You're a starving indie game dev, and you have a choice to release your first major game on Epic or Steam...

Epic. Then I can make my next game while not starving and not in an unstable position. I'll be able to work with double the passion and focus and then my ultimately better second game will be on Steam.

Steam since it has a larger user base. only an idiot would take epic.

God DAMN dude, the art isn't even cute. Insane. Sadly that tactic only really works with porn games.

I'm very conflicted about these trips.

My heart tells me Steam, but my dick tells me Epic.

Epic Store and whichever console has the best exclusivity deal. A timed exclusive for 6 months means that I can get revenue back on the project whilst working on the other platforms' ports, which as a smaller dev is pretty ideal.

release on all stores, see which one is more profitable and then make timed exclusives to the one where you earned more money

Not even porn games in general just fetish stuff. Unless your game has incest, cuck or furry shit it's going to draw no dimes on patreon

Why are people into cuckolding and incest so much nowadays?

Uhhhhhhhhhh I host my own webpage and plug in a paypal thing for a download.

Why don't game publishers make their own online platforms and sell from their own servers? Indies do it with 100$ in cash and a macbook air to start.

Who says you have to play on one or the other?
what the fuck?

Release it on my private blog alongside GOG.

Yeah, I remember when I was legally obligated to throw away all my PS4 games when I bought a Switch

Release myself from living.

>that update
What the fuck, both before and after look almost identical.

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Incest has always been big. No idea where cuck shit came from though

>steam will die soon

>ballon tits for everyone as a upgrade

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Epic won't offer large amounts of money to some shitty indie dev, only a fantastic game that will be popular.

I'd do it on Steam because I find the Epic store to be offensively gay bullshit. Their attempt at competing with Steam is completely shallow and has little to do with actually supporting the release of quality vidya.

The only current publishing platforms I'll support are consoles, Steam, and GoG. Everything else can literally eat shit.

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On both of course and fuck that exclusivity bullshit.
Also it's unlikely that an unknown indie get's such an offer at all anyway.

>only a overhyped AAA trash game that will be popular.
Fixed

>want to design a game based off of my fetish
>the fetish is the core gameplay mechanic, but it isnt played as anything explicit or distasteful
>i want the game to have depth other than the fetish

Should i just show it to people and deny it if anybody notices the fetish

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They take less of a cut from the profits and offer their engine for cheap/free to developers under them, not really shallow.

what fetish?

Epic store, abuse the system as long as it still has Fortnite money. Then apologize when it goes bankrupt and release everything on Steam. At full price.

>release everything on Steam. At full price.
that's just evil

epic has yet to give money to a starving indie game dev
so far they declined all of them

good

I'm really not sure what you are getting at here. If you think the core mechanic of the game is so shameful that you have to try to avoid people from understanding it, then you've already failed.

The good ideas are the ones that are created by someone who actually has a spine, not someone who is so concerned about what other people will think that they water it down to the point of it losing it's value all together.

I don't care how much of a disgusting degenerate you really are- stay true to the idea of the fetish and don't try to alter it because you think others might find it "distasteful."

If I'm Indie, my game will be shit, so I'm gonna give it Epic.

Go for both

I might give free steam keys to people who actually bought it on the epic store. A year later.

Whatever your fetish is, if you include furries you will get MAD dosh from Patreon.

Steam

Because then I could generate as many keys as I wanted and sell them on my own site and get 100% of the profit. Also I can make some anime titty trading cards and sit back and watch all the autists buy .jpegs while I get 5 cents a pop.

You think they're doing that because they actually give a shit about creative integrity? It's just a promotion, user. They're trying to coerce reputable devs into signing on with them through tactics such as this. There is absolutely no fucking way they'd allow the type of freedom Steam allows, and that's why they are shallow.

In fact, your entire perspective on publishing a game is shallow if you are thinking about it purely from an economic point of view.

Dude that's really motivating to hear. Thank you.
Inflation. No, hear me out.
You play as a dragon thing and have to solve puzzles by swallowing elements and either spitting them out somewhere else, or reacting those elements with other elements inside of your body. drink at a lake and spit water back out to extinguish a mouse's burning tiny thatched-roof hut, eat a bunch of corn and then breathe fire to create popcorn for a movie theater, even doing crazy shit like eating raw cake mix and water and then baking a cake, eating ore to melt it into metal or swallowing enough air and generating enough heat to become a hot air balloon, or a level steampunk level where you have to boil water and manage the steam pressure of a bunch of random shit to win
The NPCs might be furries but the main character should be intentionally ugly-cute non-anthro so it will be neutral enough for the player to project as it

The switch, those kids will buy anything

If I am starving i just find a job and do the game thing on the side and release my game on every platform possible.

I can't fucking believe it's you.

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Are you kidding?
Steam will knock me back for some unspecified reason and Epic are a bunch of cocksuckers that demand you shut up and follow them.
I self-publish.
If your game isn't a fucking 10 gigabyte monstrosity you can push it easily through your own website.

Oh hey you're that guy. cool.
But you should look into alternatives to Patreon, because those guys are a bunch of faggots. Do you accept BTC?

Why would I ever release a game? Worthless cuckolds would pump money into my Patreon for years if I just occasionally released still and animations that appealed to their particular fetish. You'd have to be retarded to make ANYTHING in the 21st century instead of just coasting by on empty promises.

Oh god don't use Paypal, you might as well use American Express's payment processor. Paypal has more red tape, more fees, and even more bullshit unappealable bans.

Market it as the fetish.
Dishonesty is unattractive to the consumer of a game.
Shame/weakness about your fetish is unattractive to people with the fetish.
(Unless it's a really fucking faggoty fetish where shame is the whole point)
Now, you will get shit on for shit fetish.
But you'll get shit on twice as hard for being a cowardly dishonest cunt otherwise.

Huh, so a transmutation game mixed with vore/inflation fetishes?
Might be cool.
But if you're ashamed of your fetish then you won't be able to promote your game properly.
Also, make the main character furrybait as fuck. You know your target audience. Haters are going to hate and them hating twice as hard ain't gonna lose you any points.
Whereas people who buy games for cute characters exist and they're basically free money.

Now personally I think your fetish is /trash/. But eh, my fetishes are probably twice as bad as yours, and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

It's obviously not Dobbo. Dobbo would never go to Yea Forums for advice. Dobbo would never go to ANYONE for advice.

This
If you're approached by epic at all, your game has a good chance of selling a lot better on steam

I hate dobson with a seething passion because inflation is embarrassing enough without it being associated with a spineless autofellative sjw

I'd kill myself for not choosing a real career.

Epic of course but sadly i'm not a developer and neither are 99% of the Anons ITT so this hypothetical situation is pointless.

I will just let people download game for free and just give my bank account number so people can donate me money in amount they think I deserve

What I'm saying is, if you're doing this, Do it properly. Don't half ass it. Trying to play both sides of the fence is going to give you a nasty wedgie.
Know who your core is and drill for that core. Peer to peer marketing is goddamn king. 1 person who loves your game enough to funpost about it is worth 30 people who think your game is decent.
You want to maximise that amount of dedicated fans, because that's the nucleus around which your user base forms.

And for what it's worth, my biggest problem with fetishes on Yea Forums isn't that there are fetishes on Yea Forums, it's that the fetishes which DO exist on Yea Forums are dishonest as fuck.
If the various gay erpers could stop being a stuttering anxious coy pile of faggots in denial and just fuck already, they'd be less insufferable.

Hol up. Bad move. People are going to stop paying you because it's inconvenient. Make it so they have to bring up the Bank Transfer window before the DL link becomes active.

>50,921 per month
Good fucking god.

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delusional retard, thinks that epic gives exclusivity deals to no name indies

>if my game is good
>epic: get money in the short term but everyone fucking hates me and my game
steam: make no money for a long while till everyone starts farting out their cunt to support me cause I didn't fag out and go to epic and the game is good
>obvious choice is steam
>if my game is shit
>epic right now and get as much chink yuan as I can for my piece of shit game.
>steam: release my game and it's just another obscure piece of garbage in the sea of steam garbage
>epic is the winner in this scenario

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neither, both are capitalist pigs and my game is for truethinking hipsters anyway

subscribe to my patreon and ill give you the file

>people actually pay for this shit

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>50k a month
>600k in a year
>game looks like any other tumblr garbage
QUE THE FUCK

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In one month this guy made more money than I did in the past 8 years.
I'd buy a gun to kill myself but I wouldn't be able to afford the bullet.

You see now the power of fetishes.
Just be thankful he isn't Nintendo. He'd be making 50M a month then instead of 50k.

At least Nintendo is a big company, a lot of people and infrastructure that needs to be paid.
But this one guy would be in the 1% in my country.

Where should one shill their parteon to get this much money?

Then you can become the 1% too!
Make fetish shit and sell it to rich western audiences with neetbux, minimum wage starbucks jobs, student loans, and part-time "social media influencer" bonuses.

Steam + gog

>soul vs. soulless

Add some porn and it might work.

Steam + Switch

Is this game called Tribal Hunter by any chance?

...

release it on GoG and steam.
i'd rather earn my cash through customers than through supporting something that trys to ruin my favourite hobby.

>he hates balloon tits
Okay casual.

Anyone have a link to the latest patron build?

>He makes video games in hopes of making money off them

Get a real job and make games on the side if you don't wanna starve. Besides, making a Dreamcast game is easier and far more cook

>actually wanting to touch that garbage
get some taste you fucking degenerate

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What does starving mean?

The joke is Epic Games Store wont take your indie game trash unless it is already popular and has a huge following before release.

Why does this guy have this insane wide-eyed look that all the mass effect andromeda models had?

Could you imagine if games like shovel knight, hollow knight or ori would be epic exclusives?

Maybe I like games like Rondo Duo and big titty western shit like Summertime Saga. Fight me faggot.

you have no money for food and havn't eaten in days

I mean it's not my business if you can appreciate garbage art, but it's not just the art that sucks in that piece of shit 'game'

Wow the autism of the internet never fails to surprise me.

I would take the Epic Deal, and tell the Steam and GOG folks that in order to provide quality updates to the game, i had to take the EGS deal to remain financially tenable, but will be releasing a GOG and Steam version the following year for those who are interested.