What ACTUALLY Makes a Game Successful?

[@yamananimation]

I'm so glad this channel exists, thank you and please keep making these videos!

[@KhietND]

I absolutely love and appreciate your videos! It would be amazing to see a video or series where you take a break from the hardcore topics and do something more casual, like scrolling through or playing random games on Steam while sharing your thoughts. It could also give real examples of all the topics we’ve been discussing.

[@ivchatov]

this guy has the sigma chin without a filter

[@EdwardLabarcaDev]

Absolutely golden information that needs to be taken seriously. HUGE thank you for sharing your insights, this’ll be 100% useful for all developers who take game design seriously.

[@notiashvili]

I think another way to explain your attention times action concept is to just do multiplication. So, if V is the attention (views) and C is the action (conversion rate), then roughly, S (sales) should be V times C. S = V*C If we want to 100x our sales, we can increase V by 100 or C by 100. Both are way harder than just increasing V by 10 and C by 10. So 10V*10C would give us 100S, so 100 times improvement, done easier than 100V*C or V*100C. Gamedev itself is something like this formula, except it has thousands of other variables which you can tune and which interact with each other in complex ways, but the concept is that you can gain massive leverage by tweaking select few variables if you know how they interact, which in this case we do.

[@wojtekwitowski]

Thanks a lot for your videos. You are propably the first indie guy who had a big hit and shares this with the rest of the community. Most of so called "experts" on YT don't know what they are talking about. Had no success before.

[@nubemuffin]

Thanks for making these videos and sharing your experience and knowledge. It's good to hear from a guy who knows what he's doing.

[@ariamohebi]

Bro has a new poster for every video💀Great video, thanks!!

[@centneriss]

Really appreciate you making this type of content. Looking forward to the next one.

[@Infinitumgamee]

I do agree with everything you said. I also think there s an extra important factor, which only applies if your game is multiplayer. If it is, then it matters a lot how fun it actually is to play with friends. If a single person tries it out, will he want to invite more people to play with him/her?

[@SecretZoneGames]

Thats actually so insightful

[@magnawiz]

Subscribed. You, Jonas and Chris keep it real

[@robertrobert88887]

man can't wait for another video!

[@nassergreatdeveloper3745]

Thank you man.

[@SUPERitaa]

he doesn't even need the views he just wants to help us all praise the future devgod

[@ping_th]

he is already top tier dev bruv

[@fear0600]

Great video as always! If I remember correctly I heard you talk about the importance of having a GDD in some interview, it would be amazing to hear yout thoughts on how to write one!

[@AlnixDigital]

You miss one big multiplier... Mods! Let people mod the game like Minecraft, Among Us, Skyrim, TF2, Garry's Mod, etc. Then they will be able to create the content that they want, using your game as a platform. You can even add it to CUFFBUST using the steam workshop

[@ScientiaLudos]

Yes, level editors and mod support are a perfect example of a multiplier. I'm adding a level editor to CUFFBUST

[@bore_inc]

I thought this would be some small channel doing dev interviews... turns out we struck gold!

[@robinshengames]

This is good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[@AndrzejGieraltCreative]

Could you do a video on the details of optimizing for streamers/retention?

[@Mati-r6w]

What makes a game successful is marketing, youtubers abd your image

[@sdhority]

Ok for real though, what's behind the door?

[@Ochenter]

Hello. This is the first video of your Channel that I watched. I adore the rap singer snoop dog on your wall. 🙇🏻

[@iojourny]

Love this channel

[@The_Filosof]

What's behind this door ? No, I don't want to know...

[@blackdoc6320]

Cohesive artstyle is the only "Artstyle" that helps sell a game, still not a hook, but definitely is good. But even then sometimes jank really does sell.

[@swuffy464]

I watch every video you post

[@r8teful]

When you had to bring out the calculator to check what 1.5x2x2 was 💀 Keep up the great content, learning a lot from these videos. They're a blessing since I'm currently in the ideation phase

[@Evoleo]

It's just like Balatro's Chips x Mult!

[@funkysloth2902]

Wasn't the game awards a boost though? Surely that had more effect than anything else on wishlists

[@gameboardgames]

What's up with all the locks on the door lol, is your studio in Detroit?

[@cdarklock]

I can't focus. Like seriously tf is up with that door behind you. You have all those chains on it and it's boarded shut but I don't see the hinges, and if they're on the other side you are wasting your time

[@RealCoachMustafa]

It's to keep his room mate out while he's recording. His room mate is a gorilla.

[@BatiJuampe]

me 2, the door thing (that I want to think is a joke) is very distracting!

[@bigchunk9717]

Posted 40 seconds ago is wild early

[@Tymon0000]

I see you are a fan of Snoop Dog

[@PeterBrecska]

How do I know whats the perfect balance between effort category?

[@Iamjake1000]

In this video, my humble request is to know where you got your necklace.

[@timmygilbert4102]

bro! the concept of hooks is older than video games, we have been talking about hooks in video games since the magnavox odissey 😂

[@CubeofRubric]

Maybe talking about hooks and understanding them are two different things.🤔

[@timmygilbert4102]

@CubeofRubric ah yeah the whole industry are full of idiots, is that what you are implying? I was refering to when he attributed the introduction of hooks to a guy brian

[@papsterling8376]

@@timmygilbert4102 - 80/20 like any other industry. If you’re one of the people who knows everything, then good for you. If you want to piss on about who should get credit for introducing the concept, then piss on.

[@Nashfanfl13]

How do you increase the action rate? You never really explain that? I even re-watched and never really was expanded upon.

[@AdeelTariq0]

His concept vs execution video I guess. And the multiplier stuff he talked about.

[@hoax-games]

my sixth sense tells me that you are very exhausted and maybe close to getting burned out. i hope i am wrong and i hope you are doing well! to cheer you up a bit: bought choo-choo charles recently :P. best regards, kreshi

[@BlueGooGames]

Good morning from Sweden 😅 been working on our game for 6 years, time to find out how to make it succesful!

[@MechabitGames]

Step 1 is to not spend 6 years on a game

[@heyheythrowaway]

@@MechabitGames lmao gottem

[@FFTVYoutube]

You should have definitely not waited 6 years to start thinking about marketing for it..

[@R3lik5]

What’s the game about?

[@BlueGooGames]

@@R3lik5 Space Chef is an open-world cooking action adventure where you hunt, cook and deliver quirky food across the nebula. :)

[@LUX_4LIFE]

14:12 something trump would say

[@NotSleightgaming]

🤣

[@holy_cheese_man]

Nice vid

[@soirema]

hey i know that Chihuahua !

[@hydrocosmo]

oh just 10 million views on release date? so kind of you to lower the bar for the peasants.

[@ThousandairesClub]

*100 hours of gameplay makes it a success* 👌

[@HopperGameDevelopment]

Unfortunately couldn't stick around till the end this time. A bit too much rambling and over-explaining common sense.

[@nullx2368]

Common sense is what people don't know or ignore during development... Most studios and indie fail because they go against common sense

[@HopperGameDevelopment]

@ good point.

[@abuk95]

put it on a second monitor and play a game or draw while listening

[@h20dancing18]

Watch at 2x

[@AdobadoFantastico]

He's more successful than 99% of indies ever will be so I'd say it's valid to at least the majority of aspiring indies. It's worth exercising patience to try to understand veterans who have been places we haven't. A lot of the best knowledge is handed down person to person through often casual conversations.

[@ДимаК-в7е]

Your channel name contains a grammatical error.

[@ViniDevz]

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