MIRAK'S PROFILE

$100 is pretty cheap to publish your game on Steam, and you only need to get $1000 in net sales to get that money back.

Can you elaborate a bit on this? I'm interested in knowing how steamworks eh, works, as an indie dev but the documentation I find is confusing.

There's a huge amount of hentai RPG Maker games on Steam. I'm not sure if you can find that content here? Yes, there are normal RPG Maker games, ones without the Adult content, but they usually don't sell very well.

"Smut sells" isn't a very revolutionary take on selling on steam imo, or even exclusive for rpg maker titles. I can literally open twine, make a "game" where all it is is a collection of pictures of my feet with a generic snake game overlayed on top and I'd be guaranteed to "make my money back" from exploiting the wide market of creeps and stupids, but I think the OP was talking about more tasteful ventures.

It's more than obvious by now that the only way to "make it" as a peddler of games of this genre is to accept it is extremely niche and that means the "returns" you'll get from them are as such. The only people willing to "give a chance" to serious rpg maker games that look the part of an rpg maker game aesthetic-wise, or promote the game by self-admittingly wearing the "made in rpg maker" mantle, are inevitably going to be people who were already invested in rpg maker to begin with because the stigma that was imprinted on the "rpg maker game" label thank to the shitpushers on steam is irremovable now and effectively makes people steer away from them. It's very "lol funi meme" to hate on rpg maker now, and as anything that becomes a meme, it is immediately adopted by the vox populi, even with those who hadn't even heard of rpg maker and indeed still don't know what it is.

In my case I'd like to go commercial on steam only for the pleasure of aiming for niches under niches. Anyone who's played or watched liberty play my games knows what I'm talking about. I'd be pretty content to have a few games as some sort of "piggybank" for idk, weed money. I'd fucking ADORE to put steam cards in it and make very cool art for each. To make kino quality badges the type people would like to display in their badge showcases in their profiles, i'd love to see it be peddled and bundled in fanatical and indiegala or whatever for people to purchase perhaps unwillingly, only to install it and go WHAT IS THIS!?, then maybe write a review detailing how receiving that game with a bundle of games they actually wanted was like finding a fun-size snickers hidden amongst a bundle of carrot sticks. Maybe i'm aiming low? Yeah. But I'd rather truly put marketing effort in selling my custom asset development services and asset bundles which are incredibly more fulfilling both to produce and work with business-wise anyway.

Actually ideally i wouldn't even publish them myself i'd be fine with giving the 100 bux back to whoever allowed me to satisfy that hideous craving once the sales slooooowly pile up until that amount was reached lmao.

For anyone who isn't in discord, Liberty is giving us another day to fix bugs and stuff before she streams the games tomorrow, so yeah. Upload your fix and PM it to liberty before tomorrow at around 7pm (that's my time +6gmt) god knows most of us need to fix shit

I guess that makes me one of the average mid-game random encountrr

teacher i dislike group assignments on valentines can i do the thing on my own?

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Or we could go the complete other direction and make it "Kentona's Shitpost Award" and have the memeist games for it, though that invites bad joke games to be thrown around.

Oh good, you opened the intro to my suggestion.

I'm not saying anyone here is doing that right this very moment but sometimes I kinda get a bit weary of people dismissing strange, non-sequitur and surreal games as "joke", "nonsense", "shitpost" games without any sort of value in them without even giving them a chance. It was a "memey" attitude first, but I've seen it slowly creep up to being almost a trigger response to immediately discredit such games from consideration the moment they're not your "standard" fighting the monsters kind of game. Can we do something about this? Could we, perhaps, try to redirect the conversation from "people are gonna be encouraged to submit bad random weird shit nonsense" to "people are gonna be encouraged to submit GOOD random weird shit nonsense made with a SHITLOAD OF EFFORT"???

I'm gonna get the elephant out of the room first: I can see how this might look like it is about Frogge and me mostly BUT, i WANT to see more of US, in DIFFERENT presentations. Game developer minds are such an universe of fuckery, we should encourage artists whose brushing hands stroke without abandon and restriction! The ones that "fail" the most spectacularly, the ones that create all these trainwrecks you people claim to dislike and yet it's so obvious how you cannot avert your eyes.

Thus, help me name a new alternative category for "Best Shitpost Game", to redirect it towards a positive purpose. Be either thanks to the art direction, the absurdist plot, or whatever, if it's a "meme joke game" which was crafted lovingly and beautifully, it shouldn't get pushed aside as mere piffle because it somehow is not worth anything thanks to it not having a conventional, classic story formula.

The Incredibad Award for Tasteful Gamedev Shitposting
So bad, and yet so satisfying!
Came for the meme game, left after I came.ok maybe not this one. See i'm not so good at naming things.

inclusions of the terms "you people", "you" or any other seemingly accusatory remarks were added just as dramatic flair, because mexican soap operas are my life