I've seen a lot of posts lately about people talking about their NextFest or Summer steam event experiences. The vast majority of people saying it does nothing, but when I look at their game, it legitimately looks worse than the flash games people were making when I was in middle school.
This (image) is one of the top games on a top post right now (name removed) about someone saying NextFest has done nothing for them despite 500k impressions. This looks just awful. And it's not unique. 80%+ of the games I see linked in here look like that have absolutely 0 visual effort.
You can't put out this level of quality and then complain about lack of interest. Indie devs get a bad rap because people are just churning out asset flips or low effort garbage like this and expecting people to pay money for it.
NextFest is a Steam event where they highlight upcoming indie games and devs release demos of their games so people can try them out. Every other post on the subreddit has been "why isn't my shitty game getting any attention" and their game looks like this:
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Actually filled with really good comments.
Wait till Janny comes home
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/r/GameDev has weekly "retrospectives" where r-slurs complain that their games are perfect gems and their only mistake was a lack of marketing, and then they link the games and they look like the screenshot from OP.
Not sure who that sub is actually for but it's certainly not game developers
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It also has a huge population of theoretical game devs
yeah, the game is in my mind and all coming together. Which engine should I hello world in next? I just bought a $300 course on programming, I taught myself some html and even css back in the day tho. Completely self taught. I also bought $130 of assets the other day. A good deal. I'm gonna use them in my game, I have it all planned out in my head, though it's evolved a bit since 2015. Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
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I have a really cool app idea, I just need a codecel to completely build it for me
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I'll sell you a $900 course on how to aquire and manage apps
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Actually that was my app idea
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my idea is powered by AI
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Ai blockchain driven synergy
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I like to think of myself as an ideas guy.
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Immplying jannies leave thier homes.
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