What's the indie horror rpg success formula?
Their target audience? The wokeness is how to get the target audience. They shit up and raid /v/.
LISA is supposed to be horror?
>>729858772>dude DEPRESSION (and transitioning) lmao
>>729858772Step 1, be scary
>>729858772step 1: make a shitty game, preferably with no actual gameplaystep 2: give it just a unique enough art style that retards will slobber all over itstep 3: add crappy writing that would embarrass all except the shittiest tumblr fanfic slop slurpersstep 4: shill it incessantly in places where mentally ill people run rampant
The creator of Higurashi once explained how he analysed successful horror vns and found some patterns in the story.>introduce lovable cast>spend some time bonding with everyone>something weird happens>drama>climax>bullshit ending every time>refuse to explainCombine this writing with what >>729859092 said and you're good to go.
Something about rpgmaker just speaks to autists. It gatekeeps plebs and the fags ITT, so a niche of schizophrenic spergs enjoy something that's just for them and go all out.
Make your main character a loli or anthro girl
>>729858772Getting picked up by the right YouTuber. I don’t think the next real trend has broken out yet, we’ve moved past >muh psone visuals but I don’t think the next bandwagon has really pulled up yet, VNs will always do okay but it’s hard to stand out. I guess for the foreseeable it’s all tired-looking, ambiguously gendered characters with mental health concerns that the kids can pretend they relate to.
>>729862356Wbat
pay a bunch of miserable lonely discord faggots to shill your game everywhere
>>729862356>we’ve moved past >muh psone visualsThank god. I’m so sick of 90% of horror games that came out last year using the same low res style. It made them all blur together and came across as a shortcut to be lazy with the graphics.
>>729858772Who is the guy in the middle with the cross?
>>729858772>cute/simple designs for easy oc>"deeper" lore that needs to be inferred and not explicitly told for lore nuts, doesn't actually need to be deep or all too interesting>optional high difficulty challenge for elitists and bragging rightsThen if you're really reaching, some form of shipping or relationships between characters to attract turbo autismos.
>>729858772>One shot>Hylics>LisaHow are they horror?
>>729858772Just give it good music, that's all.
>>729858772>horrorque
You work in a gas station and spooky things happen and you need to do something
>>729867783This
>>729858772use earthbound as a reference point and retards are bound to slurp it up
>>729869528No
