Broke, Discouraged, and Terrified - He Hit Publish

So, okay, I would love to dive into a sort of game design discussion here.

And first, just get your thoughts on the incremental space as a whole.

I think we're in an interesting time where there's this sort of, like, kind of boom of...

the idea of incremental games being very successful right now.

A lot of people are jumping on that train.

So just overall, do you feel like the space is getting crowded? Is it the best time ever to make an incremental game? What's your sense there? I think the best time to make an

incremental was last year.

um however i don't think it's unprofitable a game called slots and diapers just came out and they're pulling the same numbers i did in launch week and that's you know two months after i released my game in a pretty now crowded genre the only thing is the in the same way that we had vampire survivors the moment that game came out loads of copycats happened But then you'll realize that the amount of money they made slow decreased.

However, the quality bar also was going further and further down.

That's the same thing I feel we're happening with incrementals is since Chris decided to make a video saying these are like the best things to make.

everyone is jumping on it but the problem is it's not quantity that's the problem it's the quality the lack of actual good game design and actually interesting mechanics i feel is where the problem is i don't think incrementals are dead or incrementals are less profitable i think the bar for entry is getting higher which it should be because nobody wants to play the 10000 and one node buster like no one wants to play that

Yeah.

Chris might just have too much power.

I mean, we might someone else has got to get in there and compete with him on the marketing beats.

I mean, no, Chris is the best.

But that is quite funny that if he says something, it carries so much weight.

Yeah.

So what were some of the things you did? All Hail the Orb.

Like it is one of the like silliest games I've seen of just like the premise.

Like you've got you've got these ducks in there.

So so tell me about like was that sort of zany fantasy part of how you decided to set yourself apart?

No.

So I started prototyping because I saw the concept of cultists and ducks did not happen at the same time.

I started prototyping with just cultist assets and just being able to spawn them in because I really liked a particular artist's 2D pack of cultists.

I was like, okay, I'm going to try and do something with this.