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Feedback Undervaluing your game

Zurtan · 2020-10-13T19:43:46

(I am not sure if it belongs here or in Beginners) I find that feedback from other people might crush your faith in your own game. A game developer might overvalue his own game, but others might undervalue his game. Especially other indie game developers. Usually you don't want to get feedback from other indie developers. Because many of them believe they are great designers and have to prove to themselves and others they know exactly what is a good game. They also might have a Dunning Kruger effect of desiring to make a perfect game, so they will many times undervalue your game. Not only that, most indie developers spend a lot of time developing games, so they aren't playing as much games as a gamer who is not a developer. Gamers have a lot less interest to trash other developers' work. So what I suggest is if you want feedback fro your game, find communties or forums of gamers who like the kind of game you make, and ask them. Gamers who like a certain genre are very knowledgeable about the said genre. They probably know about it a lot more than you do, because they spend a lot more time than you playing that genre. And again, even if you think you can ignore others soul crushing feedback, it might get into you and make you believe your game is worth less than it really is. Some games might need some work to shine. More than once I felt like abandoning games that if I have invested more time in them, they might have turned out a lot more succesful. So be careful of other indie developers feedback.