Little FYI for (indie) game developers..

There is nothing wrong with using store bought / free assets for your game️

I often hear from developers that it's not okay because everything has to be "unique" and while I do get that..

...having a good game is way more important.

99.99991% of the players who play your game are not developers and do not know / reconize it's store assets

There is a reason people spend a lot of time creating those assets, REAL artwork, pay them for it..

Little FYI for (indie) game developers..

There is nothing wrong with using store bought / free assets for your game️

I often hear from developers that it's not okay because everything has to be "unique" and while I do get that..

...having a good game is way more important.

99.99991% of the players who play your game are not developers and do not know / reconize it's store assets

There is a reason people spend a lot of time creating those assets, REAL artwork, pay them for it..

Ofc there is also the other side where a game is store assets alone without any modification and I am fully against this

It's called an "asset flip" and it gives developers who are using assets for their game a bad name..

There is a LOT to game development, do not underestimate that stuff lol

@stux Sounds like people taking J. Stephanie Sterling too far. Some years ago, they coined the term "asset flip" for a "game" made by buying a pre-made level and selling it as-is as a new game, rather than building something on it. The Internet being what it is, a whole lot of people started using it for any game that had any store-bought models, textures, or sounds, or even when devs reüse stuff they made themselves for other projects.

Little FYI for (indie) game developers..

There is nothing wrong with using store bought / free assets for your game️

I often hear from developers that it's not okay because everything has to be "unique" and while I do get that..

...having a good game is way more important.

99.99991% of the players who play your game are not developers and do not know / reconize it's store assets

There is a reason people spend a lot of time creating those assets, REAL artwork, pay them for it..

Little FYI for (indie) game developers..

There is nothing wrong with using store bought / free assets for your game️

I often hear from developers that it's not okay because everything has to be "unique" and while I do get that..

...having a good game is way more important.

99.99991% of the players who play your game are not developers and do not know / reconize it's store assets

There is a reason people spend a lot of time creating those assets, REAL artwork, pay them for it..

For my current MMO game I use store-assets alone since I am not a 3D artist (yet)

I got them on sale so everything has a licence as it should!

On the other hand, EVERY single function is written from scratch, no templates, no plugins, all my code

@stux Sell out. I bet you also use a compiler that you didn't write from scratch, on a CPU that you didn't carve out of sand by hand.