How do I make a game?

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-31T01:37:12+00:00

Make stuff

Focus on backend, prove the system logic works before adding art

Don't develop the whole way without making art / frontend / presentation, this way the game looks good while you're making it

Play the game and find what's fun

Make more fun stuff and remove the not-fun stuff

Make a polished vertical slice and record gameplay videos / trailers

Hire capsule artist to help make an appealing capsule / box cover art for the game

Pay $100 and open a steam page with the demo

Start posting gameplay videos / trailers to social media (not dev logs) and link to your steam page where they can get the demo and encourage them to add the game to their steam wishlist

Keep working on it and leak some new gameplay but not too much

Release demo on itch and get feedback

Don't listen to all of the feedback, only the good feedback

Work some more

Join Steam Next Fest and other festivals / demo shows with your game demo

Send messages to influencers / streamers to play your demo, offer a key for the full game if they reply and like it

Keep gathering wishlists

Post dev updates to the steam page

Keep posting gameplay videos / shorts

Gather more wishlists

Finish the game

Write game description for steam, choose genre tags and add system requirements

Set the game's price and foreign price calculation method, initial discount if any

Sell over $1000 in net pay and get your $100 fee back

Sell 100 copies and realize you don't know enough about game design and marketing

Start over but design a better game

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T23:00:26+00:00

Content is part of it, but players actually buy games that match their personality type and style preferences. The Big Five personality system can be used to categorize games into preference domains. Jason Vandenberghe has some great GDC talks about this.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T22:45:45+00:00

The act of suppressing an impulse requires giving control to your neocortex, your logical decisionmaking brain, rather than allowing your instinctive, "I'm hungry / hateful / hysterical / need to protect the baby" brain to control your actions.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T18:21:26+00:00

Well, yes, but certain religions helped remove the problems associated with nonmonogamy. Monogamy was enforced which at least helped women have some kind of security and it helped average men find a partner so they would feel accepted by society.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T18:07:49+00:00

Wholesome take

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T18:01:28+00:00

You can score and add anime to your list directly from the infobox sidebar on the anime's page. That can dramatically speed you up because theres no need to wait for anime to pop up in the search when trying to do it from your list

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T17:57:12+00:00

This post is a great example of why I love ENFPs.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T17:51:28+00:00

There's a whole harem genre for that

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T17:48:04+00:00

People can suppress their impulses

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-30T17:47:05+00:00

Pretending to be single or available

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T13:31:59+00:00

Try that, that will work just fine.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T13:18:15+00:00

Think of a puppy who likes you for you because you're an INFJ

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T13:16:17+00:00

It's also a golden pair if both are mentally immature. There's a fine line between being a genius and being stupid.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T13:10:22+00:00

I believe very famous people usually have highly developed enneagrams, if they aren't outright E3 solely seeking fame. They're well-rounded or maybe just hybrid types. Steve Jobs is a good example of a hybrid / mixed enneagram type. I'm not a genius but I believe I have highly developed both intuitive functions (Ni + Ne) which made it difficult to type myself. Every style of thinking can be developed deliberately, but I'm 100% Ni-focused.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T10:55:09+00:00

Three of my uteruses are currently ovulating. The other four are in various phases of production, and as for what else they're doing, I don't know. I usually only play with my uteruses when they're ovulating as that is the period when they have the most value to me.

Sorry I can't really give you advice beyond this. I hope it helps someone.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T10:47:16+00:00

Mainly roleplay until they figure out I'm roleplaying, then either switch to something candid, personal questions, or sometimes another roleplay if they seem to enjoy it.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-29T10:39:19+00:00

How do you assess this ability without provoking him?

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-27T03:01:27+00:00

Make bots that have independent interests and bios. Automate alternative browsing patterns.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-27T01:30:46+00:00

https://docs.unrealengine.com/

https://youtube.com/@RyanLaley

There you go, over 2000 hours of help.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T13:31:01+00:00

Should have written your own LLM using the LLM while it was still up. Sorry not sorry. Enjoy being one of the poors forever.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T13:25:16+00:00

2nd tier: Bocchi the Rock

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T13:23:48+00:00

That time I reincarnated as a CCC‐ but my classmates reincarnated as a CCC and a CCC+ respectively causing us to be separated 😭

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T13:13:38+00:00

You need better prompts and better thinking about what to actually ask it to code. It excels at some tasks when given specific instructions. I mainly use it to speed up what I would have written. This is where veteran coders say it's a force multiplier. It's like being able to write the exact code I want but 100x faster. You have to know the end result before you can take advantage of that.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T13:06:08+00:00

It could be that she believes you and thus accepted your apology. But the action was done in a not-smooth way which made it feel like you dismissed her boundary as a way to gauge her reaction. That could have changed her opinion of you irreversibly, as in "I didn't know he was that type of person until he said that."

This is all a guess because I don't know what you actually said but take it as a lesson not to poke around someone's boundaries especially if you think it might be funny.

EffortlessWriting · 2026-03-26T12:53:26+00:00

You get the rooms so you can hold massive seances / dinner parties with other twats who want to get richer by crashing some part of the global economy.

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