/v/ — How the fuck do you spend 3 years on a shit game?

Same way your mom spent 9 months too many on you.

>>741138350 (OP)
Never heard of it. Buy an ad.

>>741138350 (OP)
They just got unlucky, thats it.
Literal turds sometimes sell millions for seemingly no reason

>>741138350 (OP)
>waling simulator
>relaxing
lmao
nice "game"

>work 3 years on assets
>use anti-sovl gas to hide everything you've made
ebin

>>741138505
I saw that post, and the gameplay looks more like Panzer Dragoon

>>741138505
It's more of a game than VNs will ever be, weeb nigcel.

>what if I spend three years making a mediocre product in an over saturated market during a collapse

>>741138350 (OP)
Zero marketing.
Let the dev seethe and dilate.

>>741138468
This is the real reason. If you make a game, it should be a hobby first and foremost.

Wishlists don't guarantee sales

>>741138786
This IS the marketing you dumb fuck

>>741138561
play proper VNs then retard

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>See in the comments, hey dev i bought 10 copies for my friends

reality, these fuckers are all lying to the troon and not even playing it.

>>741138350 (OP)
I bet it's something nobody is interested in, of course the people that actually play it say it's good but most of the people that wouldn't like it aren't gonna give it a chance at all

>>741138350 (OP)
Indies come to Gaben to slit their wrists. It is what it is.

>>741139512
wtf does that second sentence mean
they took a screenshot, ran it through chat gpt, then went back to the original image and manually photoshopped what ai did? i dont understand

>Mesoké is a poetic and introspective flying game, an invitation to an inner journey through dreamlike, symbolic, and emotional worlds.
>Glide freely through ever-changing landscapes, skim close to obstacles to gain energy, and discover suspended worlds somewhere between dreams, memories, and emotions… all carried by a contemplative, sensory, and wordless experience.
Do people really put out shit like this and expect to sell a million copies? Look at all the indies that get successful. They are all GAMES with GAMEPLAY, not artsy-fartsy "poetic experiences." If you want to make something like that, fine, but don't feel entitled to commercial success.

I mean it looks nice and I'm vaguely interested in the flight system but it's not at all my kind of game.

>>741138350 (OP)
From that image alone I can tell it's shit

looked at it on steam and the promo video is shit, it just makes the game look boring as fuck
if that's all there is to it, then it doesn't surprise me that he didn't sell any copies
the advantage with these kind of indie games is that the budget is fairly low so you can be a bit more experimental and try to fill a niche that was unserviced.
if you fail, whatever, it's not that big of a loss, but if you correctly predicted a niche, you can make an assload of money with it.

what niche was he targeting though?

>>741141241
you mean read

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>>741138350 (OP)
this game isn't even pirated. even pirates have ignored it kek

>>741138406
>got fucked and was too stupid to abort
it actually is really similar

It's well passed time to stop sucking off indies. For every genuinely good indie game there is a thousand sloppy flops.

>>741139923
This is the most boring fucking image, with a title that doesn't fucking mean anything. If people see some bullshit foreign word as a game title, they will immediately gloss over it.

>>741139579
>my shit game would totally have become a hit if I were just lucky
Keep telling yourself that, retard.

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>>741142269
wrong
this game came out last week

>>741142598
for every success there's at least dozens more that will never make back their Steam fees

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>>741138350 (OP)
>Spend a few months working on a game
>Game flops
>Whine on twitter, claim it took you years to make
>12 gajillion retweets
>Game becomes successful out of pity
I'm beginning to think this is the new meta. instead of paying advertisers and getting the word out the normal way, you just have a pity party on twitter and it gets circulated for absolutely free

>>741142685
yea that's life

I love capitalism, only people who make cool shit get money

>>741143075
Wrong, you still need luck if the game is good

>>741140303
It means they fixed the hands of ai images.

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>>741143446
Or just make a game that people would actually want to buy?

>>741143856
Plenty of people like these comfy platformers or whatever you call Journey

>>741139923
>game is called 'me suck'

>>741145076
Left looks like one of those guys that Kiliu draws

>>741138350 (OP)
He is lying or he is a retard that though going full marketing as solo dev would work instead of making a good game.

Only high corpo can pay SweetBaby for paid reviews and streams.

>>741145641
Yes, and a very small fractional amount is still just a fraction. You're taking extra steps to say the same thing.

>>741145076
Saying "a fraction" is also a tautology, since both 9/10 and 90/10 are fractions just like you mentioned, so it could be any number larger or smaller than the original

>>741147082
>2026
>.gif

>>741138350 (OP)
Make tgats 88 copies. I bought myself one and 10 copies fpr the homeless people outside starbucks

>>741147043
Not games, but it's worth noting that books published under Stephen King's alter ego Richard Bachman never reached any of the sales of the books that King released under his name. You could argue that the Bachman books aren't as good, but it points to quality not the sole deciding factor for success.
>>741147131
What of it?

>>741138914
That indie game joe guy is a weird grifter

>>741139512
>the game doesn't use AI
>we used AI for store images to make tje game look better than it is
kek

>>741148862
Cope. There are many people who've become 100,000 follower giga artists that started in 2022-2023 (beginning of the AI slop era).

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>>741138350 (OP)
>What do you think?
This is one of those games where you just watch the trailer and feel like you've already seen all of it. People need a premise to give a fuck, instead of blooming some gay-ass flowers in your "palace" you should uncover a story, reveal a mystery, give people a reason to play it instead of feeling satisfied just watching a 10 second clip of your gameplay, you don't even need to change the overall vibe of the game, just give it purpose.

>>741148819
It eventually turns it into a chore. It's sad to see how many artists I follow have changed from posting sketches and simplistic art daily to posting once a month a boring patreon OC pinup.

>>741138834
>it should be a hobby first and foremost
You shouldn't drop out of your actual work to make a game, you won't, in any way, sell millions of copies out of nowhere without any advertising or going viral, that's just impossible.
You won't be the one in a million to make it.

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>>741148935
Why lie?