Re:Did I just waste 3 years?
by tialaramex on Monday October 01, 2018 @07:11AM
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No.
It was never difficult to "come up with something truly unique".
Your unique thing might be rubbish, but that's not the problem for the millions of shovelware Unity asset flips.
Jim Sterling has covered this at length, even running a competition to show that people can take a horribly over-used cheap asset and do great original stuff - if they try. Asset flips don't even try.
The are tens of thousands of games in which you are an elite soldier running around shooting zombies. There are zero games where you're a pot plant using psychic powers to create sculptures.
Like Hollywood the video game industry chases trends until they're beaten completely to death, and then goes one more round just to make really sure.
It was never difficult to "come up with something truly unique".
Your unique thing might be rubbish, but that's not the problem for the millions of shovelware Unity asset flips.
Jim Sterling has covered this at length, even running a competition to show that people can take a horribly over-used cheap asset and do great original stuff - if they try. Asset flips don't even try.
The are tens of thousands of games in which you are an elite soldier running around shooting zombies. There are zero games where you're a pot plant using psychic powers to create sculptures.
Like Hollywood the video game industry chases trends until they're beaten completely to death, and then goes one more round just to make really sure.