🍀 Resources Four Games

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A collection of a formula and resources we find helpful for making games.

🍀 Marketing | 🎨 Pixel Art & Color | 🧊 3D & Voxel | 🖼 Icons & Fonts | 🔊 Audio | 📼 Video

The Game Success Formula

# Success = Execution * MarketFit * Appeal
success = (core * polish) * (genre * trend) * (art * social)

1. Execution (core * polish)

• Core
  • if the core game isn't fun nothing else matters.
• Polish
  • how good it feels to do things.
  • Polish & Game Feel Demo.

2. Market Fit (genre * trend)

• Genre
  • the "audience ceiling." Statistically, 3D games have the highest reach.
• Trend
  • Port successful formulas from User-Generated Content (Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite) to Steam.
  • Combine proven media and concepts (e.g., Breaking Bad / Schedule I)
  • Replicate new trends fast before they are saturated

3. Appeal (art * social)

• Art
  • just like the woman in the red dress, art gets your attention and stops the scroll.
• Social
  • Co-op Local: The most attainable for beginners, though not applicable to all genres.
  • Online: The biggest success multiplier, but the highest difficulty (adds 2x development time or more).

- Jonas Tyroller

- Chris Zukowski

Important

These are guidelines, not absolutes. Hit as many as you can, but understand that game development is unpredictable. Use this formula as a strategic compass to guide your decisions, not as rigid requirements. Making something you enjoy working on is going to give you higher life enjoyment & satisfaction.

🍀 Marketing

📜 Steam page

• Steam capsule
• Steam Tag Helper - BiteMe Games
• Explainer style trailer - Jonas Tyroller
• Discord bot for Steam Reviews

🧅 Localization

• localizedirect
• dead? localizor

🎟️ Marketing

• Influencer outreach who plays games
• Twitch analytics
• Get more wishists - BiteMe Games
• Marketing advice creator of Choo-Choo Charles

🎨 Pixel Art & Color

📚 Resources

• Lospec Palette List
• Supercell Brand Guidelines

🎯 Strategy

sum 16x16 and 2-8 colors half for UI

• Jackie Codes interview Pierre Vandermaesen

🛠 Tools

• Aseprite

🧊 3D & Voxel

📚 Resources

• Godot Asset Store
• Fab
• Kenney
• poly.pizza
• 2.5D Conradical

🎯 Strategy

cohesive art style for all assets most important

🛠 Tools

• Blender

• MagicaVoxel
  • Like blender more and blender has ways to turn mesh into voxel but less precision

🖼 Icons & Fonts

📚 Resources

• game-icons.net
• google icons
• google fonts
• fontawesome

🎯 Strategy

love game icons try to use as much as possible

🔊 Audio

📚 Resources

• freesound
• zapsplat
• sfxr

🛠 Tools

• REAPER
  • Popular and free trial and affordable but not free and open source

📼 Video

📚 Resources

• Obs Studio
  • Open source recording software available on Steam for in-game recording i recommend the engines Movie Recorder to get a stable recording.
• Davinci Resolve
  • Pros good free version, cons not fully free and open source
• Blender
  • Has a video editor thats getting better

In development godot template

• https://github.com/fourgames/template