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Lots of people want to make games for personal rather than purely economic reasons. So supply outstrips demand and even many free games never get played.
by endtime 7y ago
Lots of people want to make games for personal rather than purely economic reasons. So supply outstrips demand and even many free games never get played.
- captainbland 7y agoYeah this is very true. The main audience for amateur indie game development tends to just be other amateur indie game developers. Often this seems to be out of a sense of reciprocation - "I'll play your game if you play mine". The emergence of many big, well funded companies cashing in on the "casual" space has really stuck quite a lot of nails in the coffin of that kind of development as something that you could plausibly interest people with. You don't have the time and energy to develop a great game and also win in the attention economy.