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Our of curiosity - to the game devs out there: The article suggests this game isn’t possible, as described, even with an infinite budget. Is this true? If the

• somehnacct3757 5y ago
  Former game dev, ten years in the industry. I don't think money is going to be their bottleneck. It's going to be game dev expertise. This game idea is incredibly banal. It's like the pitch you'd get if you asked a kid to design a game. Pitches like these are punchlines in game dev circles. Throw in the article's claims that people are working 80 hour weeks and the owners are offering 20% rev shares with streamers, I just don't see anyone who knows what they're doing taking these guys seriously. With a more professional pitch, one which describes accurately the constraints, it's possible. For example, you can have a hundred million DAU if your game is primarily asynchronous multiplayer. This was being done a decade ago on Facebook. You can have user generated content cover your content gap if you rev share with content creators as Roblox does. They are basically pitching a game platform but never tell you why their game platform will even boot.
• 0xy 5y ago
  It's not true at all. It's impossible only if money and experience is limited. In this case, the scam has no money or experience. $100k won't buy you a stripped down alpha vertical slice, even if you cut 90% of promised features.