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.![:marseythumbsup: :marseythumbsup:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseythumbsup.webp)
Wait till Janny comes home![:soysnootypefast: :soysnootypefast:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/soysnootypefast.webp)
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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.![:marseyspecial: :marseyspecial:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyspecial.webp)
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
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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![:marseydisconcerting: :marseydisconcerting:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydisconcerting.webp)
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Actually that was my app idea
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my idea is powered by AI![:marseyindignant: :marseyindignant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignant.webp)
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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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