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1. smugumin😭💢 (smugumin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:03:45 JST smugumin😭💢
   What's the best game engine to start making and selling games as a solo dev?
   
   Here's a list of popular games (with the arbitrary metric of "smugumin can recognize them") made by a solo dev, broken down by engine:
   
   -UNITY
   Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
   Thomas Was Alone
   Return of the Obra Dinn
   Helltaker
   Chillas Art Slop? 2 asian dudes in Unity.
   That sissyphus game? Unity.
   
   -RPG Maker:
   Andy And Leyley
   Lisa?
   
   -GameMakerStudio:
   Undertale (not actually made by 1 person)
   
   -Godot:
   Cruelty Squad?
   
   -Unreal:
   Could not find any. Just copy Only Up and Chained Together i guess.
   
   Looks clear to me what the best game engine is :jahy_smug:
   "B-But what about making your own en-" No.
   
   Here's some dude getting rich off of rageslop for normies by just copying getting over it in Unity:
   youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_Te-uaPRw&t=8m10s
   • Lapin (lapin@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:03:44 JST Lapin

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     @smugumin
     >-RPG Maker:
     >Andy And Leyley
     >Lisa?
     you’re only listing western devs?

   • smugumin😭💢 (smugumin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:07:42 JST smugumin😭💢

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     • Lapin
     @lapin idk any eastern devs also i can't even confirm if the western ones are actually solo, theres no way i can do it for easterns
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   • Lapin (lapin@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:14:06 JST Lapin

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     @smugumin
     while i couldn’t confirm them myself, i think it’s reasonable to assume that just based from the length and content alone, most of games made by rpg maker are made by a solo dev until explicitly proven otherwise

     ofc you’d then be limited to making an actual rpg game, or a horror game, or both at the same time, but i think there’s still potential sales to be had within that niche*

     *source: me

   • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡 (moebritannica@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:23:16 JST 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡

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     @smugumin Genshin Impact is made using Unity
   • smugumin😭💢 (smugumin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:33:08 JST smugumin😭💢

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     • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡
     @MoeBritannica :tamamo_dumb: perhaps godot isnt so bad after all
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   • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡 (moebritannica@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:37:39 JST 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡

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     • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡
     @smugumin interesting enough, Blue Archive uses Unity as its game engine. I guess most eastern devs uses Unity as a standard.
     https://www.mobygames.com/game/175548/blue-archive/
     
     The only game I know made by eastern devs using Unreal is Black Myth Wukong
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   • :gura_sus: 1e+6 litres :flag_china: (kilostere@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 10:43:15 JST :gura_sus: 1e+6 litres :flag_china:

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     • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡
     @MoeBritannica @smugumin
     so does umamusume
     and unity is real easy to rip assets from :satania_smug:
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   • Cunnyoisseur :NSFW_Stamp: (cunnyoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 11:00:55 JST Cunnyoisseur :NSFW_Stamp:

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     @smugumin >What's the best game engine to start making
     You're probably going to sample a few tutorials without committing too hard, then pick the most comfortable one
     >and selling games as a solo dev?
     That part is about licensing autism (how much would you owe the engine) along with how lenient or easy to use the platform (steam, itch.io - pic related) is.
     You'll still need a game that people -or unsupervised children with access to credit cards, see yanderedev- want to pay for. Also like that retard from youtube, piratesoftware says: "don't quit your real job".
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   • 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡 (moebritannica@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 11:14:15 JST 🛡 ⚔️ McCreeaboo ⚔️ 🛡

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     • :gura_sus: 1e+6 litres :flag_china:
     @kilostere @smugumin :chocola_wha:
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