DoomBot5 137 points 3 years ago

You don't, you just release it as is and call it Early Access

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Kyle_The_G 41 points 3 years ago

Its a "LiVe SeRvIcE"

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bruhduh 14 points 3 years ago

"Quadriple A game right here bois 12/10"

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xmunk 31 points 3 years ago

Just make sure the ingame store is functional so you can sell more add-ons to your vaporware - star citizen is the most profitable video game to ever not be released.

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ILikeBoobies 1 point 3 years ago

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xmunk 4 points 3 years ago

Yup, the most profitable are the ones with exploitative designs... genshin impact and honkai star rail make obscene amounts of money.

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Quetzalcutlass 57 points 3 years ago

This is why modding games is great. Most of the hard engine and framework stuff is already done for you, so you get to focus on content creation (the "fun" part).

Still difficult, but it requires a fraction of the time and effort that making a game from scratch would take.

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whou 8 points 3 years ago

weird. for me, the "hard engine and framework stuff" is the fun part, while the content creation is not boring, but just very hard for me :P

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idunnololz 35 points 3 years ago

I'm so glad I made games as a hobby before I got anywhere close to graduating. Killed that dream real fast. It felt like shit having to play your own game so many times the game lost all meaning and it was hard to gauge if it was even fun anymore.

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oce 15 points 3 years ago

Reminds me of learning to play a piece of music you love. By the time you master it, it seems all the magic has disappeared.

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idunnololz 7 points 3 years ago

I tried to teach myself piano. I actually enjoyed it when I was learning it, however I was really enjoying the progress I was making and less about the music I was playing. I wonder though if you get really good with music, you can probably learn and play new pieces much more quickly so maybe the magic won't fade as quickly.

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oce 3 points 3 years ago

I think you appreciate the piece in a different way, it's less magic and more knowledge.

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Aceticon 2 points 3 years ago

Game making professionally is more like going all the way to playing a full piano concerto to a paying audience.

Sure you start by learning to play the piano, which is fun, but you also have to compose several pieces that people will like enough that they'll pay to hear them, organise the concert, learn the specifics of public performance and so on.

The cycles were the pieces you compose are shit because they're limited by your limited piano playing knowledge so you go back to learning some more only to find out you learned it all wrong hence your current technique will never be good enough so you have to relearn a lot of what you thought you already knew, is not fun and the having to learn everything else needed to organise the concert because you have to make the whole thing generate $$$ even though all that you really wanted was to play the piano, is also not fun.

For somebody working in a large game company, it's the difference between a hobby and a job, whilst for somebody doing indie game development it's the difference between a hobby and a business.

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MonkderZweite 2 points 3 years ago

Is that the same effect like playing a piece you love over and over and suddenly you can't hear it anymore?

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oce 4 points 3 years ago

I think it's even stronger, because sometimes you'll repeat the same 10 seconds a thousand time to master it until you feel like jumping out of the window.

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charmed_electron 12 points 3 years ago

I did something similar. I would get about as far as writing the interesting mechanic/game logic and then give up.

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Kissaki 3 points 3 years ago

So you succeeded in prototyping?

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magic_lobster_party 6 points 3 years ago

I’m also glad I did it as a hobby before I started viewing software development as a job. No code from me if there’s no money on the table.

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idunnololz 7 points 3 years ago

Oh I actually love programming. I just hated writing games it turned out lmao. I love front-end development especially.

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Bransons404 2 points 3 years ago

This. I started with 2d browser games. Turns out that was way too much work for me and landed in front end. I'm totally enjoying it now

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dan 1 point 3 years ago

Interestingly it's becoming more common to use front end technologies like React in AAA games, for things like in-game menus, and development tools.

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thann 34 points 3 years ago

The third half is always the hardest

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Feidry 6 points 3 years ago

The fourth half is pretty easy though.

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Opafi 4 points 3 years ago

That's only because the fifth half usually is as difficult as two halfs at once.

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sheepishly 14 points 3 years ago

Just release unfinished DLC for $35, release a "definitive version" even though that was only the first half of the DLC, release the even more unfinished second half of the DLC and still leave a bunch of shit from the base game unexplained. Yeah I'm still salty about something, how'd you know?

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Ethanice 2 points 3 years ago

This sounds like Destiny but I'm not sure.

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sheepishly 3 points 3 years ago

It's Pokemon

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Socsa 8 points 3 years ago

This is why you just change jobs every three years.