Does making a well selling indie game depend on getting picked up by algorithms like being a YouTuber, or is it about salesmanship and marketing to streamers and journos?
All of the aboveReally surreal remembering comments in 2018 saying how this video was weirdly hypnotic, now its basically the blueprint for simp content
>>732178360Who believes in algorithms - floods the steam with assetflipslop, who somehow cares about what he is going - pays streamers
>>7321783601. make a game that you can easily make GIFs out of, so it's twitter/youtube bait. the choo-choo charles approach2. make a game that's fun, fairly unique, deep, and doesn't run horribly. If it's in a genre PC players actually want to play, people will advertise it for you by word of mouththose those are the only two options that actually have any chance of working in practice
The fact you are focusing on making a well selling game, shows you are heading in the wrong direction.The actual tip to making a successful game is can that you want to play yourself that isn't already on the market and make it the most enjoyable experience you possibly can.
>>732178360>Is it random?>Or are there controllable factors and uncontrollable ones?>>732179698>that you want to play yourself The problem with this is that many solo game devs are retarded autists obsessed with some weird faggotry.That's why there's all these furry platformers etc because the dev is thinking "I really like this stuff so everyone else will too!"
>>732179698Every successful entertainment company started out thinking about the business side as well as the artistic sideArt for arts sake leads to the starving artist
>gives u free impressions :^)
>>732178360You'll get way ahead by making a game that actually feels polished and well thought out, as long as you do that you'll be way ahead of most indies even if your idea isn't super original. The amount of absolute no effort slop out there is astronomical, you can take one look at most indies and see how low effort they are, as long as you can make something that doesn't scream third worlder you can get some traction.Also it's stupid to go into it by thinking about how much money you're gonna makeAlso sex on that girl
>>732178360what was this dude called
>>732178360if you make a game good enough then it'll succeed via word of mouth, there aren't enough really really good games around even though there are lots of okay games, but the really really good games are the ones that everyone want to playu
>>732180053there aren't nearly enough furry platformers and the ones that do exist are successful. look at pseudoregalia, you don't even have to make something super polished and good in every aspect so long as the core gameplay is good
>>732178360Did this ewhore ever make an Onlyfans?One of my favorite faps are to women who try to capitalize on their 5 minutes of fame by selling their bodies online.Also waiting for women who fell off in the entertainment world to resort to Onlyfans, bitches like AdeptTheBest, Rooster Teeth girls, and other now-irrelevant foids
How do I find a programmer for my project? I've been doing all the art and design and shit but I can't do coding at all.
>>732184691Just se AI for art, why the fuck would you do art manually??? LMFAO it's 2026 itiod.
>>732184691Learn to code.That's what serious people do, and that's how you get in touch with actual programmers.
>>732178360Make sexy woman your thumbnail to appeal to normal peopleThen reveal her to be lesbian at the end to appeal to woke peopleBoom you covered two audience sides instantly
>>732184791I'm too retarded for that, which is why I am asking.
>>732184884No, you're not, anon. Specially nowadays that AI can solve everything for you. If you have absolutely no experience with coding, then you are worthless in the industry. Even if you're not going to do the coding, you have to understand the language and certain concepts, otherwise, stick to your drawings, the best you can hope for is an actual game developer buying your creations.
>>732185049>Specially nowadays that AI can solve everything for you.>AI actually cant do a single thing even after 10 yearswhy is it always the obvious do-nothing retards saying this "lulz use ai for dis" retard garbage? is it just idiot teenagers?
>>732185426Even your mom knows more about AI and its uses than you
>>732185426It's entirely possible to do game dev with AI code. I've made lots of money off AI and I'm a "do-nothing retard" as you put it.
>>732186349prove it.
>>732178360i guess i never miss huh
>>732182858Nyannyan Cosplay. He got fat.
>>732184691what type of game are you making?
>>732178360vi sitter har i venten
>>732186349>I've made lots of money off AI and I'm a "do-nothing retard" as you put it.Alright, tell me exactly how please, thanks.
>>732190460he cant because hes telling lies on 4chan of all places
>>732183934No, I wish she did
>>732179698le armchair business man
>>732195651i do that
>>732190621>>732187001You're correct.I am sort of lying. I don't develop games. I develop(ed) tools & software.
>>732196458Develop this nigga
she lost weight and has an OFbullying worked once again
>>732196528
Success is always completely up to chance no matter how hard you work or how smart you are.
>>732185426Anon, AI can help you l34rn2c0d3. All you do is watch video tutorials on a typical language (like C++ or java), try to write up a small program and then ask online/ ai if you get stuck. It's the same as learning to draw.
>>732192845I've been semi-retired since I was 28 with more money than I can spend. Every successful venture comes from a place of passion. If you go chasing trends, you're just going to get buried in with all the rest of the slop. Especially in this industry.
>>732178360It's a bit of both. Generally it's just your luck against the whimsy of the current market. Bad games become massive successes, good games disappear into nothingness, and everything inbetween.
Is hiring programmers from /agdg/ a good idea
Don't actually try to go for algorithm gaming. You don't want to be a "10 seconds of for you page" type famous where it costs you infinite dollar but you gain nothing and die
>>732180175>Every successful entertainment company started outBut there's several breakout indie titles where the dev(s) just made what they wanted to because they liked it.KenshiBalatroDwarf FortressHollow KnightFNAFStardew ValleyUndertaleMinecraftFear and HungerNorthern Journey
>>732200564Yeah and in all of those cases they made one IP and then fucked offThat's boring
>>732200659Doesn't mean they aren't succesful.Also not even true.Stardew Valley dev, notch and toby fox are making a news game just for fun despite being multimillionaires. Also why constrain it to "new IP"?Becoming big and corporate is usually what kills good games, idk what you're even trying to argue for.
