I'll probably sort of die on this hill, and people will not like what I say. And I might even shoot against myself with this. But we don’t need the next 5 little offline audio games that have nothing interesting besides some library sounds, are spin-offs of other games we’ve seen a thousand times, and then get hyped because they’re in NVGT and therefore feel modern because they have reverb and HRTF.
Exactly what I thought would happen has happened: the engine is completely abused for nonsense. Sit down and rather take a year to make a good game instead of copying some crap together that no one will play for longer than 2 minutes. The hype and happiness about "Wow, we can actually make good games!" has switched to "Wow, we can just continue making our old boring BGT games or even just port some meh games over and continue on the crappy code."
I’m not saying you shouldn’t make offline games, but get creative. With the sounds, with the game concepts. It feels like certain people—and I’m not going to name names, but maybe you can guess—just release a ton of stuff, and I can’t even keep up with what’s actively being developed. And bruh, they even charge you money for that.
Keep going with your good stuff, but don’t think you need to release something new every second week. Thank you!
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