SGT M'S PROFILE

What was supposed to be Square's "Final" game before it ended up being a success and they made a bunch more of them.

MY ROLE: I will be the head writer, lead game designer, and overall head honcho of the project.

This paired with a lot of the "I'm not sure if I can do this or if the game will sell" aspects of this thread doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, especially since you're asking people to work for exposure.

Unfortunately yes, you do need to be able to do many of these things on your own or at least have a fundamental understanding of them. A good project manager knows and understands how to get their team to achieve the results they want. That's the difference between a Project Manager and an Ideas Guy.

Don't be an Ideas Guy.

You really might want to reconsider commercial game development for the time being and tackle it again when you've got a better grip on this. Join some jams and events and make yourself known.

I have a complicated relationship with selling my games commercially and the gist of it is that while it was one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life (Soma Spirits hit Steam in 2017, before Steam Direct) it also made developing games less fun, so I have not been developing my current project with commercialism dead-set in mind.

If you're not sure commercialism is the route you want to go in and want to start with something low risk, you can always test the waters by having a "name your own price" title on itch io to see if it goes anywhere.

Well, they're back to making Bubsy games, because some company misread memes as actual demand. So maybe we'll get that movie after all.

staff picks

If you think about it, the Featured Games are kinda staff picks. So I don't think we need a Misao for it, too.