/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>12400328

I dont have a basement...

video games are degenerate and the makers of video games should be unironically gassed

>>12400328
I know nothing abiur coding. If it was easy as say playing pinball on windows 98 then maybe I'd give it a try

>>12400328
God damn it. If Notch can essentially rip off infinyminer and this guy can essentially rip off harvest moon, anyone could make it if they know code.

He spent 10 years actually but he announced that the game was in development in 2012. I followed the game since that time when it was greenlighted on steam.

>>12400328
this guy look soi af

>>12400328
I've always wanted to make my own game, but I'm not a NEET. I have other shit to worry about unfortunately

>>12400722
lol no he doesnt you fucking incel

>>12400328
so this is what peak cocoon mode looks like

>>12400328
But I am making a videogame.
The guy didn't make it in a basement, in five years, or in isolation.
He graduated from CompSci but couldnt find a job and eventually gave up. Worked as an usher in a cinema for four years while building Stardew Valley. Split costs with his gf too (now his wife).

>>12400328
Unfortunately I have a job.

>>12400328
you can count the number of these success with game stories on one hand. there are literally millions of similar indie games with just as much time and effort put into them that make $0. game development is the worst industry to be in. its like saying why don't you just become the #1 app on appstore, the fart simulator did it. yet there are literally millions of apps that have less than 100 downloads. it has more to do with being picked up in the news, becoming a meme and getting onto the top seller list which further propels your popularity than anything else, which are completely out of your control and are essentially random luck events.

>>12400724
>But
You have no balls, that's what's preventing you from doing it

>>12400839
This. Same thing as
>just make a viral video
>just invest in a 10x stock
>just invest in a 100x crypto
>just get a job
>just have a real conversation with your mom/dad
>just kys

>>12400846
No, I would say I'm more lazy than anything. I'm not "scared" to make a video game kek

>>12400839
Name one industry where that's not the case. In the end it's all about how good your product is, how well you market it, and how suitable was the timing of its release.

>>12400918
Get off your ass anon, take the wheel of your life.

>>12400921
asteroid mining.

>>12400921
Bingo

>>12401049
Neeting

>>12401049
you mean like playing Bingo?

>>12401084
The bingo industry seems to be hot. Get in there

>>12400986
How do I get into this?

>>12400786
This sounds more accurate.

Also trying to make a video game. Learning coding, on and off, at the moment. Frankly speaking best I can do with making a game is just a text based game. Then again I started learning less than a year ago. Starting to think it might be pointless in terms of never having to have another job as the chance of success is low. I recall one anon on here or maybe some other board who already has a game on steam but it's not really known, looks alright but not my kinda game.

>>12401101
thanks for the hot tip bud

>>12400921
shrimp farming

>>12400921
Prostitution

>>12400328
I have made games. It's hard as fuck. This guy is a psychopath.

>>12400700
This. Videogames are for faggots and you're actively contributing to the decay of the West if you partake in them in any way, shape or form.

>>12400328
Because I am an idea guy and finding people to develop my idea is expensive.

>>12400328
he made a harvest moon clone and *somehow* didn't get the shit sued out of him for plagiarizing. whoop-dee-doo.

>>12401238
Making games is definitely hard. I made a text based game cause thats the best I can do. Not even sure I want to continue learning how to make video games. A lot of effort and you might not even be succesful. I partially wanted to make a game for fun but that amount of effort just doesn't seem worthwhile comsidering the time invested just to make a short text based video game.

>>12401310
It gets easier with time like anything else, but it really does require a special kind of person who doesn't mind being isolated for days on end, spending possibly a whole day or more on a single problem. They should teach prisoners to code, they'd be perfect for it.

>>12401245
You're posting on 4chan bro. This is probably the most degenerate place on the internet.

>>12401446
You need stackoverflow. No internet in prison

>>12400839
>which are completely out of your control and are essentially random luck events.
Not random at all. It depends on how good you are at marketing. Most people suck dick.

>>12400328
I am. The pre-alpha is slated to be released this summer.

Literally me. Ask me anything you dorks. Quick correction, I did indeed only spend 5 years making it, a lot of that was patching up XNA code that didn't work after 3 years. No I'm not going to prove its me.

>>12401101
Thanks. Just bought 100 K

>>12401504
How do spend 5 year not working?

>>12401504
>No I'm not going to prove its me.
What is your wife's initials. That's all the proof I need

>>12401534
>gf paid for everything

>>12401504
What is it like to make it man. If you are lurking biz it must be as dull as I expected. Which is actually noice.

>>12401226
That's cause you're a cheap ho

>>12401461
1. This is 4channel
2. I thought /biz/ would attract serious people but now that I think of it, it's 90% NEETs expecting to get rich overnight because they bought crypto.

>>12401629
imagine being this fucking retarded and thinking you're better than anyone else

>>12401586
>If you are lurking biz
Guy probably gets alerts anytime Stardew Valley is mentioned anywhere on the web.
>Stardew Valley Stardew Valley Stardew Valley Stardew Valley

Blowing your shit up yet EB?

>>12401504
How many books did you have to read before you had the necessary computer knowledge to start making the game?

>>12401446
It was boring when I spent hours working on it only for it to be a text based game. Integrating graphics and audio I don't even know how to at the moment and sounds super difficult. Was hoping to make a video game that's succesful so I no longer have to wagecuck and hopefully succesful enough that my family wouldn't have to wagecuck either but it's becoming less appealing to learn this. Heck haven't even studied much after doing a bunch of coding a few weeks ago. Currently in my 20s and have a poorly paid job.

>>12400752
>lol no he doesnt you fucking incel

Get a load of this faggot right here

>Uses "lol" to try to mask his butthurt
>defends some random literal who on 4chan of all places

Choke more on his onions cock and eat shit faggot

>>12401956
Dude, Concerned Ape is here. Please mind the language

>>12400328
Because I'm too autistic and spending already 7 years on perfecting the engine. I literally wrote for everything i made mathematical proof's first to make sure it's optimal. I still have not a perfect solution for complex meshes. On the bright side my engine runs now at 4k fps from formerly 80 on old hardware. I hope i can finish it before i die.

>>12402415
That's impressive Anon! It really blows my mind how far graphic engines have come.

Planning to license/sell it when done, use it for your own projects or other plans?

>>12400752
the only people I know that play stardew valley are faggots and women..

>>12400328
now show the thousands of guys making games in their basement who will never achieve success.

>>12402543
And they are the biggest consumers.
Thats how you make money by selling to retards that throw their money at everything

Bros I miss Friends of Mineral Town on my Gameboy SP

>>12402562
>But my idea is better than all the others!
Lesson: The guys that have made it in the vidya game industry usually rehash the same shit others have already made. There is no point wasting time and resources trying to "innovate".

>>12402456
It might be a bit too idealistic but i find it a sad state how most games teach you little of value unless you intentionally dive into topics like market economics or minmaxing and write your own simulation software or bots.

So i want to make a game that looks good enough and is educational just by it's gameplay to get people hooked on entertainment value but still learn something instead of purely wasting time with no returns. For that purpose making it run even on the worst toaster should greatly help.

Also probably gonna need a lot of resources if i want to do anything close to using "ai". On the bright side i got a degree in ml/math so i'm at least not completely retarded and might have a chance.

>>12401880
I'm working on a VR game and you don't really need to read books. You just need programming experience. I went from coding software for a few years straight into game dev.
Only thing you might want to do is learn how to draw. Then you can transfer that skill into making your own 3d models so you don't have to outsource.
Big tools like Unity, Unreal and Blender make it way easier to integrate graphics/sound/whatever you want.

>>12402681
>It might be a bit too idealistic but i find it a sad state how most games teach you little of value unless you intentionally dive into topics like market economics or minmaxing and write your own simulation software or bots.
VR is making the educational game thing much more interesting. For instance, there's the game Wrench that just came out which teaches you automobile repair.
This shit is going to make trade schools obsolete.

>>12402736
AR will kill training once perfected.
>set an overlay on the machine what to do.
Open question is how long til it's good and affordable. Current decent AR eyewear is ~10k