Shame Free Gaming #15: Four Mistakes Developers Make
Today we're going to look at the four most common aspects that separate more successful releases from the less successful ones. While there are no guarantees of success or failure, there are ways for a developer to improve their chances of success. Hopefully these four points can help developers in our industry make even more awesome games!
Shame Free Gaming #15: Four Mistakes Developers Make | Shame Free Gaming (Podbean)
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I think 'staying away from public political statements' would have made a good point 5. Ive had creators i was even supporting on patreon who I had to drop after I open their discord and find the creator spouting off politics I find repugnant. Once i had to write off an entire studio
I put it under communication, because I think politics can help in context. If I was making a video just focusing on this topic, then I probably would have given good examples of the use of politics. Honestly it terrifies me to even bring up the subject, because I don't think I'm an effective enough communicator to tackle this subject.
On the subject of flavors being the most important thing, one frustration as a consumer is that a lot of games' descriptions keep info about the flavors to a minimum. The Steam page will be eager to tell you that it contains many sex scenes, but no details beyond that. Maybe out of fear of driving away potential players if they mention any niche flavors? Even games that do specifically say what flavors they contain tend to do it with just a list of tags. Often without any indication of which flavors are most prominently featured, or if any of them are optional.
I miss being able to talk about flavors.
I prefer to listen to this on Podbean, is censorship also an issue with audio content? Iirc back when games were bought as physical media and there were expansions, it was calculated that expansions only sold 5% of the sale of the core game. I wonder what the figure is for DLC (or equivalent)
It seems to not be allowed on Apple, but Spotify is OK with it. I am more worried about pissing people off by appearing callous towards a very complex geopolitical situation that is way beyond my understanding.