

>>545013719
my question is, why is does the protag's wife call him "Tiny" in the letter at the start of the demo?

>>545012957
>>545013628
I simply don't give a shit. You all money hungry whores are complete fucking irrelevant. Either you produce something of interest and value to other humans or shut the fuck up and wageslave, you braindead piece of shit.
You and your entire worthless famliy could die today and nothing will change tomorrow. Things will only change for the better because people WORK. The world doesn't give a shit. Shut up, idiots.

>>545014064
this

>>545014064
>>545014138
Samefagging niggerfag

>>545013474
You didn't say what to actually do with them, do I just bite out of the leek or what?

>>545013224
>just make a porn game so your customers don't have to age verify
Confirming my biases that coomdevs are pedos again.

Also I'm in the UK, I already live under the guiding hand of a managerial state that seeks to liberate its citizens from oppression buy locking them into a technocratic panopticon of mass surveillance

Mullvad is a pretty good vpn btw, they don't even require an email address.

>>545014254
>that seeks to liberate its citizens from oppression
this is not true

>>545014218
ah shit you got me

>>545014254
the reply chain seems to suggest they're a porn game player though, not a dev

>>544981938 (OP)
Since I started my game in 2021 and resumed it in 2024, there is a lot of missing code, rewritten code, and a lot of dead code.

>>545014525
ngmi

>>545014254
I'm nta and I just want to say that "write boob, get billion tits" soon will be a relict of the past. Boob market will explode again, better buy stocks while low.

>>545013650
they would be extremely angry at how retarded it is

>>545014064
uh oh fygoon meltie incoming
woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

build build build

>>545014353
You don't understand how these people think. Early liberals viewed the state as a source of oppression, these late stage liberals view the state as a mediating force that ameliorates the individuals oppressing each other. That's why they make hate speech laws, and send the police to arrest you for making a tranny joke or questioning mass immigration on twitter.

They genuinely do not view what they do as oppression, even if the UK ends up arresting more people for speech-related crimes every year than China does, with a much smaller population.

It's fine, the liberal paradigm is ending, they will be out of power within the decade and we will finally be able to deport all the browns.

>>545014651
This is like saying buy CS2 knives now before Valve torpedo the market. If you know in the future that booba are going to be regulated off the internet, then why would you make games about booba? Especially while the market is currently flooded with booba? There's no win to be had there, make a game without booba.

>>545014064
>I simply don't give a shit.
in other words no arguments. you got raped.

>>545015114
>you got raped

>>545015060
I mean, scavenge the internet and save as much as you can, when the blackout comes you'll be like slaves on a plantation. Unless, of course, you'll give up your anonymity to the government that will see what fetishes work for you the most.

>>545015295
I have a wife so I already have boobs at home.

still waiting for a rapelay remake

weapons are fun

>>545015396
They'll sag eventually, better have a reasonable backup

>>545015060
>It's fine, the liberal paradigm is ending, they will be out of power within the decade and we will finally be able to deport all the browns.
God I hope, because if not then agenda 2030 will rape us more than a black plague

https://x.com/ChamyaouLikeCat/status/1984720088314925288
this is the type of shit indies shadow drop on steam and then complain about flopping

>>545015502
Why? Rapelay sucked.

>>545015738
this is the kind of dogshit valve promotes heavily because it's in the "indie" tag or something and gets a bunch of post ironic reviews

OH boy I can't wait for more absolute idiots to be able to produce incompetent video games using tools they don't understand to implement patternts they haven't internalized
>>545015060
>cs lewis
Lol dude is such a headass. To be fair I was raised on his work, it's at least better than Harry Potter

>>544994378
>retarded unwanted aspergers passion project hyperniche fantasy art slop
Isn't this a relatively succesful genre? A lot of subpar quality games that have unique elements seem to do well

>>545015060
>baron
>takes 10% of peasants income to hire soldiers to kill eveildoers and invaders

>statesmen: invites mudflood niggers to compete with you while you pay 60% tax and 50% inheritance tax for life with zero benefits

hmmmm

>>545015753
remaster

>>544983429
Learning ability (IQ) ⊆ talent.

"Building a Fulfilling Creative Career as a Solo Indie Developer | Matt Hackett"

>look at this steam page
>0 games released

man i'll never understand the confidence those people have. i tried making several games and my only advice is: you ngmi, dev for fun if you want but don't expect to get anywhere.

learn storytelling

>>545016432
There once was a girl named Regina...

>>545016432
Ok but how

>>545016601
figure it out

>>545016561
fuck you

>>545016601
Read books that you can finish

>>545016561
... I asked to see her bajeena

>>545016432
>>545016601
>>545016770

Damn...hope the homeless toon souls guy doesn't kill himself after this

>>545016601
>>545016770
Short story collections are great for beginners. Just find something vaguely intriguing and short and brute force it if you have to

>>545016890
Who would take care of his mother? Are you ready to step up?

>>545016770
>>545016904
Ok I'll try that.

>>545016817
>>545016890
Lmao

>>545016884
>t. functionally illiterate ai-tard

>>545017170
>>545016884

>>545017319
>>545017170

recursion

>>545016890
his games mog agdg games to the shadow realm and yet he didn't hit 100 reviews yet

i wish i could upload my brain and have 50 me-ai's browsing the web and youtube all day and then giving me a feed of content to watch that they found interesting. it's becoming a full-time job to scavenge the internet for content.

>>545016601
Use your imagination

>>545017662
>scavenge the internet for content.
Please stop doing that. Go outside

>>545017413
>>545016884

>>545016890
Post it
The train

>>545017662
i used to have a similar desire in hopes of gaining a stronger understanding of what sort of game i could design that would be most compatible with an aggressive advertisement campaign but i ultimately came to the conclusion that a game rooted in my personal passion and optimized for a general audience would be much more effective
only corporations can work with data on that scale, individual devs and small teams need to rely on passion, skill, and common sense

there are voices in my head that prevent me from deving. they ridicule me, they tell me i'm ngmi, they are very rational and can explain in detail why i'm ngmi, i even agree with those voices, they also suggest that if i keep deving i'll become homeless, so i even have fear of deving.
the fucked up part is: they want me to do something else, yet all those voices do is make me fucking depressed so i end up spending my days like a vegetable.

reminds me of: "if you sacrifice freedom for security, you lose both"

i mean, if those voices would lead me to something good, i'd appreciate the voices. but if they just lead me to rotting away, then what's the point? i could also rot away while deving.

actually the same voices tell me to not get a wagie job cause waging will also make me unhappy. basically they tell me to do nothing at all unless i found something that promises me a paradise.

>>545018427
ignore them
or partake in a sacramental life adhering to the conventions of the Catholic church
unironically

>>545018427
take your meds, schizoid.

>>545018427
I have voices in my head too but I put them in a headlock and call them silly billies then we all go to the bar to get drinks

>>545018427
You don't have a game tho you aren't really devving

>>545018946
Silence tormentor

>>545017697
I am

>>545019039
...who are you talking to, anon?

>>545019359
To you anon o_O

Anybody remember what happened to Mongoldev? He was doing solid progress, wrote he's going to his doctor and then radio silence. Did. did they get him? Is he institutionalized right now? If so then who deleted his twitter account?

>>545019616
psych eval forced him into therapy

IOH HOE LEEE SHIT
NO WAAAAY

>>545019473
dude stop talking to yourself you're scaring away the hoes

>>545019794
>agdg
>hoes
"transexuals" don't count

>>545019842
Of course there are no hoes anon scared them all away

Nobody played my game on steme...

>>545019928
The freakiest hoes don't get scared

>>545019992
drop the price to 1 dollar

>>545019992
heroes for hire?

>>545019992
Hyper Coven?

>>545018427
do you hear actual voices like schizophrenia or are they just intrusive thoughts? i had "voices" in my head since childhood constantly telling me I'm worthless and fat and stupid and everything other bad thing possible but I think it's not schizophrenia and more like OCD. I felt like I had to constantly refute them and repeat actions or phrases in my head until I felt like I had somehow warded them off or else it would become true. miserable but I managed to make it stop as i got older

where are da loligaems?

for the first time in my life i don't have a single friend. like i have 0 social connections to anybody. it feels like it was always meant to be. like, i was just constantly trying to make friendships and relationships work. now it's the first time i'm fully myself and talk my mind. and somehow it's the first time i don't have a single friend.
maybe that's what was holding me back. constantly trying to fit in and therefore being in conflict with who i truly am. therefore being in conflict with e.g. stuff like gamedev.
my whole youth was teachers telling me to not get into webdev cause it's not a real job (around 2005), also my parents telling me that webdev isn't a real job. my whole life i was constantly criticized for my interests.
it's a fucking miserable existence when everybody close to you just constantly tries to change you and criticizes you for having the wrong goals. and then those same people constantly complain about their lifes.
maybe i need to be more careful who to bond with. and i shouldn't put my social needs over my self-love.

HOLY FUCK

SHUT THE FUCK UP

NO ONE CARES LOSERS

Are there no more RPG Maker dev threads?

>>545020932
cool blogpost retard

>>545020932
Gamedev?

>>545020986
i care

>>545020932
welcome to my life, rookie.

>>545020908
In prison getting raped by tyrone

>>545018427
>actually the same voices tell me to not get a wagie job cause waging will also make me unhappy. basically they tell me to do nothing at all
this is too relatable, how do we fix it, sisters?

>>545021058
thats great, why dont you take all these failures under your wing and guide them.
somewhere else.

>>545020175
No

>>545020327
No

>>545021128
it isnt up to me to fic this retarded system rich subhumans have forced everyone into

>>545020932
Asked+care

>>545019992
Upload videos on youtube or tiktok with titles like
>8 years old who made a AAA game at home
Add some basedface in the thumbnail too

>>545017504
>let's make a game like cuphead, but worse
Why wouldn't I rather just play cuphead instead if I feel like playing something like that?

why does godot have a AAA tier terrain plugin with actually good texture blending and good tools, yet unity and unreal doesn't?

as I think about my life situation I think is kind of unfair I get no compensation for gamedev

Researchers and scientists do get paid for their research, why gamedevs are shunned by society? we do hard technical work

>>545020986
agdg is my therapy group

>>545021425
cause research has a good reputation. you can be nasa and waste trillions of dollars and people are like "but space important" and it werks.
when it comes to art, people hate artists of any kind.

I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU STUPID BITCH I'M GONNA FUCKING RAPE YOU STUPID BITCH YOU WILL FUCKING DIE STUPID BITCH DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND STUPID BITCH???

>>545016890
Is this meant to be ironic?
I already explained in the last thread how good games don't fail. But steams definition of good is "will this sell a lot." They're highly correlated.
Steam wants money. AAA don't come out fast enough densely, AA aren't good enough.
If you're below 10k wishlists give up.

>>545021524
sad fucking reality
sad fucking world

>>545021606
>Is this meant to be ironic?
>I already explained in the last thread how good games don't fail. But steams definition of good is "will this sell a lot." They're highly correlated.
>Steam wants money. AAA don't come out fast enough densely, AA aren't good enough.
>If you're below 10k wishlists give up.

>>545021606
We're so close to you almost understanding! Just a couple more youtube videos to break you out of gabe's rapehole!

>>545021524
>I made you happy didnt I ?
>I fucking hate you

>>545021806
Fatfuck gabencunt is an indian deity, respect his culture, insolent chud!!!

>>545021334
use warcraft world editor

In the future gamedev will be seen as a noble and honorable profession

>>545020932
>>545018427
>>545018136
>>>/soc/
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/trash/

>>545021323
ok but (You)r game if it even exists is most likely also something like X but worse.

gamedev is a career opportunity. you can have a mindset of being thankful for having that opportunity. people 100 years ago didn't have that opportunity.
but as all opportunities, nothing is promised, it's just a chance given to you.

>>545022219
there will be no professions like gamedev in the future. we're in the last days of it.

>>545022316
Yes but it's not straight up just the other thing BUT worse. If that's almost exactly what the game is, why wouldn't people just play the original? I don't get that...

business

>>545022436
it should be standardized somehow, like you are a gamedev, here's some grarnts for your gamedev endevour

>>545022457
gamedev is still a fast growing market. new generations growing up with technology and third world also slowly owning technology.
10 years ago that poor kid in africa wasn't playing mobile games on their phone, nowadays they do.

>>545022742
AI will take over.

>>544992968
>Those comments

>>545022790
gamedev will change, sure, but it still will be gamedev

>>545022790
Read Schopenhauer

my goal is not to make money

>>545023349
Then you have succeeded. Good job! Now you are free

>>545023349
Congratulations on achieving your goal!

my goal is to make a game i personally want to play

>>545018427
You are here. You wish you'd just make game... the genie is you.

>search tag on the new steam meme addition thatll be dropped instantly when released
>half the games are early access
>search early access
>5 games, 2 arent even early access

"if you confuse your userbase and partners, you win" - art of war, gabe newell

Today I am making marketing slop for my steam demo release on the 7th. I'm hoping to have at least 3 reddit post pre-planned, and post them one day after the other.

I've always hated this format because it's suck a self-suck kind of meme, but it does numbers. It also works great my game is not amazing looking, but giving it the context of how it started, it gets a boost.

Also, what the fuck is a "press kit" and how do you make one? Is it just art and graphics from your game for press people to use?

>>545023810
took too long to transition. my attention span is 4 seconds.

I want to make a really autistic fashion system primarily for the purpose of putting cats and goblins in silly armor

any important tips to autism max?

>>545023810
>Is it just art and graphics from your game for press people to use?
yes. can have text for features etc too

>>545021334
can you explain how to use godot terrain correctly because it's kind of filtering me, specifically the texture blending, I keep getting really hideous transitions where the square grid is way too obvious

>>545023810
show both videos at the same time

>>545024054
how about... weight, heat, flexibility. chance of survival against different weapon types?

I would play this, cool pic

>>545021007
There are, keep looking.

>Blow woke up into more arc raiders
They got him lol.

>>545024196
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/3892
https://terrain3d.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

"
Reference Material

Mike J. Savage: Geometry clipmaps: simple terrain rendering with level of detail. Earlier versions of Terrain3D used Mike’s implementation. Blog and repository code released under the MIT license, clarified per email communication with Mike.

NVidia GPU Gems 2: Terrain Rendering Using GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps

GDC 2014: The Witcher 3 Clipmap Terrain and Texturing - Slides

"

>>545024229
>>545024043
hmmm, probably is better. Appreciate it anons.

>>545020986
This, get a fucking psychologist.

Well im here to get some feedback, just for visuals , the post process and lighting is not fixed, the problem is would you accept a toon with a pbr style medivial isekai game.

since i have come to conclude that medivial stylished assets are hard to come by and i need tons of it for my game

>>545021806
>I DESERVE TO BE RICH WITH MY SHITTY AI SLOP CUPHEAD CLONE!!!
Numerous devs didn't heed my advice and numerous devs flopped.
I literally give this advice for free cause I like you retards. I've been studying flops for a while now. I suffer for you people, do you think it's fun watching a 40 minute video from a youtube shitdev about his game just so I can get the exact metrics?
And devs here aren't very happy after they flop, look at how cosmic call or marmoreal or dingodev have been acting.
Let's look at Necrovale and everything they did right: lots of engagement and visibility pre-release
well priced, 10-20 dollar range, 20% release discount, first 2 hours of content are fun (next two hours are meh), professional capsule and video and demo (clicks on game page), 500+ positive reviews makes sense. It hit below the cult classic range, but is still a minor success. Though as a game it genuinely lacked enough appeal to really be better. IMO a lower price and more sales would be better because then it would look more attractive in a bundle. It could have then hit probably 1k+ sales in impulse buys. It is more money made, but it's probably not as safe. Plus you can still stack discounts with bundles, but the review velocity is very small by now, you'll only be picking up from theoretical wishlist conversions, but the thing about a bundle you'd be increasing that space.
>>545023349
If your game is good you will make money. Btw the guys that made garten of banban are fucking millionaires now.

Nevermind he's settled back into having gabe's chode lodged up his shitter.

>>545023810
It looks worse, also the top circle has soul and the bottom one is soulless

>>545022831
yeah, the kid will say
>make me a game I like
and the AI will know what kind of games the kid likes and will create it from one of the AAA quality templates.

>>545024969
someone will have to create AAA templates, that will be gamedev

I feel sorry for those out there who can't do something significant. you are really missing out on a key part of life. videogames let people pretend to do something significant.

>>545025265
around the age of 25-30 you should pivot from consooming to creating things that inspire other to create

>>545025342
no, you are too old by then, gotta start young to get the skill so you can create while you still have youthful energy and are immune to burnout.

i need to always remind myself that all my 3D games should be outdoors and without any indoor stuff. i just hate making indoor lighting work.
also there shouldn't be any sun movement and no day/night cycle.

Being convinced into thinking that you shouldn't want to make money is the most soi goycattle thing ever. Yeah, you should really leave getting rich to your betters: god's chosen people.

>>545025506
this. School totally wastes people

>>545023810
Finally leaving the aggydaggy hugbox for a brutal reality check

>>545025506
you should already be creating from age like 13, but I mean locking in to that being your primary use of time and vril, when you make that shift you already need to have a strong creative foundation from your youth.

staff, brows, lashes and body tweaks done. Rigging next

>>545025698
You guys are idiots then. Mobile gacha with skinner boxes.
>why not do that
Because that sucks too

>>545026093
>implying you could make a successful mobile skinnerbox gacha

inflated market this, gaben killed us that, indie apocalypse? my ass.
Stop fucking crying, the world adapts, it changes. If you dont adjust and overcome, you WILL drown.
god-emperor gabe could roll out an update that shoots me in the face the second i publish and id STILL make my game.
Just make a good fucking game. get back to work, NOW.

>>545025698
I mean yea, but if you want to get rich solo game dev in 2025 is not the way, you spend months or years of intensive effort making something that will probably pull in 5 figures if you're lucky, or very likely only 4 figures. You're much better off spending that time doing almost anything else if your goal is money.

>>545026359
>just get noticed by an influencer, bro
>it worked for me, bro

>>545026359
cringe, my respect for you went down by about 2-3% for making this post.

I'm already beda-tired and the hard week has yet to beda-begin.

>>545026359
post ass

>>545026359
based, you make a game because the goblin that lives in your brain commands it, if you don't have the spark of creation you're ngmi. Monetization recognition and success are cool, but you create to honor god first.

>>545026686
You'd beda get some coffee

>>545026093
>low-IQ and short sighted
Mobile games can only make money while you continue to update it and pay for advertisement.
If you make a timeless PC/Console game, the algorithms will continue to sell it for you for decades to come.

>>545026483
>if you want to get rich solo game dev in 2025 is not the way
It's not the way if you're a low-skill low-IQ retard. Go back to the warehouse where you belong. Gamedev is a meritocracy. For those of us with world class skills and IQ, gamedev is one of best ways to get rich in 2025.

Is this too many primitives?

>>545026093
gacha shit is exclusively marketing and hoping for some dumb retard with money and no brains to spend too much on your shit

>>545026574
you think these things happen on accident?
I designed the game with attracting influencers in mind
Cause why shouldnt I? You want me to publish it in a magazine? Send letters to people? hope people see it there?
you gotta adapt - there is no other way

>>545027004
>For those of us with world class skills and IQ, gamedev is one of best ways to get rich in 2025.
show your current Steam wishlists or sales graph.

>>545027004
t.retard nigga who thinks his 138 iq makes him a crazy genius lol

>>545026359
make a good fucking-game

>>545019992
What's your game anon?

don't get cocky, kid.

>>545008906
>>545009000
>>545009360
I also look like all this as I type this post

>>545027409
>you think these things happen on accident?
Yes. You could've just as easily flopped had that cattle herder not been in the mood for your game.
Unless you bribed him directly but I doubt you did that judging by the language you choose.

>>545027476
That's the same IQ bracket as Cris. Are you not smarter than Cris?

>>545027661
get cock, kid

>>545027875
when you're high iq you realize that even high iq people are retarded. There is no cut off where a human being stops being retarded. The human mind is retarded.

>>545027476
Considering that the median IQ in most Western countries is 89-90 (not even talking about the third world here), yes, that does make him a crazy genius.

>>545019616
He'll be fine. Probably. He said they were simply doing a time limit on his computer usage. Who knows why.

>>545027982
got him

>>545026359
Amen.

>>545027409
you said to make a good game and then you said you designed the game with attracting influencers in mind. if good == appealing to the kind of people who watch Pewdiepie and the like, then I guess that makes sense.

>>545028286
slave-minded cattle

Holy...

>>545012957
Correct. Disregard this romanticising faggot.

>>545028167
It really doesn't, when you filter game dev down to people who are high iq enough to actually download a game engine and make anything like a serious attempt, you're probably looking at a minimum of 115+, and 140 really isn't setting you apart from the pack at that point. Most solo devs even those making flops are probably top 1% iq.

>>545028560
now knock 70 points off for believing the results of an online iq test

>>545014064
broke nodev you have no say in any of this kekk

never have i felt my retardation more on display than when making and playtesting my game.
t. 140 IQ

>>545028740
not an online test. just that stupid iq estimator you paste text into.

>>545028804
It's brokies fixated on making money, if you're a normalfag you have plenty of cash from your normal job and you make a game because there is literally nothing more fun to spend your free time on. If you're a neet or a jeet desperately hoping for salvation by making your shitty (x) clone you're in for a life of pain.

what's the point of making a video game if you don't even play video games anymore?

>>545028865
that's because it's entirely your own fault, and that's why maybe only three posters in this entire thread have even attempted to start a game, the rest are here to shitpost and pretend for (You)s


Also to those of you who tried and failed, it's because your idea / game was shit, not steam, not the users (You) are included)

High IQ is a disadvantage as it makes a stronger beast for your soul to wrestle with

Okay, light system for the nights are almost fully functional. I just have to fiddle a little more with the light animation, and blending modes and it will be neat.
Oh and make a dozen different light-source objects to actually use it.

>>545027409
It already happened? Hah, I knew you'd make it!

>>545029257
>High IQ is a disadvantage

You don't have high IQ, you have low IQ, that's why you're a failure tranny pedo faggot

Thoughts on intentionally becoming a yanderedev esque lolcow as a marketing strategy?

>>545029001
ok knock 90 points off then.

>>545029463
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0KgYo96BpM

how to become the best selling slut on the market? should i allow them to piss and shit on me so i get more customers? did anybody do some market study if rape is a good genre? i'd definitely let them rape me if that means twice the income. we all know, the most important part about anything is to make the most money you can, not how you feel doing it.

Wake up, aggies, wake up. We about get this paper.

>>545028123
Smart people can end up with retarded opinions and incorrect priors, but generally speaking, one of the most critical talents that you need as a solo indie game developer is the ability to learn new things very quickly, since there is a shit ton of skills that you'll need to learn, and there's not enough time in your lifespan if you learn too slowly. How quickly you can learn a topic is most directly measured with IQ.

>>545028687
You'd be surprised. The barrier to entry is quite low. There also appears to be a bimodal distribution of developers who have gotten to the point of downloading an engine and trying. There are the <115IQ midwit "kenyan helicopter flopdev NGMIggers" who don't have the level of introspection necessarily to figure out they're producing worthless garbage, and thus can remain delusional enough to persist in their fruitless endeavor. In the 115-145 range or so, you'll be smart enough to figure out what a truly monumental task creating an good game that people actually want to play is. This is the range where many neverdevs rot away in. It's not really until the 145+ range where you're really able to filter out all the noise and follow a realistic path to success.

Is your game going to be fun?

IQ doesn't magically give you better art or music or coding skills, it simply means your brain is faster than lower IQ brains.

>>545029257
>bocchi's soul manifested brown hands

>>545029284
I like the time wheel in the corner, That's a nice and creative way to convey the time. The flame and light flickering is also a very nice touch, that makes the scene feel much more alive. The light looks good when it's over objects too, like the windows and the tires.

The light is a really solid circle though. Is that deliberate? It feels like a very retro pixel thing, but the other artwork seems higher quality than that. Maybe you could soften the edges a lot so it's more like it fades away rather than just sharply ending?

Otherwise congrats on being one of the few anons making progress! Wish the thread had more people like you!

>>545029831
You should kill yourself as your IQ is most certainly below 70.

>>545029921
at 3yo I was drawing 3d cubes. high visual spacial iq. it's talent, or magic if you will.