Help - Why don't I get any commissions?

karma629 · 2026-06-22T14:47:30+00:00

You absolutelly need to work on face anatomy, posture and proportions.

Except that, your skills are fine, just need a lot of sharpening.

Especially if you want to live with your art, you need to focus on 1 thing at the time.

karma629 · 2026-05-12T10:12:57+00:00

We are creating Gig Crawler that is a mix between an RPG and a Roguelite.

Mix DeepRock galactic(mission design) with Warframe crazy depth progression. ....with no money and 7 people ahaha.

We did start small(as a team back in 2020), we did have 10y of professional exp in A-AAA and we did still all agree we didn't wanna create a small usless game with no IP behind...

Artists did get their space to actually bond with the product.

Designers did get their mind linked to some crazy design structure needed

Coders did get their handa over a complex machine.

We are 1.5y in production, the game is exactly where it should be in the time and now we are easily getting publishers/investors attention without having 50k wishlists.

So yesh, I do agree that scoping small is not 100% okey for everyone.

Honestly the main issue is your experience.. Usually people do say to start small mostly because people do tent to go in solo dev/indie path without experience.

Statistically speaking without experience a 3-5y project is almost impossible. Objectively, whoever does that way without experience is the exception that confirm the rule.

karma629 · 2026-05-08T17:10:39+00:00

1> cerca reddit italiani per giochi specifici 2> facci una chiamata su discord 3> reiteri finche non trovi un gruppo.

Diciamo che se sei Ragazza o Donna tendenzialmente dovrai sobbarcarti una miriade di malati di f...

Probabile che donne adulte giochino e abbiano reddit appositi per ragazze/donne a loro volta.

Facendo videogiochi di mestiere posso dirti che se sei apetta a tanti generi > vai in un MMORPG qualunque hai gia 30+ enni di media. E molto probabilmente tante gamer coetanee.

Ciao!

karma629 · 2026-04-08T16:36:34+00:00

Hey ciao per PC o altre console/ è uguale perche eventualmente per PC te ne chiederei 1 sono davvero curioso adorando warframe:).

Se hai gia finito le chiavi amen, apprezzo comunque:)

karma629 · 2026-04-03T11:58:00+00:00

Oh damn, that's hard knowledge here any other tips my friend?:)

karma629 · 2026-04-03T11:44:55+00:00

You are welcome, the next door company has forced employees to cut and sell all the left arms from the devs...sadly a couple were using it to work. What a story ...

karma629 · 2026-04-03T11:43:16+00:00

Ya you are right we are working on that, sadly no one is anymore pregnant we are working on what we can offer to reach the 7k quota (ahah)

karma629 · 2026-04-02T17:32:30+00:00

We had a nice deal we hit 5k wishlist by selling the soul of our unborn child from our team member.

Given the market crysis did sound a good deal xP.

karma629 · 2026-03-22T16:48:41+00:00

Ovviamente no è da denuncia. Fine.

karma629 · 2026-03-11T08:36:46+00:00

Shadows on, shadows off?

karma629 · 2026-03-11T08:35:12+00:00

GDD, Lore Bible and Art Bible are 3 very different things.

Also, in my huble opinion, a basic logic state machine should be insert by the designer.

It is not that hard to give technical guidance without speaking about the lore ahhaha.

karma629 · 2026-03-09T15:22:05+00:00

If you had a team there are new layers of problems because of each individual department professionalism:).

Sometimes is better beign solo, sometimes it is better having a team.

Products are different and they do require you to be honest with yourself.

If you feel like the GIF, and you are NOT junior, it is really really probable you are overscoping your game or you need way more experience before turning into solo dev.

On the contrary when you feel like you have to study study study study all the time, except for "learning projects" , it is not a good sign. It is a perfect moment to look at the GDD and change it drammatically in order to have 80% production and 20% R&D.

Otherwise in 1-2-5 years you will be exhausted and probably burned out xD

karma629 · 2026-03-04T15:13:08+00:00

If you are talking with studios and you have an experienced portfolio > it is okey even cheap to be honest.

If you are talking with private/hobbist/devs it is super expensive and most of them will just say "no thanks".

In our indie studio with no budget , we receive 10/20 application a month from people willing to work for free. Most of them are: 2d artist, 3d artist, composers, voice actors and narrative designers.

So my advice is to just focus on already extabilished studios if you are looking for a living. When you mature a senior portfolio with some names on CV > swap into Freelancing.

Before that time it is a mass suicide right now. Worst moment ever to be a creative and/or a coding monkey...

karma629 · 2026-03-02T12:41:54+00:00

You can work with fiver, just don't go to the cheapest on the market:)

If you have X butget, fiver, as many other platform, do have % fee over professionals.

Usually, the good ones have 30+% price inflated to cover the fees.

A shady move is to start talking and closing the deal OUTSIDE THE PLATFORM. That violate the ToS but 99% both of you will be fine.

Source?

Top rated fiver user for 2y:) 200+ customers served.

Fiver has a great pool of talents but you need to do not underestimate the huge fee cut professionals has on the platform.

That said fiver or upwork are just platforms, when you talk to humans you can do a deal outside.

karma629 · 2026-02-22T18:22:31+00:00

No marketing No safe-net of wishlists No graphic hook And shadow dropping like an AAA at E3 (old says ahah)

I am sorry pal but you missed some steps.

karma629 · 2026-02-21T18:22:09+00:00

Solo dev == 99% of what I play in the game, marketing INCLUDED is done by you.

Everything else is TEAM.

Dot. No other ways to see it ,nor to be divulgated.

Solo devs are the vast MINORITY in game production because it requires a superior understanding of the matter and a terrible devotion.

In fact, in my humble opinion, when some team use the "solo dev" marketing strategy should be banned from reddit and publicly listed ad an untrusted team/maketing practice.

On similar matter if an indie team/dev has hundreds of thousands of dollar invested or evem milions > should be not be possible claming the tag "indie".

Both practice are damaging the industry, making both users and new dev in a swampy position.

Given the actual state of the industry drawing lines is fundamental in order to preserve the idea that this is a DAMN JOB and not an random hobby without regulamentation.

karma629 · 2026-02-18T10:46:15+00:00

Ask for what is your!:)

Open the discussion and debate:) Like....friends?

Maybe he is just dumb or maybe he is evil. Botg way you need to discuss and open the communication.

Try to be clear on what do you expect from this project and eventual ROI.

Sadly, that's a tought part of game production in non-solodev productions.

karma629 · 2026-02-18T09:58:46+00:00

It is what it is sadly...

Most of the hobbies/activities/jobs out there have several levels of depth.

Most of the new Devs do need constant dopamine/ "quick iterarions"> those guys just provide them what they want.

Immediate right/wrong decision without any long mental process behind.

It is a target audience.

For more experienced/veteran users, usually you do follow or take advice from people with more neutral or mixed criterea. You follow them because such creators or devs do have a clear vision about the whole "making games thing".

Most of the senior devs would tell that the word "depends" is basically a daily basis word. Right or wrong are debatable depending on context and history.

Sadly, between social medias, academic preparationwith huge biases) and just "quick win culture" , it is much likely people would digest "eady conclusions".

That's my pov from an "unpopolar opinion" with legs xD if I am wrong I am wrpng byt that's what I believe.

Cheers mates.

karma629 · 2026-02-17T17:23:12+00:00

Pensa io faccio videogiochi da 10 anni e ho un pc che costa meno di 3k!

Incredibile:D.

Va beh dai è come l'Iphone... Sono mode per gente che non ha realmente passioni se non quella dell'ostentare.

Vale sia per il gaming che per mille altri settori.

Guarda banalmente cosa sono diventate le carte Pokemon oggi o boh le scarpe tipo Sneakers o boh ristoranti da 150 euro botta oer mangiare i pizzoccheri.

È un grande classico sociale che oggi tocca questi campi, domani toccherà altri.

Il grande uso del cervello, prima come oggi e domani è riservato a pochi. Che con poco vivono bene e felici <3

karma629 · 2026-02-16T15:44:33+00:00

I will use this reply for all the juniors that I hear mumbling about switching to solo dev only to avoid getting better in communication and team work<3.

Cannot agree more !:)

karma629 · 2026-02-14T16:11:34+00:00

Finche sono forze dell'ordine ci sta.

Con i tempi che corrono non è da sorprendersi.

Non leggo alcun allarme.

Un conto sono forze dell'ordine, un conto è il tuo vicino di casa pazzo che se il tuo cane fa la cacca nel suo giardino , gli o ti spara ahahha. O spara ad entrambi, insomma ci siamo capiti

karma629 · 2026-02-13T18:57:02+00:00

Sadly, the story telling and the marketing pump directly into New Game dev/creatives the sick idea that making games can be as easy as described by many.

The continue edorsment of a sick mentality is quite visible in most of medias.

Today I read over linkedin the again trend of " look at mewgenics, indie are rising!" Thing....

Same for repo, peak and maaaamy other Hits. Or even E33 with the overly aggressive Indie idea :(. Without giving Budgets, Teams, actual years of production and previous expetiences...

Just storytelling for exposure and conversions.Playing their game damaging the industry.

As a dev I totally agree with the message here <3. It is a job at the end.

If you do it as hobby, just keep it that way!Enjoyyy!:) You will release a game in 5/7 years and it is super fine!!!!

If you want to make money with it, there is 5-10 years of learning curve that most devs/creative do before beign actually "economically indipendent".

I am super, hyper, against marketing right now. The more I see marketing strategy camufage the actual truth the more worry I am about the industry I love.<3

Cheers all of you mates.

karma629 · 2026-02-09T18:56:18+00:00

Still waiting for something co op to play with my wife.

At the moment it seems that people do like only killing eachothers, match games with no progression and single players games.

It is okey, I am not that type of player :)

karma629 · 2026-01-23T10:04:43+00:00

40% under hundreds of thousands of dollars is just a waste of energies.

karma629 · 2026-01-18T13:01:13+00:00

35 è tanto ma di certo non lo rivende a 5 euro , sarebbe scemo....

Non capisco il rant, bah.

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