Video Game Development - Is There a One Person Project?

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Sarde valley is such a wild, like, outlier in terms of overall video game making. You need dedicated programmers, you need dedicated marketing people to sell it and get the word out. It's also so rare that you ever have one person or a couple people that can do every job that's required to make a successful video game. And given when you have a project that has like, a lot of promise, a, it makes sense to throw money behind it.

The annual video game deluge has begun. This week, we played not one, not two, but three inventive new games. Arcade Paradise asks players to split their time between running a laundromat and launching a local arcade. Rollerdrome mixes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with Max Payne. And Drainus is to R-Type what Stardew Valley is to Harvest Moon. What does that mean? Listen to the show and find out!

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