Nowadays many people see that the industry games which is currently rapidly growing, is only dominated by competition between large companies, each of which is able to launch games AAA grade.
However, there are things that are rarely seen by ordinary people, especially in the group indie game developer who tries his luck with “own” efforts to get a place in the industrial world games.
Many of them are one man army or what we can also call as solo developer. But is it becoming a solo developer Is that a realistic move in the midst of the many “big fish” in the ocean? Let’s take a closer look.
Become a game developer is a job that requires its creators to be creative and be unique or have a unique work appeal in the eyes of the market. on the market indie games ourselves, we can see a lot games with the same theme but still trying to be unique and known by the general public.
For example, let’s explore games the genre clicker. This genre is one of the genres with very many variant releases at this time and has been developed by many people with many versions, backgrounds, functions and so on.
However, they remain loyal to some of the standards that have been implicitly embedded in games This is so that fans can still understand games them well.
Then besides that, some game developer also make games which they developed as passion project to get inner satisfaction.
This can be likened to a parent who wants their child to be what they dream of, but this can be good or bad depending on the environment in which the child hangs out.
Stardew Valley
What does it mean? Let’s discuss some stories solo developer which you may already know the story of. Let’s start with the developer’s story games Stardew Valley.
Games it was developed to have themes like games its predecessor is serial Harvest Moon where is developer feel that iteration of the series games it’s lost charmher and try to make a games casually similar.
Eric Barone, the developertold that at first he was just trying to make a games to provide opportunities for fans serial games this is to play and reminisce with what they used to feel in the 90s.
But when he developed games At this time, he began to discover the many possibilities that could happen and many things that had never existed before and even had the thought that he could become indie game developer real by releasing games this.
After a 4 year journey in developing games this together with the support of the beta tester and others, finally games it was released on February 27, 2022 and got a lot of positive feedback from the players.
Not only that, until now games this is still one games best seller in 2022. Games It also has the full support of its community and is actively developing games This is with the fans.
Who is really special? Gamesher or developer-his?
It should be noted that Eric Barone is not a game developer commercial and just a tired programmer working at cubicle and idly trying to develop his childhood games in a new format and he has had success in that. So, its success is a good example for developer who are still just starting out.
Bright Memory: Infinite
After Stardew Valley, let’s get into the next discussion. This time we will explore the story of a developer a young man who has started his fad project since he was in school.
However, this time we will discuss a games which some of us might not believe that this is a project from a solo developer. Check the video!
Introduce, Bright Memory : Infinite. a games which was originally developed only as demo of what it could develop in a games genre First Person Shooter (FPS)has now developed into a games whole that can be compared with games AAA developed by large companies.
Developer this young man’s name is Zeng Xiancheng from FYQD Personal Studio.
Zeng originally only had passion on FPS games and successfully developed games the first, namely WAR STORM which is spread on Chinese sites and is free-to-play. After he finished school, he worked as a game developer and gain experience by working with his team while developing a games the new one he named Bright Memory.
From demo On a whim, he got a lot feedback positive and everyone wants that games this has a full story to see the potential it has games. He also developed it and until now games it becomes games which is ready to be released this year.
It must be admitted that his journey in developing this game was not short and took a lot of things along the way. However, if we look at it from the point of view of a creator, we will get our own pride in this, like enjoying the fruit of what we have planted so far.
Indeed we deserve to feel happy if we succeed in developing our creations according to what we want, but we need to remember that our creations are consumption for users other than us, and we cannot impose our own will.
The next story is a slightly sad story about a husband and wife who develop a games.
Cube World
introduce Cube Worlda open world games RPG with graphics voxel-based which has been the subject of discussion at the time alpha release game this.
Games This promises a world where we can freely explore everything in it without being tied to a story and has a simple goal such as developing and defeating the monsters found in several dungeons on the map.
Games This gives the player the freedom to explore this world starting from doing farming items from monsters, looking for materials crafting in the forest, until you get mastery from trainer concerned.
Many say that games this is the RPG version of Minecraft because of the graphics and because of that games it also has cult-like followers faithful to every development.
But one day, after alpha game build this release, games it lost its update and all the players only got news of updates visually from social media developer-his.
Until one day in August, 2022…
a nudge from the developer surprised the players and a hype was created. Everyone has been patiently waiting for the release games this. However…
In September 2022, the day of waiting arrived. Cube World released on Steam and para backer who previously had the privilege have got game keys this first and play games-his. However, this story doesn’t end well enough.
It turns out games this gets overhaul massive in the system gameplaywhich made the players very disappointed. Games this was not what they expected. Games it’s not even what they remember. They want something other than this.
So therefore, game review this too is flooded with negative review; and as of this writing, games it doesn’t reach 50% positive review on its Steam page. Disappointed players have flooded the Sang social media again developer to request further information.
However, the developer actually lost the news and did not show progress from games this since games this is released.
Cube World review chart
Lessons to be learned
Moral of the story of all trips game developer above is when we develop gamesshould us (read: indie game developer) develop games that grows together with the community.
We need to listen to ideas and input from the community because games it is a thought that is expected to be accepted by all parties other than ourselvesespecially if we have shown the potential of our creations and people have paid us to complete our creations.
So let’s be developer who develop our creations like our own children who grow up with the environment we have chosen and choose us so that the “child” grows to be everyone’s pleasure.
If you have something you want to create, execute it, and give it a form of creation so that it becomes a complete creation.
Thanks for reading, Gxg signing out!
(Edited by Satya Kevino)
