>ywn make a game that millions of people spend dozens of hours with and make big video essays about how clever and brilliant and beautiful it is>probably ywn make a game, periodWhy live? Really?
I don't give a fuck about any of that, it's gay, vain and the kind of people who make video essays about video games are losers.
>>719460687But I like attention
I’ll be the first solo dev who masters Unreal and releases the first AAA quality indie-game with a Linkin Park OST, heartless, Super Monkey Ball minigames, and a sexy furry protagonist
why are certain people cursed to have 0 willpower and struggle to do basic tasksI genuinely feel like I could have been a millionaire by 25 with the ideas I have (that then get made by someone else and makes them a millionaire) but I struggle to do laundry and wash dishes
>>719460107The closest I got is this: I translated a couple of games into my language. My translations are considered good by both players and journalists. One person (that I'm aware of) wrote a graduation work for translation studies about one of my translations.Well, that's small in comparison to what you said, but I'll just mention that I don't really feel anything about it, so if it was something 100 times bigger, not much would change.
>>719460107Kafka was a faggot. Use AI to make assets for you.
>>719460953That’s really cool.>>719460897I don’t know. Hopefully either science finds a cure or eugenics makes a comeback because nobody should have a “life” like this.
>>719461174AI still can’t really do 3D for shit, and only asocial weirdos play 2D games.
>>719461238Bro quirky depressive RPG maker games are prime video essay bait
>>719461272Idk, I just hate 2D games and don’t play them so I can’t imagine making one when to me it’s like publishing a hand written book when printers exist. It’s so antiquated.
>>719461426Black Souls, Hollow Knight, there’s a time and place for 2D
>>719460107i read that daydreaming about doing things can release the same amount of dopamine as actually doing those things for reali've released many kino and successful games in my head this way
>>719460107you know all the trite things people say like "anyone can code" or "just believe in urself"? they're all true, you just have to open your mind to the idea that you're going to make it. failure to do so will result in more bitching and moaning without even having tried.get to learning, son.
>>719460897Did you have anything fucked up happen to you in life that you never really dealt with? Unresolved issues in your mind are like random scrap getting jammed between gears; nothing works right until you remove it.
a lot of people get into the hobby for the wrong reason. game developers are not artists, they are not rock stars. successful indie developers aren't touring the world getting laid and collecting laurels, they are alienated autists with a fanbase of mentally ill losers.
>>719461690almost sadly it was pretty much all little stuff that contributed to it. I'm mostly well-adjusted now but it took a while to get here. But there was no big single event that messed me up. Dad left sure but only a handful of yelling fits between my mom and grandparents. Bullied at school but honestly only a few years cus I got tall. Teachers would treat me different cus I wouldn't do normal work but I did good on tests. Got sent to special ed but whatever, I ended up relaxing in the retard closet most days. Just a bunch of little things, nothing huge.
>>719460897Modern life is just too exhausting. Thirty or so years ago you could have a part time job at a diner and support a mortgage for a small home. Now even six figures can barely keep you afloat in most parts of the world, and said jobs tend to be very stressful. If you even get them, which most people can't, so we're stuck living in apartments with four other people sharing rent, some of which have to work multiple jobs.I'm getting mentally exhausted just coming to terms with all this, and accepting that it's not going to get any better, at least not in my lifetime. I wanted to make video games, but I need to work two jobs just to keep the lights on and I simply don't have the energy to do much of anything with my extremely limited free time without sacrificing sleep. I barely even talk to friends and family anymore because work work work work work it's all so tiring I can't wait to go to sleep and not wake up so I can be the first dev to release a game from the afterlife.
>>719461579>based truthEverything is won or lost in the mind first. Think defeatist thoughts like OP and they'll certainly come true sooner than thinking optimistically may reveal success or failure.
>>719460107Well certainly not with hat attitude.
>>719460107Well, what are you waiting for?>inb4 B-BUT B-BUTNoone who ever made a video game made excuses
>>719462551>Everything is won or lost in the mind first.baste platonist
>>719462551Okay, I'll just do what >>719461534 does then.Fuck you. You don't get to play my game.
>>719462914Okay. Its your fantasy, have at it. You'll achieve the goal of feeling good about imagined success.Note that its different from achieving the goal of developing a video game.
>>719462914>Fuck you. You don't get to play my game.NO STOP YOU HAVE TO LET ME SHIT ON YOU
>>719460107The hardest part is taking the first step
>>719463474fr thoas a fatnigger that spent years forcing himself going to the gym, the very nanosecond i put my gymshoes on, the struggle is over
>>719461534Based escapist from reality, that's what I started doing at age 11 when my parents threw away hundreds of pages of writings I had accumulated
>>719460897You have 0 willpower because you never addressed it.
>>719463474>>719463758For me it's the second step, it's easy to get excited and do the bare minimum in a light-night rush, then you wake up in the morning and dread it
>>719464024also relatable
>>719460953Glad you enoyed it while it lasted, AI took your job
>>719461174Why even make a game if you're not going to bother putting any effort? Seriously, i just used Civitai to make some porn, and despite it looking "good", i just couldn't get it up, where's the passion, might as well get an actual job if you won't bother putting any creativity in a creative endeavor
>>719460897>why are certain people cursed to have 0 willpower and struggle to do basic tasks>>719462115>special edThat's just the standard autism experience. Executive dysfunction is part and parcel with retard disease (developmental disorders) and the tiniest little bit of trauma exacerbates it like 10,000%. C'est la vie.
>>719464904It's not my job, and it didn't. Last time I translated a game was 9-10 months ago, and by the year's end I'll be doing another one.Machine translations into English may be okay sometimes, but my language is much too complicated.
>>719465584And a oui oui de fromage to you to good sir.
>>719460897Most people like that grew as spoiled kids who never had to do shit to get rewarded and have trouble dealing with failure as a result, if you're an adult the only way to fix this is too challenge yourself so you get used to failing BUT learning so you can be less of a nihilist bitch who thinks that just because he'll die someday it means he doesn't have to have any motivation or goal
>>719465658>he doesn't knowLolololol
>>719460107If you have the money, you can always hire paid shills, just like the ones here on /v/ and on youtube.
>>719460897no goals/dreams
>>719465838I didn't grow up spoiled, far from it in fact, yet I have zero ambition or dreams. I genuinely do not know what to answer to the questions "What are your dreams" or "Where do you see yourself in five years" that pop up in job interviews.
>>719465292To me the creativity is in the writing and directing, and it doesn’t matter to me if I’m directing people or bots.Anti-AI is just elitism at the end of the day. Hideo Kojima hasn’t make a 3D model in his life either, but for him it’s ok because he can pay people to do it.I can’t afford that so I pay the machine to do it. Same thing.
Try making a good thread for starters.
>>719465962Yes, (You) keep doing nothing, using "AI will replace me one day anyway" as an excuse.
>>719466586>To me the creativity is in the writing and directingYou don't happen to be a failed TV/movie writer by any chance do you?
>>719466932No, I wrote a book once though
>>719466932Considering he brought up fucking Kojima, i wouldn't be surprised
>>719467013You gave me an even better answer holy shit, thanks
>>719467013Was it your journal during highschool?
>>719460107>probably ywn make a game, periodI already did that. A few times actually. I'll do it again too, you can't stop me.What now, fag?>ywn make a game that millions of people spend dozens of hours with and make big video essays about how clever and brilliant and beautiful it isThis is true though.I'll probably just die of poverty at some point lol
>>719460897You're simply weak. Ideas are worth nothing without having the perseverance to see them through.
I just want people to draw porn of my OCs without having to commission anyone. The game with my OCs in it is just the platform for me to open the gates for that.
>>719467149No, it was an actual book, I’ve also had a decent amount of stuff published and won some minor awards.>>719467104Whatever
>>719467324This would be relatable if my dream game weren’t exclusively about animals because I hate people and don’t want to think about them.
>>719467293This, didn't one of the devs behind the original Fallout say this more or less? You see a lot of successful game "ideas guys" in the industry but most of those fags had to work their ass off to get where they are now, and even then being a good ideas guy is unironically harder than what most fags think, it's not simple "imagine Halo but medival lol" shit, you actually have to make a concise concept with actual game design and philosophy, from simple shit like menus to the actual gameplay
>>719467462There's a huge, huge difference between "idea guy" and "idea guy with money".
>>719461534that'S dangerousive been daydreaming my entire life and now i am 30 year old khv NEET who still does nothing but just mindlessly browsing the internet while imagining things in my head every single daylike another anon said, everything you think of is worthless if you are not able to actually do itanythign else is circlejerky garbage
>>719467493>everything you think of is worthlessMakes me happy in a world intentionally designed to make me depressed so it's not worthless at all.
>>719467462Yes, Timothy Cain did say that, although in a more elaborate manner. You can find the video on his YT channel.
Star small and make mods for games with good modding tools. Shit like (Literally any Doom-Engine based game), (Literally any Source Engine game), or (Any Nintendo game that's been decompiled).I make Ring Racers maps, personally. It's fun, and people like them. If you make something that sucks ass you can even full-send the joke and lean into how badly you fucked up and see how far you can push it.
>>719467703>Star smallThis is the most simple and effective tip ever, yet i have seen time and time again countless indie devs trying to make their first game their dream game who get their dreams crushed when they realize they lack the experience, budget, and staff to make it work
>>719460107I've made some pics and vids that made people chuckle :)
>>719467368>it was an actual bookEveryone that has ever written a cooking book will tell you the same hing>won some minor awardsOh,so it was a coloring book
>>719468581Being a cunt won’t make you feel better about your shitty life. It’ll just give you cancer.
>>719468581>pretending to nonchalantly make fun of others>seething inside from jealousy, knowing he will never amount to anything, when others can do something worthwhile
>>719460107But what if my game is in my video essay?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPjgVH91ckw
>>719466368Are you anxious in anyway, anon? If so, use that. Angle fear pushing you into doing things. Don't worry about anything beyond what you're doing on the day. The enemy is apathy and nothing else. If desire won't get you into motion, get angry, get sad, get frustrated. Something will.
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>>719465584I've come to realize I might genuinely be autistic but I'm not sure getting diagnosed at this age would be worth it. I think I would rather be known as a lazy miserable faggot than labeled as an autist, given all the stigma surrounding it
You end up making a game, when not busy trying to survive, spending hundreds of hours of your free time, then decide it's a good idea to release it in EA so you can get some feedback and hopefully funds to continue working on it without thinking about an hero every day, get 0 views or sales which bolsters the idea that it's shit and you're a fraud. Trying is the first step towards failure.When The Road Darkens on Steam
>>719474804You are out of your mind, bro. You know you can buy Risk of Rain 2 for less right now? If you want feedback on a game that looks like that, price is out of the question.
>>719474804Now compare that game with this.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3716600/Mage_Arena/Why did that succeed and the other fail? Both are early access multiplayer games.
>>719475363>A co-op PvP experience about using your voice to cast spellsneat gimmickactual creatures and worlds instead of shapes on top of a tiny cube in the voidlower price
>>719475190It doesn't play like risk of rain 2, and it's a new experience either way, it's more like rabbit and steel, which is more expensive.>>719475363I don't know. Likely much better marketing, good timing, voice gimmick, probably more fun with friends, price, luck?
>>719474804Every day I check every single game released on Steam in the last 24 hours. At least a quick look, more if it's something interesting to me personally.And one thing I noticed and don't understand about first games released by new devs is this: why don't you get someone to write a fucking review. Since you're a dev, you know that you need to reach 10 reviews as fast as possible, otherwise your game remains pretty much invisible on Steam.If you don't have friends who could do that for you, go around Steam and look at reviews. Sometimes you'll find people with like 500, 1000, 3000 reviews. Talk to them, give them a key, ask them to try playing and write something.I often end up buying games that I'd normally leave for later and get on a sale, because I'm sorry for the devs. There are games on Steam that have exactly 1 review, written by me, months after the release. I really don't understand. Have someone write a couple of reviews, this shouldn't be that hard.
