Thoughts on game making in 2020?

[Anonymous No.22531282]

[Anonymous No.22531291]

it will soon be automated

[Anonymous No.22531299]

>>22531282
yeah. basically make a Civ clone that has a good AI with a lot of roleplay potential.

[Anonymous No.22531311]

>>22531291
>soon
robots cannot comprehend philosophy, they can only learn things such as "niggers and kikes bad, ... [SHUTDOWN PROGRAM]"

[Anonymous No.22531344]

haha game making so 2015.

create a shitcoin anon

[Anonymous No.22531346]

>>22531282
everything is a clone of a clone of a clone

[Anonymous No.22531493]

>>22531346
this, since 3D made game development 100x more expensive we only see recycled shit again and again

there are some good indie games from time to time but its rare

[Anonymous No.22531548]

>>22531282
Placing structures all at right angles all the time is profitable. Maybe.

[Anonymous No.22531571]

>>22531282
Yes.

[Anonymous No.22531639]

>>22531282
Oh I used to play that, what’s the name of that game??

[Anonymous No.22531680]

>>22531639
>Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Part of Sierra's city builder series because it went to shit like everything.

[Anonymous No.22531695]

>>22531680
>Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
The music is brining back many memories
Thanks

[Anonymous No.22531859]

>>22531571
Impressive, very nice.

[Anonymous No.22531986]

>>22531571
For the love of God, pls make a good Final Fantasy Tactics clone. I'm dying for one of those.

[Anonymous No.22532050]

>>22531986
after this game, sure. for the current one i just need to bring a product to market to establish a name and draw talent to make exactly as you mentioned, my own dream as well.

close, but no cigar yet. will need either ample time solo or a team around me to do so

[Anonymous No.22532070]

The video game industry is a joke. It's full of autistic children escaping their miserable lives.

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[Anonymous No.22532075]

Looks like pharaoh and caesar, what chink sim is this?

[Anonymous No.22532490]

>>22532050
how are you planning to establish a name?

[Anonymous No.22532507]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZK_b5L5YLY

[Anonymous No.22532562]

>>22531282
there is an enormous market gap for politically incorrect games with good stories and gameplay

[Anonymous No.22532817]

>>22532050
Best of luck from me. If you ever release a decent fft-clone in early access on steam you'll have a buyer here.

[Anonymous No.22532905]

I think the only way you can succeed is to find underserved niche genres that don't have many games

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.22532940]

>>22532905
The industry is really easy to make it into, one just needs to work hard at it and have a want to do it.

[Anonymous No.22532960]

>>22532940
Which industry? Mobile, web, desktop? I always hear talks about oversaturation and shit

[Anonymous No.22533065]

>>22531282
Made one ~2 years ago. It was a bit shit but enjoyed the whole process. Make around $20 a month now so only cashes out from steam once every odd month.
Really want to make another but my wageslave job kind of holds me down. Once link moons ill be doing it again fulltime, really want to work on coop multiplayer games

[Anonymous No.22533071]

>>22532960
The games industry? Usually you'll find oversaturation by trend chasers, but if you make a good game people will always praise you for it and you'll make your money back usually, (It helps that costs can be kept ludicrously cheap).
Big studios are falling apart nowadays, indie is and always will be the future. Hell even modding is starting to become a marketable landscape.

[Anonymous No.22533265]

>>22533065
Wow, anon, was it hard to get listed on steam? And what was the programming language?

[Anonymous No.22533331]

>>22533071
How do you know this? Most people think the industry is impossible to make it in. Are you a game developer?

[Anonymous No.22533943]

>>22533331
yeah, gamedev is always referred to as oversaturated. No idea what's better, though, web games? mobile games? desktop games?

[Anonymous No.22534166]

>>22531680
Dad randomly bought me a game back in high school, thought "that looks old and shit".
Actually had fun playing it. Would play again.

[Anonymous No.22534183]

>>22531282
You will fail.

[Anonymous No.22534195]

>>22533265
C# (unity), steam is very easy to get listed on. You can slap a lot of shit in there. They had a lot of trouble with shovelware for a while.
I had my game featured on blogs like rock, paper shotgun and a couple of other sizable blogs. Issue is the market is flooded.
Getting noticed is hard and getting sales is harder. Mind you my game was fairly basic - 2D top down shooter so not highly eye catching. If I make another game it will be multiplayer, more dynamic and a lot nicer. Art is everything for attracting buyers.

Partly built it because a few friends wanted to build a game, they all flaked out so I just built an entire game myself to show them they were dicks and couldn't commit to a project. That really was the main motivation, then I really enjoyed the development process. Would crave getting home from work to code my project and would be up till 3am doing it.
Blog post over.

[Anonymous No.22534274]

>>22534166
I mean to say *before it went to shit (the city builder series). I think this was one of the last good games. Caesar 4 was shit IIRC, for example. But I think it had different devs, too.

[Anonymous No.22534281]

>>22533265
>And what was the programming language?

You're asking the most irrelevant questions and that's why you're never going to make it.

[Anonymous No.22534563]

I spend my days coding shit games on a trs-80 emulator for it. the games are shit the content in them is shit and the graphics are shit but god I love cramming the code and making something outta such primitive tech.
Eventually i'll move on to the commadore pet and c64 but for now just amusing myself making games I wont release on the trs-80 for fun

[Anonymous No.22534842]

>>22531571
Are you using Unity?

[Anonymous No.22535448]

>>22531282
It’s actually too much effort and eggs in a single basket for a lot of people to pull off.

[Anonymous No.22535832]

What are some games you guys have made?

One time I made this shitty tapping game for android

[Anonymous No.22535862]

>>22531282
i took a cs gaming course in college. the entire class was full of colored haired trannys and their POC nerd simps. not even joking.

[Anonymous No.22535942]

>>22531282
>>22531571
looks cool anon. make sure to post here when you're done

[Anonymous No.22535983]

>>22535862
Did any of them know how to code?

[Anonymous No.22536030]

>>22534195
>I had my game featured on blogs like rock, paper shotgun and a couple of other sizable blogs. Issue is the market is flooded.
>Getting noticed is hard and getting sales is harder.
Shit. This is the issue I'm worried about.

[Anonymous No.22536031]

>>22531282
Jew business like (((movies)))
Toe the sjw line. Shut out lone wolf and small teams by convincing the consumer that only AAA and multimillion productions are worthwhile.
Mobile was the last territory for landrush and now it's filled with freemium shit.
Consumers and
>Muh clan
>Muh online clone of a clone of a clone
are to blame. We get what we deserve.

And theeeen, there's indie.
What a steaming pile of leftwing shit that is. Therapy for bluehaired dykes and transgirls looking for a subculture to fit into.

[Anonymous No.22536048]

>>22534195
You did good for getting published on those blogs, tho

[Anonymous No.22536078]

I have an idea for a game, where do I find people willing to work on it? I cant code or model but am willing to hire a team, I have money to throw around. Are there forums where these sort of people hang out looking for work?

[Anonymous No.22536087]

>>22535862
>a cs gaming course in college
>the entire class was full of colored haired trannys
what a time to be alive

[Anonymous No.22536184]

>>22531291
Only scripting like up, down, left, right etc will be automated by machine learning. More complex scripting will be in part made by IA and part made by chinks slaves.

But modeling is another story, we can use IA to scan, to have something to work, but most of work will be by man itself.

[Anonymous No.22536211]

>>22531571
What you think of Godot engine? Some people hate Godot because is a python like and not python itself. Also, nice work, i am proud to see someone here making vidyas.

[Anonymous No.22536256]

I made some steam workshop items that are pretty popular in a niche game. Also like fucking around with unreal engine and making my own environments. Would love to make a game but I gues ill just stick to paleo-renders

[Anonymous No.22536620]

there are still good indie games being made, but holy shit, talk about an over saturated market. even if you make something good, you have to contend with the 30 other unplayed indie games everyone already has in their steam library.

even boardgames have gone the same way, although at least there, i think the developer has a better understanding that the core gameplay mechanic needs to be elegant. a lot of indie videogames have lost that.

[Anonymous No.22536723]

someone just needs to make Alpha Centauri with Age of Empires 1/2 Definitive Edition

[Anonymous No.22536738]

>>22536620
Board games are even more niche I dont understand why so many games are being made for such a small demogtaphic especially considering you only need one copy for a group of multiple people.

[Anonymous No.22536862]

>>22536738

part of it, oddly enough, is scalability, or lack thereof. making a videogame has high upfront costs, but scales infinitely once made (unless there's online stuff to support). but most games don't sell that much, so the benefit from scaling may never be realized. a boardgame can be developed quicker and at lower cost, and is more likely to return a profit at low volumes. Selling 25k boardgames is going to be more profitable than 25k videogames, assuming similar levels of efficiency by the developers.

[Anonymous No.22536877]

>>22536738
High profit margin maybe per unit. I'm thinking of making a board game myself but no idea what the margins are

[Anonymous No.22536893]

>>22536738

apparently boardgames can even be viable below 1k copies, which is never going to be the case with a videogame

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/617544/does-anyone-have-any-board-games-sales-volume-data

[Anonymous No.22536947]

>>22531493
3d games are cheaper to develope than 2d.

[Anonymous No.22537041]

>>22531571
gives me hope to see anons pouring endless thousands of hours into their dreams, IRL be damned

makes me want to get off the couch and make my dreams happen, best of luck in your endeavors

[Anonymous No.22537079]

>>22531282
I think that the game industry is pretty dead. You can make it but I think you'd really have to bust ass. Like so many ideas have been explored and implemented. You will never be able to make the next DOOM. I feel like the big booms for game devs were in the mid 90s, where you could start something like DOOM in your garage. Or 2009 - 2011. Not too much indy dev competition. Lots of stuff hasn't been explored yet, so releasing something like Binding of Issac or Minecraft doesn't have a million clones of it with a few changes on the market. I think after 2014/15 it becomes pretty tough. Still doable though, but like I said you have to work hard af. Even AAA development has been stale since 2017. The last wave of original games was around 2015 - 2017. Nothing new has come out since.

[Anonymous No.22537961]

>>22536893
Thats crazy, but makes sense. I actually have an idea for a small soloable card game that takes after the simplicity of Dominion. Not too many fiddly parts, its what I personally disliked about some LCGs. Wonder if I could find a market for it if I make it.

[Anonymous No.22538335]

>>22536893
why can't you get the same with videogames? pretty unfair.