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Look at Stardew Valley. One person (Eric Barone aka ConcernedApe) designed the game, wrote all the code (including the engine from scratch), designed all of the

Look at Stardew Valley. One person (Eric Barone aka ConcernedApe) designed the game, wrote all the code (including the engine from scratch), designed all of the characters from concept sketches to final in-game art, wrote all the story and dialogue, created all of the sound effects, composed and recorded all the music with an original soundtrack of over one hundred pieces of music. The game has since sold more than 20 million copies and some publications have called it the greatest game of all time. An indie game by one person! Generalists absolutely can succeed today!

Kezzo 3y ago
He did not write the engine from scratch, he is using MonoGame a framework that takes care of graphics, audio and input: https://www.monogame.net/showcase/ https://www.monogame.net/showcase/
- debugnik 3y ago
  MonoGame is a rather shallow abstraction over DX9/10 era APIs, I don't think it's fair to say it "takes care" of much beyond wrapping some platform dependent code. The content pipeline in particular ranges from painful to unusable.