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- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 21 hours ago:
But that’s the thing. It’s incredibly rare that a indie game becomes successful enough to sustain even a single developer. It’s like with every other entertainment industry. YouTube, OF, Twitch, TikTok, you are competing with millions of other people in exactly the same situation as you. I think it’s OF where you need to be in the top 25% to earn $1k per year.
Hard work and clever marketing can improve your chances of a success, but you still need to be extremely lucky to be noticed enough to make a living out of it.
I remember this talk about a developer making a living as a game dev. Not by making inspiring or “good” games, but by pretty much endlessly reskinning solitare games.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 1 week ago:
Except thumbnail artists exists and can be incredibly meaningful to the success of a video. AI has stolen their work and now directly compete with them. It might be a small part of the whole production of a video, but theft still went in to the box, and less money for the working class comes out.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 2 weeks ago:
The imagine I have in my head to somehow relate to how inverted-y axis makes sense is that “normal” mouse movement you use the mouse to point where you want the nose to go, mouse goes up, nose goes up. While inverted controls a little stick poking right out of the back of the head, move the stick/mouse up, and you’ll tilt the head down. Doesn’t take into account inverted x movement though 😄
I think it was in Halo’s tutorial where they ask you to look up, and whatever up or down movement you did on the stick would be considered up. So whatever first impulse you had of pushing the stick up or down would become the looking up direction. Pretty clever.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s like he doesn’t realise one of the main reasons people left reddit is exactly because of this type of hidden censorship like shadowbanning.
- Comment on In this thread: GIFs you've been waiting to post but the occasion never arises 1 month ago:
We’re sorry!
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 1 month ago:
I 100% agree. I always refund every movie and music album under 2 hours as well. If they wanted to keep my money they should have added an extra hour of slop.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 month ago:
Not like they won with a majority or anything.
- Comment on can I skip the exercise part? 1 month ago:
Alkaline water with a bit of lemon in it!
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 2 months ago:
“Fun” to see them go for it again. I remember they had ads in Battlefield 2 for Nvidia and Intel. I can’t quite remember if they said they wanted the ads to he dynamic all the way back then as well or if the one-and-done billboard were intended.
- Comment on Is It a Bad Idea to Combine Survival, Extraction, and 5v5 Modes in One Game? 2 months ago:
I think you’re underestimating the amount of work creating a game is. Dreaming is fine, the next step is to commit some ideas on paper. A project of this scope is unheard of for a solo developer. So you better have a nice chunk of cash behind you to pay for some developers.
I would strongly suggest you start with a very basic tutorial for Unreal engine and then slowly expand on that to even see if it’s something you’d enjoy doing.
We all dream of our perfect games and maybe scribble down some notes, but actually putting in the work is a whole other matter. What do you have that the tens of thousand survival games made in unreal engine in steam lacks?
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 2 months ago:
They knew the sig “runes” were problematic before sending out the email, as they said they removed them for their German customers, but then kept it for everyone else. They knew, but decided to keep of in anyway.
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 2 months ago:
I assume for the college level students it’s who can mark the level of the water most accurately? I certainly hope all of them would at least mark the water line horizontal to the ground
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 months ago:
And if that is the smallest turning circle of that vehicle I don’t know what to say. These shit bags are just too lazy to turn the wheel and likely have no idea where the corners of their truck are.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Auto save 27 becomes corrupted because of the crash, auto save 26 which has been untouched the last 10 minutes should be fine.
- Comment on Looking for a career change? Then look no further! 2 months ago:
A bucket list item of mine is to go on a training ship. I was eyeing up this one sailtraininginternational.org/…/statsraad-lehmkuh….
- Comment on Title 2 months ago:
But I’m lazy and would just leave the gold in a closet rather than having to deal with selling it. And $50 mil is more than enough for me.
- Comment on Fuck yeah 2 months ago:
Maybe a heat pad would have made it more interesting? 😅
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 2 months ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Usenet more used for newer releases and items are hosted by individuals, not p2p? Since I stopped using Spotify I’m constantly backfilling older music, and with TV shows and movies I’m usually 5+ years behind the release. It was just something I read, the content on Usenet is usually revolved around newer things
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 2 months ago:
Narbacular Drop? And it’s pretty fun to be honest, quick indie game goodness! 😄
- Comment on Crazy how it does that 2 months ago:
To be fair, I suppose it is a well known fact that countries do indeed fit inside itself
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 months ago:
And most time not until the blue lights are right up someone’s ass
- Comment on Father and Son - 29 years later 3 months ago:
Is it a “all blacks look the same” joke?
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 3 months ago:
This post is very intriguing.
- Comment on Google removed Doki-Doki Literature Club from the Play Store for depicting sensitive themes that violate their terms of service. 4 months ago:
No. Unless you straight up talk about genocide they likely won’t remove your video. you can swear as much as you like, talk about all the sex and gender topics you want without getting it taken down. The self censorship is due to demonetisation (or just worse performing ads), unhappy algorithm so you don’t get as many eyeballs, and age restrictions.
- Comment on Happy to help 4 months ago:
Beyond All Reason ships as both a flatpak and appimage! www.beyondallreason.info/download#Download-Play
- Comment on Happy to help 4 months ago:
Since each windows game installed through lutris and steam run in their own sandbox where they are free to mess with things, I don’t see why the same couldn’t be done for Linux games. It’s not exactly an ideal solution, but it would abstract each game’s quirks in where they want to store files just like steam does with the compatdata folders. I know this is basically what flatpak does.
- Comment on dollah 4 months ago:
You’d imagine after a certain point increasing your wealth would become kind of pointless, but alas we have people who seem to want all the money 😄
- Comment on dollah 4 months ago:
Then why not take the 5mil dollars and invest it for 5mil years?
- Comment on As we all should 4 months ago:
I see you’re gemming for strength. Bit odd, but you do you.
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 5 months ago:
Meant to say “jar of jam” :D Don’t worry, I’m an avid jam consumer and tea drinker