Comment by egypturnash
13 hours ago
I am an artist. I have friends who like to code. I could leverage talking to my friends and saying "hey anyone wanna fool around and make some games". I could get Unreal and one of the 800 game templates available on their store for prices ranging from $0 to a few hundred bucks and start plopping my art in there and fiddling around. There's a bazillion art assets on there for the programmer with no art skills, too. And there's a section on the Unreal forums for people to say "hey I have this set of skills, who wants to make a game with me?".
Or we could all just generate a bunch of completely unmaintanable code or some uncopyrightable art, sounds great.
Your unpaid friend or a Unity game template is unlikely to be enough to compete with medium+ scope games
Can't forget animation or sound either. Someone needs to work on the actual game design too! Whose job is it for the marketing? Hope someone has video editing skills to show it off well. Who even did the market research at the start?
It's.. a lot. So normally you have to reallllyyy simplify and constrain what you're capable of
AI might change that. Not now of course but one day?