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@rlier23 @ninja8tyu cave story and touhou are rare breeds. those are true solo devs who even built their engines themselves.

@ninja8tyu it depends on how semantic you want to get.

can you make a game without employing or commissioning anyone else? yeah definitely. for the vast majority of people though, they're still going to be relying on a lot of things that other people have made, and the extent of that just depends on how semantic you want to get.

a lot of games made by "solo devs" have someone else who made the music, or they have voice actors, or there is some art that was done by a third party. if you want to go even deeper, they didn't contribute to the engine they built the game in, or they're using plugins other people wrote for the engine. even testers could constitute as someone not being a solo dev.

i've made a game "on my own" before, called 3rogues. it still uses some plugins other people made and artwork i commissioned. when does a game go from being "solo dev" to SOLO DEV?

i think ZUN is a pretty good example of an actual solo dev. he makes all the art, music, and even the engine itself. few people have that sort of skill, let alone work ethic, though. people sometimes refer to toby fox as a solo dev, but he's not.

@Matty this is actually one of the better ones i've seen

lol, testing out the blackjack system. i went broke xD beautiful, working just as intended.

@arc yeah dude, even just a short amount of time is good. i found that, when i had basically no motivation, just dedicating that 15-30 minutes every day actually increased my motivation A LOT.

@jeff let's make my dumb shit seem even dumber by copying someone who was dumb to make her look dumb while making myself look dumber in the process...

@Terry loli gf will become nazi gf eventually

@rosey have fun :)

@jjetty they must have used a perfect reference for this

@Shadowman311 I heard someone say "vtubers are like Muppets but anime" xD I love the Muppets so I guess that checks out.

Tbh the only ones I really watch at any level of consistency are Gura and Limes, but I watched their stuff before they became vtubers anyway

I like their antics which is why clips are funny, but I hardly ever watch full streams. That's reserved to only a very small handful of people.

@sjw the only good thing about it is that I actually get to perform

@sjw I'm just a cold person in general I hate the heat.

@sjw what's NG? Nigga gram?