VIGAMAN'S PROFILE

Hello all,

I'm currently working on an urban gothic RPG developed in RPGMaker MV. I need help creating custom plugins, setting up events, implementing plugins from other developers, and customizing GUI. So I'm looking to hire a programmer who can help guide me in developing a polished demo. I can do the basic events and implement some plugins, but there are times I can't get certain events and plugins to work.

This position is paid and your name will be put in the credits. I'm willing to promote your work as well. If you're interested you can send me a DM for more details.

While I'll pay you upfront to help me create a demo, I am planning on raising money to create a full game. If you're good to only help create a demo, that's fine with me. This project will be a commercial game.

Let me know what your rate and payment option is. If you have examples or a portfolio you want to show me, that would be helpful for me to see what you can do.

Looking forward to work with you!

author=Bluefeathr42
I've had to make peace with the likelihood that I will never profit off my creations, assuming anyone but me even plays them and I'm fairly certain no one but me will even like them. If I didn't, I would've given up already and I've only got a design document and some sprites.

I say just be realistic with your end goal. You can be still be at peace since you created a game that you and others can enjoy. You have to look at yourself first to see what demographic you want to impress.

author=Bluefeathr42
Game development and fiction writing are not get-rich-quick schemes. Some people don't get that.

Agreed. It's all hard work with the hope of getting someone to play your game.

author=Bluefeathr42
And what really doesn't help you guys that actually put forth honest effort to sell your creations (I wish you the best of luck) is the mountains of half-assed asset flips all over the place now. And now we've even got crypto-mining malware disguised as games popping up.

Thanks for the heads up. I hope that crypto-mining malware disguised as games won't be a huge set back.

author=Sooz
I think it's more that most creators just aren't business people, so they don't really KNOW how to market and sell a product. (And learning to do so takes away from time and energy that could be spent on creating.) It's definitely a set of skills far apart from the kind needed to code, make graphics, compose, and write.

Yeah, marketing a product/service is also a very arduous task. I have it where if I feel like I have enough content on my project to be considered a 'demo' then I'll be making devlogs, which I feel is a 'marketing on no budget'.

author=Sooz
Honestly, no, the big companies aren't doing that great. The reason they still stand has more to do with accounting wizardry and income from unrelated products keeping them going (not to mention severe employee abuse!), rather than actual profits. Not that they're circling the drain, but they're not titans of knowing the industry, they're just the only game in town for most people.

Yeah, it's pretty much royalties from other things such as merchandise and licenses to other IPs that's keeping the big companies afloat. I want to be in that position, though I don't want to abuse the employees who helped develop the games.

author=Sooz
Time and again, AAA have focused on a single game style and ignored everything else, because it's easier and cheaper to market a shiny blockbuster than a mid-level niche game, despite the fact that the niche games will sell reliably, just at lower levels.

Yep...business as usual.

author=Sooz
If someone can manage a good market, indie games stand to do very well in that niche market. It just requires actual human curation to filter out the utter bullshit, which is unpopular because companies are deathly allergic to paying money to anyone who isn't a shareholder.

I rather have it that the market knows what goes into developing games...it's not always a 'fun' job to develop games. But eh, indie or big business, it'll be nice to see a business that takes care of it's developers and considers what the market wants.