You guys are brave, games are probably the scariest product any entrepreneur can make.
I mean it. It's literally one of the scariest products.
For many reasons too! Like:
- Takes more time to complete one product than 99% of any products that exist (of course I don't mean construction or infrastructure or whatever, I mean stuff that an entrepreneur or small company can produce)
- What consumers want is hard to predict. It's very hard to predict what game is good and will sell before investing a considerable amount of time into it.
- Because of 1 and 2 it means that each product is a huge risk too. Investing years of your life into something that may very likely flop.
It's kinda crazy that indie games exist at all. These things take literal years to develop, there's no product out there more time-consuming. I mean at least if you build a house over a few years, someone will buy that damn house. No such guarantee with games. It's crazy, literally the scariest thing to do as a career.