Why you came to the game industry?

I warn you that I’ll touch in some delicate questions, but sincerely hope that you understand this like a simple call to start to think, plan and most importantly “act” at the same size than your original goals.

Is the game industry really growing? I don’t think so; I seen it’s spreading. We have more people doing games and this is uncontestable, more products, but proportionally we have the same – if not less – number of great game franchises emerging each year if in comparison with the 90’s. By franchises emerging I’m talking about “new ones” not remakes with new technologies, so I’ll not even mention Publishers again after this paragraph.

Let’s keep this among us Indies, nothing wrong with start small, but I really doubt that the majority of us decided to start on the game industry because played some Tetris version on a cell phone, this is analogous to some boy deciding to become astronaut because looked at a taxi driver working.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be the last guy to criticize colleagues from casual, or the ones that simply planned in just make games small or not, but if this was not the original intent, they simply forgot their inner aspirations in exchange for an “almost what I wanted” position. With this effect, they lose, players lose, but the worst: Industry stuck on their path.

The Undergame’s Gnomes

Most of the usual game studio start-ups today looks like that Southpark characters’ one; The Underpants Gnomes have a business plan that lead then nowhere by simply lack of one item – I think that all you know the episode - so, they continue to do exactly the same thing without notice that all this effort is taking then nowhere, or at least not exactly where they planned. Does the bottom plan look familiar? 

Do a small game.

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Your answer here.

Just to keep you on track, I’m not talking about get rich, to be sincere, if your bottom line is just make money, get enough to pay bills or a +2% on your studio stocks pricing this is not something you should read. If you have another answer, that real one that you are forgetting by convenience, by fears in try really hard, come on! I invite you to do something and fill “your” second line! 

If your own achievement is not enough to convince you to start doing something, also consider that a lot more players like me are waiting. So, remember the reason that brought you here.