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I appreciate your videos

The only gamedev channel that I get legitimate laughs out of. ‘Your all just a bunch of sweaty dudes in your 30’s and 40’s’ Can confirm: 35m, sweating my ass off over here

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your journey.

Are you allowed to sell your commissions ?

I like how I cant add this video to a playlist like I can every other video

"When people can afford more groceries"... lmao When people stop arguing over there being more than two genders, and stop listening to the lies and propaganda in news and media. When people pull their heads out of their phones, turn off the hate and stupidity, and wake the fuck up. Then groceries will become affordable again... Don't pretend like the shit state of things will magically fix itself. Stupid people, allowing it, and helping it to happen needs to stop, for things to get better. In essence humanity has to evolve for groceries to become more affordable.

EIGHT HOURS a WEEK!? How can you get anything done in that amount of time?

Thanks for checking on us in the beginning like that, lol. I finished my goal for the day and am just taking a break before putting in some extra.

37:37 "I know people that don't like the Cuphead style" WHO?!

14:05 half true, it's true that half of the industry seems uninspired, but it works, and people's life depends on it. Making a new inspiration goes 2 way, 1 is success another is just meh.

i don't understand, Isn't there multiple employees in your studio? How did you convince them all to work for free for the past 2 years? if not for free what are they getting paid and how are you guys getting the money to pay them? especially in belgium where the average salary is a couple of grand a month X all biteme games employees?

I look at the very first number and think 61k of gross revenue sounds pretty good. then I hear it's 61 dollars, not 61k 💀

Difficulty settings is relative to your own game, and most importantly how you intend to "tweak" that difficulty. There is the lazy way and the dedicated way. The easy way is just tweaking numbers, which is the less costly way to do and allow players to enjoy your game even if they are not good at it, while the dedicated way is like adding more enemies, new enemy variants, new endings, more level branches or level variations the higher the difficulty is, which requires rebalancing a whole new game for each settings you want, but add a lot to the replayability of the game, and players will be eager to replay in harder mode to discover new things. In term of value, the lazy way is a A tier to me. Easy to implement and allow every players to enjoy your game whatever their gaming skill are, so it should be implemented everytime. Maybe not right during early access, but at least for your game release. The dedicated way is between C tier to me. It can meaningfully extend your game lifetime and enjoyability and raise your game to the "memorable" kind by the sheer quantity of experience you offer to the player, but it will require much more development which you make you go over budget easily. But that can push your game from "game that try to please everyone" to "game that offer an experience to everyone".

Maybe if you make another one you can rate life-sim, tycoons or management games or like factory games (think factorio, satisfactory or shapez), sandbox. And what if you make an adventure game without the action part? Kinda like Sable or Journey. Also what genre would something like Spiritfarer be, is it like a narrative + platformer + managment? Combining genres adds so much possibilities!

The sooner you realise Unity is dying, the better it is for you and your studio.

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your assets are also quite niche. If you made more generalised assets that could be used in a variety of genres, I bet you would see a lot more traction.

this is just typical of the Unity experience unfortunately. Their ability to communicate how something is working is an absolute disaster. My example is their change to how they handle ad payments at the start of this year. A ticket logged in late February has STILL not been responded to. There are so, so, so many examples of things that just dont work the way you would expect them to, and there is never a good reason for it. Its crazy. So much focus on releasing the next version of the engine, but literally no focus on back-end support for developers outside of the engine.

For me the item assets looked good, yet those tilesets and shading in your game, personally to me they look bad. They could be fixed pretty easily I think, though the more I look at them the worse they get to me. Just my opinion of course

I believe that if the pixel art were well-executed, they would sell more. Pixel art follows drawing rules that are not applied in your assets

If Unity just let people add stuff to their store without a review process people would hate that too because then the quality would be terrible. Its like no matter what they do people will hate it. BTW, I've been selling on the asset store for around 10 years, it has always taken multiple weeks to get something reviewed. Not that that makes it better, but they have 100's of submissions daily. You can become massive on the Unity store, but it takes a lot of time. I've been doing it a very long time, and I only make about 500 USD per month. Also, check out Game Dev Market for quick reviews and decent sales, I started selling there this year and its not been too bad. Also Cubebrush.

let's work on that algo, since my prev comment had a link, here's the same comment without the link, i was thinking the difference in sales could be attributed to the asset being more of a 2d pixel art thing suited for itch rather than a 3d asset for unity, perhaps there isn't much demand for sprite assets on unity

i use cry engine for my game dev and i ll tell everyone who had more than 1 yrs of exp bcz it mades a hugh graphic games with a medium end pc so it good engine for Realistic graphic

I think selling assets is just...a hard market in general. You have to hit the most desirable niche and simultaneously be above the competition while being unique enough to out perform the popular ones. Like for example, you probably couldn't compete with Synty if you wanted to sell low poly 3d models, it would just be too hard to do what they do but better and differently. But getting a specific niche could be useful? I dont know, looking at the number of sales on most asset packs I think the ones that actually make money are like... code and system functionality stuff. Like terrain editors and stuff that's productive. Simple because gamers typical aim for an unique look and the people buying assets typically do what you did if they are serious, hire someone for custom stuff, or make it themselves. So the people buying packs are almost always less serious and thus... less funded, so their are fewer buyers. And these things exist for a small market, just game devs. So, it's like a small sunset of a small market that buy this stuff already. It's simply not the most lucrative market. Especially with how much people can get for free already. But it's easily a mini income stream. For the right person. Thanks for the coverage.

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answering the title of the right up front and telling people is okay to stop the video is very noble, but the youtube's algorithm will not think that way. With so many people watching just 10 seconds of a 11 minute video, this will really affect its engament and might even affect the channel as a whole. I would avoid doing big videos like that if you want to reach more people.

The lack of sales from Unity is actually really crazy.

I didn't know Itch had assets. This will be massively useful as a gamedev, enginedev, and soon-to-be artist. Also, a lot of Unity assets aren't Unity-only. Check the license of each asset, and you may be surprised.

Respect for immediately answering the title question

Unity just throwin upcharges on shit with no notice to the buyer OR the seller, eh? The scumminess just don't stop from them

I love how you always answer the title right away, rather than having to skip through half the video to find it.

The problem with really unique art is that you have to sell enough that people can make a game out of it. you buy the tilesets, you buy the icons....then what? You need to hire someone to do the other stuff that matches that unique art. It is why syntry is so successful, they have an art style, but there is so much available that you can build a whole game out if it.

Like with Steam, the Unity Store has a meta! I saw your assets when they hit first the Store, so here's my take as a "pro" asset-buyer :) 1- 2D art, especially pixel-art, has been flooding the store due to AI. Every week there are dozens of new packs with 100s of sprites. It's so bad that even established artists have been complaining that their sales are tanking. 1a - Customers are also getting more cautious, due to pirates/rips and untagged AI. Now I pretty much stick to only the 2d artists I've bought from in the past. 2- Timing sucked - they were running a massive 70% off sale for most of that period you were live. People will "Favorite" assets, or stash them in their cart for *months/years* waiting for them to go on sale. Or will hoard them waiting for one of the Store-wide discounts that requires a minimum cart-value to qualify for. So you were suddenly competing with the most popular assets on the whole Store, as well as everything folks were interested in since maybe the big Winter/December sale. 3- Code assets perform better than art assets, always. People value code more, so they will pay higher prices even for very simple "one-liners" or things that are already built-in to the Unity API. There are also a lot of people who assume with pixel art, "Oh, I could do that / It's easy", so even if it's amazing, they will balk at paying $5-8 USD. 4- Your SEO is not-great. Unity's Store search is tag-based and name-based, and your asset names are super-generic. You're trying to paint a picture in someone's mind of the game they could make, so choose a title that someone making that kind of game would use / be searching for. Don't waste your title on "Pixel Art", just use the tag. (Also your capsules were hard to read - check out some other top creators in pixel-art and see how they do it. Banners/watermarks with your studio name/logo are good too.) 5- New creators always get more scrutiny. Same applies for mobile app stores. 6wks is crazy, but you'd have to ask other Store creators (use the forum!) what the normal period is. Later uploads probably will be faster. 6- More of an opinion, but if the art wasn't grabbing people in game-form, it's even harder to do so as standalone assets. Definitely go discuss your concerns on the Creator forum, and see what aspects are normal, and what was weird. BiteMe seems to be a more code-oriented team, and you are already familiar with Unity, so maybe focus on that strength. Generic art is just not your competitive advantage. Good luck!

they show as 7_99 and 4_99 for me (non-VAT location) on the unity asset store.

TL;DR $61.91 😉

Tip: Make the wooden bridge planks little bit shorter. Vertical part looks too long and that's why it is not a cosy bridge 😁 PS. Great video btw.👍

I waited like two months and unity still declined me because of quality control reasons, which I understand, but the reasons were still vague. It all lacks proper and clear documentation. One of the QC reasons i can remember was "obvious seam markings" which is A. subjective (I thought they looked fine and the seams really weren't that noticeable) and B. I had like 30 models included in that package, so which objects specifically had seam issues? I would have had no idea.

itch-i-oh? I always called it itshiow

Why not release the game on a smaller scope instead of canceling? You've already paid the fee for the Steam game page. With nearly a thousand wishlists, I don't see any reason to cancel, considering you've already completed a good portion of the game anyway.

I have two gamedev tools and a game on itch and the tools sell ok(the game very rarely sells) But Itch is so easy to use, its so user friendly, Its amazing in every way. I wish steam was more like it(because lets face it steam is a pain behind the scenes)

This video was very insightful. I see so many good assets on the Unity store and they only have like 5 reviews and it makes me wonder how well they sell on there.

Imho being a "fulltime gamedev" doesn't have to mean to start a business. Work on your skills, get good and then get hired in a professional studio making real games. Running a business usually takes totally different things than the ones that make up a good developer.

I love it when tubers answer the question in the title straight of. I'll listen to the break down but don't drag out the answer

yeah. thnx for keeping it direct. have a like. and a comment too. gotta go now though (tutorial madness)

I made an asset for a random guy in a couple of hours for free and he loved it, begged me to post it on Unity Asset Store.. I posted it after a month, and things changed for me FOREVER, Unity put my asset into weekly sales through which I was able to sustain myself for a whole YEAR.! It sold over a few thousand copies in just 7 days and is still selling to this day...! 💌 Asset Store has huge money making opportunities but sometimes it is mostly about luck.

WTF u sell something that you buy... I don't think that's very ethical.... Or I didn't understand correctly

First one to comment! Thanks for sharing the info.

NOTES: 1) Turns out Unity doesn't want to scam me, but my European mind just can't comprehind that they add the VAT on top of the price that I configure already. I configured the price of our assets, assuming the 30% cut and then another cut for the VAT. This isn't the case however, with countries such as the US reporting the correct rate of $7.99. I would still prefer being able to configure a single price for all countries, and then have VAT go out of that, but that may just be personal preference from being from Europe. 2)Throughout editing this video I realized that I have different pricing configured for our Asian Garden Tileset, $6.99 on itch vs $7.99 on Unity. However, I don't think that this has had any impact on sales numbers or driven people to buy on itch vs. Unity, as neither store page refers to the other. Changing the Unity price to be aligned with itch.io at $6.99 would require me to submit a change and wait another 6 weeks on approval.

Bros, Rivals of Aether was a hit and it was developed with Game Maker. It’s a game that takes GM to its limit, maybe even a little beyond, but shows the flexibility

I have always had a game design mindset, i have done a lot of writing for tabletop games and designed my own board games, cards games, and the like. I've been studying art, music, and writing for a very long time, but only just now getting into coding and learning how to use game engines. I work two jobs to make ends meet, and most of my free time is taken up trying to keep my head on straight, but I really want to learn to develop games. I appreciate the advice you gave in this video it does help and, while I wish I could be the guy to drop everything and run into game design, I greatly appreciate the encouragement that it is possible to work full time and still find the time to learn and grow and create.