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What do you mean by asset flip? (And how would this encourage this)
by maaaats 9y ago
What do you mean by asset flip? (And how would this encourage this)
- dgritsko 9y agoI've generally heard the term used to refer to low-effort games that are basically just third-party assets packaged up and sold as a full experience, while having little to no "playable content". The availability of these assets could encourage this since they are freely available.
- wlesieutre 9y agoIt's especially common to throw these together as "early access" games, pretending that they're still in development and will get deeper content at a later date.
- floatboth 9y agoYeah, often it's ad-supported App Store / Google Play titles, where one developer uses the same engine with different assets to make many games and hope someone accidentally downloads them and clicks the ads. Like the (in)famous Grab That Auto https://youtu.be/yU6WC4dpaHM https://youtu.be/yU6WC4dpaHM
- detaro 9y agoAn "Asset Flip" is a commercial game puzzled together from ready-made bits as cheap as possible (e.g. get some shooter template code, drop in some free/cheap character and weapon models, copy or make some really basic levels), without consideration for the quality of the resulting game.
- jimcsharp 9y agoIf you've ever followed a Hello World game building tutorial for UE or Unity, somebody has taken the end result of that tutorial and placed it on a game marketplace somewhere. It was/is a bit taboo, but the gaming phenomena PUBG also used UE marketplace assets, although they added value by making an enjoyable game around it.