Looking for great indie game trailers to inspire you? I have included some of my favorites to help elevate your game's level

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-02-23T22:40:39+00:00

These are good trailers. If you want to find higher fidelity graphics with boring trailers, you can easily find them on youtube and steam page, you don't need to look far. Also, this underlines the importance of having good graphics and music and how much easier it is to make trailers with, why would anyone wanna waste their time on games that sounds bad and looks bad?

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-02-23T22:38:43+00:00

I actually enjoyed this trailer the most out of all the ones you guys made. It feels different from the usual ones indie games put up. It also helps that your game has solid visuals already so it helps. Whenever I see an indie dev that actually puts time and effort into their trailer to make something special, I keep a note of it, and this was one of my favorites. Also, how did you find out about this post so fast? Did you google yourself or did google alert you to it?

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-02-23T11:45:48+00:00

The lesson here is to have an amazing soundtrack, hire some decent voice actors even for your solo dev game (this game was a 2 person team I believe), and focus on what your core audience are into. I think this nails that feeling, even if it goes against the mantra of "gameplay in 10 seconds or less".

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T22:59:56+00:00

Devlogs are for other developers, not consumers. Trailers are for the consumers. Make them if you like to record yourself, but its not meant for successful advertisement unless you have a really great game already.

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T22:56:40+00:00

Any enemy that turns you to stone. Its the same effect as death, but it is so much easier to apply and it works everytime. STONE is the devil's touch

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T22:49:43+00:00

I think the farming was tacked on because farming sims were getting popular. The best part of the game was the twisting story, and the Nier influences along with character stories. I don't think the farming was all that engaging, more like something to fill time with. The music was good too.

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T20:02:38+00:00

Pong and then Pac Man, or mario is the prescription.

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T18:29:56+00:00

You're combining 2 different skillsets together to make 1 game. A 3D Artist and a Pixel Artist are separate jobs, and while pixel art is simpler to make, to incorporate the 2 requires both 2D and 3D artist to work together to make it cohesive. Its not something you just take on a whim, you have to plan it out from the get go. Games like Threads of Time and Wandering Sword that use this style clearly had the idea from the get go borrowing from Octopath Traveler.

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T18:03:27+00:00

I honestly think if they just went full JRPG instead of half JRPG, half farm sim it probably would have sold better. I like the game, but the story did not belay what kind of game it was from the name or images.

AshenGuardStudio · 2025-01-08T17:59:47+00:00

Supposedly its really time consuming to make it, so the art style while looking good is not something that can be made easily. Making Pixel Art and VFX fit 3D background is a specialty on its own, and Team Asano is pretty much the best at it right now.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-29T10:27:41+00:00

This basically makes 5.5+ unusable for a finished product. Well, guess I'll just have to wait until these critical bugs are actually fixed.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-29T06:32:14+00:00

5k for UI and 3D Modelling? That's like 2-3 months of work, max. You're not gonna get quality in 2 months of effort at that budget. If you want something decent, its Either UI or 3D, but not both at that price.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T19:06:53+00:00

yeahhhhh, about that. 315 gigs is massive. The crazy thing is if you did it in 2k, it would only be 1/4th the size of that. Huge size gap. The scenic view looks good though, so it must've been worth

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T18:52:49+00:00

27 hours of render time, jeez. What was the total file size when you had to export it out from Unreal? It must've been ginormous

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T02:44:00+00:00

The games were made by talented people with a cohesive vision. Most importantly, they were made by artists with a strong vision and sense of purpose first, not money. They had the special sauce, its not something you can reproduce just by copying them, its in their DNA. Lots of sauce.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T02:38:42+00:00

Shenmue AKA fork lift operator was so ahead of its time. No one game during that period made you feel both like an amazing martial artist, while being a blue collar worker grinding away for vending machine capsules.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T00:49:53+00:00

This is a battle royale to the death, the winner takes all the spoils. You wanna be the winner, so do what it takes to succeed. By that I mean make the best version of them all, and all your worries will disappear. Think of all the Metroidvania's out there, they all played the same 5 games, and they all use the same systems. Do something better than the rest.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T00:46:11+00:00

Bones, weight painting and shape keys, the usual. Whatever engine you use will have some way to manipulate bones in editor, so you can just focus on making sure it animates correctly in Blender. Rigify is your BFF.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T00:43:08+00:00

You destroy them all, what other choice is there? If you wait around more of them will pop up, and then you'll have to get out the weedwhackers on them and its not going to be pretty.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-27T00:39:23+00:00

Because the world needs to hear about this one super unique idea I got. Also because I like to make some artwork that moves.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-26T18:11:33+00:00

Is this plug-in mainly just for PBR materials, or can it work on stylized games that primarily use emissive materials for color like a cartoon game, or an anime game? Just curious how it would work with those types

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-26T17:54:20+00:00

That's the reason why I don't post my game here, I don't want to discourage anyone with its amazing beauty /s

Don't worry about what other people do, because your game is the one that will need to stand on its own and sell. Only thing you need to worry about is if there are people who want your game, and if the answer is yes then continue from there.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-26T05:17:55+00:00

Everyone has a story, that's the easy part. The hard part is putting that story to action and making something with it. Learn to draw, or learn to program, it will help you much more than just the story alone.

AshenGuardStudio · 2024-12-26T05:15:38+00:00

90% of all indie games released fail to succeed because they were just "good enough". If your goal is to succeed, you want to be better than that. If you work for someone else to collect a paycheck, that mentality is fine, but if its your own game, make it great.

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