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Comment on Sabotage Studio initially projected sales of 250,000 copies of Sea of Stars in the first year. They hit that target within just a week.

orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I know that stupid rich CEOs and shareholders don’t understand this, but… “heart”. You make a game with heart, and it’s immediately apparent to the audience. You can try to break down what it is that gives it away, but that’s unnecessary.

If a work of art has heart, it will probably sell well. As long as people can see what it is and it doesn’t do anything alienating.

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I realized pretty early on as a developer that my projects motivated because I wanted the thing I was making were far better than projects motivated because I wanted a project to work on.

A lot of the large companies are now run by business majors who are primarily there to make money rather than make video games.

Though you do need the skills and dedication in addition to the vision, because I’ve also got a bunch of projects that started as something I was very interested in but then stalled because I didn’t have the skills or focus to stick with it.

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