roasts the r-slurs of /r/gamedev
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
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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The only reason I'm still subbed to gamedev subs is to point and laugh. I'm practically fully autonomous at this point and only go to reddit when all the documentation fails me.
It is absolutely fascinating how consistently bad at their hobby that userbase is.
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All hobby subs are like that because no one who is actually good at a hobby wants to spend their time somewhere spammed with questions like "how do I stop eating my glue?!"
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