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This is definitely a topic that stirs a lot of discussion. As part of the indie community, we always stand by the values of humanity. There’s a real question about whether AI will just become another tool for big corporations to maximize profits or if it can truly empower indie developers to push creative boundaries. Personally, we believe in the latter. When AI tools are shared within the indie community, they become something we all can use to support our ideas and projects. It’s about making AI a resource that belongs to all of us, not just the big players.

Played 4 of the five in your list and enjoyed them a lot. Doing to try the last one after this video. I liked the inside, is going to be make me play them again 😅

Very interesting exercice. Please keep these coming!

in your opinion & you are incorrect. obviously you made a title name and video to farm clicks.

This felt too scripted. It also felt like you’d placed your text through a LLM. Whatever the process, the end result is that you distanced yourself from your audience and failed to connect with them in a real, authentic manner.

Also rts games it self are insanely difficult in compettiv enviorment not from the apm stand point but strategy wise most beginners dont know a single strategy or tactic from the start. people arent patient enough to figured out tactics and strategies so they end up with one or to tactics or strategies that they can win yet from the pros easy to counter

RTS as a genre has a apm problem since starcraft 1 and age of empires came out its insanely difficult to figured out to reduces the apm and if it has a low apm option the strategy for the game there are so difficult to pull of with a strict timing and percise scouting starcraft 2 was notourious for having the hardest low apm tactics to pull of particually as a zerg

Very nice video

I just recently learned that comments actually help improve recommendations on UA-cam-guess I'm a bit late to the game. First off, thanks for the channel. I really enjoy your videos-the content, pacing, editing, everything. I find them genuinely valuable, not just quick entertainment, and you definitely deserve more subscribers. As for this video, the tips are spot-on. I especially liked the "Learn by Doing" advice (aka "Start now") because I know quite a few young people waiting for the “perfect” moment-watching tutorial after tutorial but never actually coding, drawing, or modeling (whatever is your preference)

Sir, what indie game do you ever created and released?

i cant believe you didnt even mentioned Palworld

Loooooooove this video and format!! Bite size analysis of interesting game design. Perfect! Thank you!

00:52 that clip had me laughing so hard I had to pause the vid

imagine losing a soldier in xcom that you've not just trained for hours but who's also married to another one at the battlefield O__O

5) like it rogue like deck builder tower defense

4) bloodborne rogue like

3) ok a new hybrid, nice

2) 2d civ 5

1) children of morta kinda games

Love this concept. Combining interesting mechanics and genres in unexpected ways is a rich well of creativity!

In contrary to big AAA(A) titles, the only way indies will sell are if: -they take a risk and innovate -do something really really well and break through the mold I think it would be money well spent for game companies to pay their game designers to play indie games. I was paid for play Alien Isolation for 2 weeks. Best time ever. And time well spent. Edit, thank you for the great game recommendations, more please!

I took this approach with the game I'm making. It's an arena-FPS similar to Devil Daggers, but it's set in total darkness and you see by beating your heart. I just posted the first devlog for it on my channel!

Your videos are very interesting thank you for your content :)

As a foreigner and not english native speaker I like your voice acting, well done!

Whatever marketing agency told you to talk like that - fire them and revert back to normal.

Whats the strangest yet best combo of ideas youve seen lately?

It's getting worse man. This cynicism is starting to leak into AA games now, where mediocrity is becoming the status quo. No one is trying to break the mold or be unique anymore out of fear that their game won't appeal to ALL the people. It's certainly worse in AAA, where they've completely stopped caring about games and they are products/hype to be sold first and entertaining/functional second. I'm gonna step on some toes now but CDPR is starting to do it. The initial release of CP2077 was an utter joke and it doesn't matter how shiny the new DLC is or the anime they released. NOTHING, will ever erase the black stain that is now forever on their record. "The game took 8 years to make" my ass. That garbage was still well into alpha build and if they weren't under direct threat of lawsuits I doubt they'd actually want to fix it.

the quote of "theres no glory playing it safe" along with the next silence that comes from the video finishing is cinematic. absolutly Peak non-fiction

I love the closing words at the end of the video.

UA-cam I'm inspired, give this man his algorithm.

Wait I didn't know about 'to kill a god'. That looks right up my alley!

Comment for the algorithm

you should add a caveat, because all your examples a games that literally made millions of dollars, success looks different to different people, not every game needs to be a smash hit run away indie darling. plenty of people have made stable career out of indie games without making a hit. this might be sound advice for making unique game but I don't know about how this holds up if you are planning on making a business out of games.

Excellent video! The AAA industry is extraordinarily lacking in all forms of creativity; they are morally and ethically bankrupt at the moment. As a 31 year old 3D modeler(blender maniac), I am swearing on my mother's grave that I will throw my entire soul and life to bringing back inspiration and authenticity to the gaming industry. Thy will shall be done, until kingdom come. Great video as always Andrew, just know that the cavalry is coming, it will just take a little time. (learning Godot/UE5 and C++ to integrate my 3D modeling into actual game development). Please keep sharing your extensive experience in the game industry, help is on the way!

There's no reason to not use claude or chatGPT for programming or idea generation, but beyond that using AI art is risky for devs. Mostly because the community will roast you alive if they find out you're using AI assets. Also large content creators will not cover your game if they know it has AI assets.

Do you know that steam started charging 100 dollars publish fee to slow down the wave of AI shovelware? Its annoying now we broke indie devs will have to get kickstarter just to get listed on steam.

A lot of the layoffs have nothing to do with AI its cauae by the economic cycle we're in.

couldn't put it better myself!!! this whole debate about AI reminds me of the one about robots and automatic machines decades ago (I'm an robotics/automation engineer), I vividly remember folks complaining about the possibility of being replaced by machines, but that kind of fear only affects the ignorant and/or the incompetent, if we were to be completely honest... every new revolutionary/evolutionary technology has 2 defining traits attached, 1, almost nothing will be able to stop it, and 2, it will displace works and jobs cuz that's the whole point, this has been true for thousands of years and I feel safe to assume isn't likely to change... now, as humans, we are very good at adapting to new and changing conditions, and that's what is likely to happen around AI... now personally, much like _touch screens and wireless tech_ , b4 those came to fruition I dreamed about those tech playing a bigger role in my (our) lives and becoming ubiquitous... same for AI, alas this one has been taking longer to becoming fully realized, we are almost there tho, hopefully while I'm still around to enjoy using another great tool!!!

Thanks for this Video. It really is a scary and exciting topic and I think you did a good job on summarizing it. I personally believe in a far (or not so far) future where AI can also be creative BUT it is not the human creativity we know and thus doesnt replace it and rather both "sides" when in unison create games that we neuer dreamt of. At least the optimist in me does. For me AI is nothing I wanna shy away from and at the same time I really believe even more in human interaction and Connection to be successful a long side AI helping us. At least in my bubble i can slowly feel this urge and longing to get back to what makes us humans so great and its certainly not technology that makes our lives easier and easier. Again thank you Andrew I enjoy your content a lot

Level headed and on point as usual thanks for the fantastic videos Andrew.

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I know it’s a potentially emotional topic, so please keep in mind the human behind the words when you share your thoughts.

Do you know what the common denominator of all the companies that are pushing generative AI at all costs is? Their falling stock prices. What is sad is that corpos really tought they found a goose that lay golden eggs in AI instead of promoting art and creativity.

awesome