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*doubt* Because I think it's very very hard OnO

Yeah.

Especially the parts that aren't making the video game.

ALSO devs are even more lazy than you think like laziest people I've ever met, no passion for their work, not laboring under impossible conditions, no care for their players, no love for the genre, no extra hours worked quick, go give a tiny indie a negative steam review to punish this laziness

I can only imagine

that takes ALL the fun out of it.

Relatable content.

How can it be hard; it's software 🙂

Heh heh... Yeah.

I'm usually on the art side and at studios, but coding a virtual tamagotchi thing could be helpful.

Cool. We as customers have and should always understand that. But if said product has obvious issues preventing said game from being functional and entertaining as publishers advertised, then you can't use that as an excuse towards your customers. This goes for indie or AAA.

Yes but also expectations are way too high for newer games.

Nah, I'd win

And this is why generative AI will save the game industry 😮‍💨 /s

Your telling me....

Also videos :(

and that's why it's fun!

I know the pain myself ;-;

I tried to make one in Pico-8 back then, I spent like a month to make a crappy one :(

And the more i think about it, the more it sounds on purpose rather tha- DEVOLVER????

Nah, developers make games BAD ON PURPOSE

This should be the warning text title at the start of every game, in place of the "if you see a saving icon, don't turn off your system" screen.

Not adding micro transactions is way easier than adding them.

even eating the emergency stress brownie?

Buying them and supporting #gamedevs is pretty easy actually 😜

It is very, very difficult - but it is fun.

Nahhh mate. You just push a button and its done.

But also, it's completely different which part of it is hard for each person and each project

Even Divekick?

Just add multiplayer to Ball x Pit, what’s the big deal

to be fair the online multiplayer was the best part of assassin’s creed 3 (derogatory)

*everything*

No doubt

Hell yeah bro

Underrated post

I KNOW.

We agree! And if anyone wants proof, we made a huge documentary about it for Psychonauts 2: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Great resources posted already. GDC releases a ton of free talks on YouTube, too! Years worth of design and art and marketing content

*gestures vaguely at millions of devlogs on YouTube*

Exactly - people be really acting like YouTube archive doesn't exist for countless examples 😅

A must watch. It's so good even for non-devs to enjoy.

It's amazing. It may seem manufactured due to their production values, but is really raw in what it shows.

On twitch there's a game dev category

This is such a good video. Love it to pieces

Yeah, video games are very hard work!

Ohhhh I will have to give these a look! Thank you for sharing ^^

Sadly true. Some people do care and learn or spread info around but there's just always more people, and everybody's too busy with too much stuff as it is.

No clip does some great work! And I will have to check these others out, thank you ^^

yay ty <3 THERE IS CONTENT ABOUT IT TOO hahah

Double Fine Adventure and PsychOdyssey are must-watch documentaries for this reason.

Ha. Yeah. I should have known when it took me 2 years to build an endless runner back in 2012. now I'm 5 years into making a battle royale bubble shooter. and devolver is still alive and kicking. maybe someday we do work together on something guys <3

yet we do

When I was a kid playing games I was like "why didn't they do this the better way?" Now as an adult game designer I'm like oh. The better way is really hard and breaks a dozen other things in the process.

I pray to whatever gods will listen that at least some of it is easier.

That’s why it’s so fun! I’ve written music for at least 20 Game Jam teams and always love the challenge.

Yeah but if I ignore all my projects and play games instead of making them I can keep telling myself that It’ll all work out.

I have gamedev experience, but everyone has already said anything I could add to the conversation.

This was cathartic reading: www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h... Particularly the section: "Failing to understand the realities of game development"

True & hard to find a publisher 😉

And often it's something supremely trivial, like finding the correct shade of blue for your main character's left sock...

Me after listening to the Blood, Sweat, and Pixels audiobook. That, and apparently the Frostbite game engine can go fuck right off.

Yes but that's mostly because of scars from doing matrix multiplication in high school.

i sense some bias...

Like bringing GTA 6 out? 🤣

my code doesn't look like spaghetti because I'm bad at programming; it's because I like pasta AND I'm bad at programming