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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I think it's funny how so many comments in that thread agree with OP, not realizing that it's about them.
"Haha yeah, so many shitty indie games that are going to fail miserably. Not mine though, mine is good"
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