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all game stores are flooded with AI slop. good luck competing
by not-a-llm 2mo ago
all game stores are flooded with AI slop. good luck competing
- CuriouslyC 2mo agoIndy games markets have been flooded with human slop since long before AI was a thing, the marketing playbook hasn't changed at all, if you just fire games into the void you never had a shot.
- not-a-llm 2mo agoit took 1 month to make a human slop, now it takes 1 day
- CuriouslyC 2mo agoPeople have been making games in a weekend using asset packs/store resources and engines for a while now. Indie gaming speed ran a lot of the marketing bullshit that every kind of app is suffering through now, and there's already a pipeline in place that works pretty well: itch.io demo -> vlogging/streaming/discord -> steam demo -> early access -> streamer promotion.