It seems to be made by one person, though to be fair, this one person has been working on this project for years and was a professional video game dev before that. For a couple weeks' work, your own stuff compares quite decently. With some more textures, props, etc. I think the game world could be very pretty, certainly bringing more to the table than what a pixel-based map might. And there's also another way to look at things- if one person could make Tunic, there's nothing stopping you from making a game of similar, or even better, caliber. There is still the issue of getting noticed, though (Tunic got picked up by a publisher and even got on E3 as a result!), and I'm not exactly sure how one would go about doing that.
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Tobias 1104~4Y
Interesting... I wonder how many games actually are made by one person. It seems like at most one person did most things, but someone else did another fairly major thing like all the music. Do you know if he did all the music too?
Having experience in the industry is going to make a huge difference though! I imagine the connections from that would be the most important boost to success; I imagine that's how he found a publisher, and got to E3. I definitely don't have the connections for that myself! Still, I'm trying to see the success of something like that as inspiring!
Do you know where I could actually get that game, since it's not available on Steam for some reason? And do you know why it isn't?
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Ampersand68~4Y
It has a store page on Steam, though it hasn't been released yet. The scheduled release date was in 2019, but as usual for indie games, schedule slip happened and it's been delayed, apparently. I just based my observations on gameplay demo video, as it's visual similarities that seem the easiest to point out, given that the game's gameplay is much different from Divine Dreams'. [LINK]
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Tobias 1104~4Y
Oh, okay; it sounded like you'd played it, so I wondered whether maybe it'd been removed due to exclusivity on some other platform or something. I'll have to look out for it coming out, then!
Having experience in the industry is going to make a huge difference though! I imagine the connections from that would be the most important boost to success; I imagine that's how he found a publisher, and got to E3. I definitely don't have the connections for that myself! Still, I'm trying to see the success of something like that as inspiring!
Do you know where I could actually get that game, since it's not available on Steam for some reason? And do you know why it isn't?
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