for video game dev, the times are Unprecedented: -easier than ever to make amazing shit -easier than ever to find creatively-compatible people to make it with -more affordable than ever to punch above your weight technically -THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE IT HAS EVER BEEN TO GET A SINGLE DOLLAR OF FUNDING - ThreadSky

joewintergreen.com • 78 days ago

for video game dev, the times are Unprecedented:

-easier than ever to make amazing shit
-easier than ever to find creatively-compatible people to make it with
-more affordable than ever to punch above your weight technically
-THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE IT HAS EVER BEEN TO GET A SINGLE DOLLAR OF FUNDING

Reposted from ari velazquez 🌯

there are ways to stay afloat if you are very small with low costs but like... fuck that imo. that doesn't work for me. that's not why i'm here. i want to make art with like-minded artists and it's literally a solved problem, the problem isn't creative uncertainty, it's 100% who's holding the cash

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arraxis.bsky.social•78 days ago

And if you do get funding the moneymen are gonna fuck you over hard. So many studios gutted by venture capitalism.

byte-arcane.itch.io•78 days ago

Sounds like supply and demand... It's easy -> lots of people do it -> market is saturated, everybody's creations get less attention/money -> investors/publishers can see that and are careful.

ed3800.bsky.social•78 days ago

that might be the line of thinking they're operating on but it's really counter-productive, but it's only made the games more formulaic, less appealing and of lower quality, and everyone sees a crash coming over the horizon because of it

habboi.bsky.social•78 days ago

You're definitely right about that first one, technology keeps getting better and normies like me can make boxes that look AAA very easily 😎

joewintergreen.com•78 days ago

Just out of my discord, I could LITERALLY, in the traditional definition of the word, spin up an incredible team to make incredible shit IMMEDIATELY if I had funding. Multiple teams good enough that it's entirely realistic to just fund us and get an amazing game with no upfront idea what it is

joewintergreen.com•78 days ago

Even if I'm only drawing from a pool of people I
-Know really well
-Already know are amazing
-Already know are LAID OFF
I can get a team together immediately and ship something sick in 6 months if someone gives me some fucking money. Sounds like kind of a fucking fake thing to say but it isn't

annahollinrake.com•78 days ago

It is genuinely unfathomable what could be out there right now if the past two years hadn't been a weapons grade clusterfuck for getting any money over the line

elhector.bsky.social•78 days ago

You are absolutely right Joe. Spent most of the last 6 months trying to get some funding, and it’s grim out there. Even with an amazing team, and solid idea. Switched to looking for a job now, and even looking outside of games too. It’s the worst I had felt things in my 20 years in this industry.

kevinmarks.com•78 days ago

Could you do a kickstarter raise, or does that require a more specific pitch than you're making?

joewintergreen.com•78 days ago

I don't think that's ever really worked for the amount of money you need to do anything without significant other investment

yellowafterlife.bsky.social•78 days ago

More generally KS has long been used by publishers as a way to gauge public interest, which has skewed player expectations to the point of thinking that something like $40K is enough to have a team of 5 work on a game for a year.

armabellum.bsky.social•78 days ago

Crowdfunding usually has good results when it's used to get the last stretch of funding for a project, but not when used to fund a project from the ground up.

niall.codes•78 days ago

Truly grim that the only stable way to make games right now is evenings and weekends, alone, with a day job. We dream of team

brianvfx.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yuuuuuuuuup.

arvy.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yeah, It's so dumb I swear

lunajavier.com•77 days ago

When we started our studio 10 years ago we raised some funding on top of what we put in. We got some gamers giving us hate for that. "You don't need money to make a game" or "they could have just done Kickstarter"

It's... a company? It costs money to pay people for their work. Teams need funding!!!

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