My Process For Creating A Commercial Indie Game | Minimum Viable Game 

@Nocturnal Jester It works for me 👌

also steam algo promotes games w/ higher review scores more

Our minds works differently. It's good you figured out a way that works better on you.

Search for "But method" from Jonas Tyroller, it will help a lot. Meshup of multiple genres is also nice. Or taking a standard genre and giving it a unique spin].

My philosophy as a game dev is to make a game I want to play and create something that sends the message I want to give. As an artist, that is my mission. If you legitimately care about the process, you won't ask yourself to be compensated as highly. But if you don't care about having fun with the artistic process and simply want money, that's fine too. In that case, follow trends, make clones, let ads and microtransactions work their magic. But take time to reflect on some of the most successful indie game devs (excluding mobile). Most will say they started with making the project they truly wanted to play for themselves as opposed to looking into current trends

@@troyd9212 I appreciate your time you taking to answer my question. Actually when I said follow the trends I didn't mean to create a clone of an game. I could use some ideas from the current trends and create a game that I would have fun creating and something that I would like you to play. So that the trends will maybe help me get some extra attention.

@@troyd9212 thinking about my own game dev journey, I’m totally doing the same. I make games that I want to play myself, then I guess they just evolve as I become inspired by different things. Oh and money would just buy time to do it all more and more...

Keep a log, preferably on your phone since you have it with you all the time (for me, I get a lot of ideas when I go for a jog). Write down every little thing that pops into your head. Could be one word, one line or a paragraph. Go back and read them time to time and you will get refined ideas. Once you get into this habit ideas really are a dime a dozen. Then pick one, as others said, that you yourself would not only like to play but would love to play. As a rule, I ask myself, is this something I would eagerly wait to buy and pre-order, and binge play on release date? if the answer is yes then I would consider it, if the answer is no then it is not my game. If its something you would love to play, you will have an easier time carrying yourself through all the hardships during production and it will be much, much easier to keep yourself motivated. About the risk and commercial success, as soon as you decide to go solo/small team indie, you are taking a huge risk. I think the best way to find this out is sharing with your potential player base as practical. Most people are shy about this part, worried about being judged and some are worried that their precious idea is going to get stolen (sad reality is no one care and chance are you aren't the first to come up with it). You can do this by creating a small demo/MVP and doing a playtest. This will give you a good indication on if you should continue or pick something else.

Minimum viable channel :p

then its not a MVP, that's a prototype. A prototype's purpose is to test wether the game would work, functionally. A MVP is to test if people would be interested in the game.

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@@shines4031 idk what that means but in my head it's a compliment,and i thank you 🤙

@@birdmann6923 its is XD smart

@@shines4031 lmao well I understand now if you take back your previous statement 😅