- RTS GAMES WITH CUSTOM GAMES LIKE WARCRAFT 3 UPGRADE
- RTS GAMES WITH CUSTOM GAMES LIKE WARCRAFT 3 SOFTWARE
Needing multiplayer and pathfinding are good points. I attribute this to these games taking 3x or 5x the art assets. The engines for these are nearly identical, and Zelda is just as much of a cultural touchstone as Mario. Notice how there are far fewer indie overhead adventure games than there are indie platformers. Isometric views take wildly more art assets than side view.
RTS GAMES WITH CUSTOM GAMES LIKE WARCRAFT 3 SOFTWARE
True top-down (allowing software rotation) is as cheap art-wise as side view is, but the only indie hit I can think of that used it was Hotline Miami. But most multiplayer games that do well for years after the release are highly competitive.
But you have to have friends who are into it.Īmong Us took of recently after years of barely surviving (probably thanks to the quarantine). Option 4 is the best because anything with friends is fun. But few people care about winning so I guess that's fine? Also it's not mainly marketed to kids so I'm more ok with it. It's also heavily pay2win because the best vehicles for their matchmaking rating can be only bought with real money.
RTS GAMES WITH CUSTOM GAMES LIKE WARCRAFT 3 UPGRADE
Option 3 is weird - people don't care about winning games in Warthunder, they only care about killing enough enemies to get virtual money to repair and upgrade their tanks. It can work for the game developer, but I consider it a dark design pattern aimed at extracting the maximum amount of money from addicted people (usually kids). Option 2 is best suited for casual/mobile/pay2win market. People still play starcraft 1 broodwar and age of empires 2. Option 1 discourages casuals, but makes for games with high engagement.
party games (you play with the same people repeatedly - see Among Us) no skill-based matchmaking (for example in Warthunder AFAIK matchmaking is based on the vehicles you drive not on how often you win your games)Ĥ. low skill ceiling (usually thanks to significant randomness - see Hearthstone)ģ. competitive (Starcraft, DOTA, LOL, CS:GO, etc.)Ģ. I've had high hopes for Iron Harvest and it clearly went for the casual/single player market and did pretty well, but not well enough.ġ. Risk is huge and required investment is enormous. And that's a VERY hard thing to do for an indie studio. So for a new RTS to compete it has to be better than Starcraft 2 in multiplayer and gameplay or at least in storytelling. Single player games that don't achieve cult status - are finished on the market after the first month. But they don't engage with the game enough to justify years of gameplay development, balancing, innovative mechanics - they mostly want nice cutscenes and good graphics and beliveable dialogs and plot.Īnd most of them won't even finish the game. The only remaining market for RTS are so called "casuals" that want single player experience. So what happens is - people check out the new game, and either get bored (it's too similar and worse) or get discouraged (it's too different to bother learning). So new games in the same genre have to compete against a game that was made by Blizzard in 2010 and constantly developed ever since. With multiplayer games people can play the same title forever if it's deep enough. In my opinion Starcraft 2 killed RTSes (just like Dota 2 and LOL killed MOBAs). This means there's an increasing amount of talent available in the wider gaming community for organizing tournaments and commentating. * The game randomizer community keeps building new community-run tournaments and fan commentated races. Indie RTS costs will go down as people experiment with that. It's very high-production pixel art, but more importantly it's only one unit facing.
* Tooth And Tail managed to look great while using pixel art. * People /are/ trying to make indie RTS games, more than I've ever seen before. I'm pretty sure that crowd is all in Roblox or modded Minecraft these days. * Even back in the heyday of RTS, everyone I knew played custom maps rather than the actual RTS. * Streamers rely on their ability to self-commentate, but nobody can play an RTS while talking. It's not like platformers where the world has accepted we can get away with pixel art forever. There hasn't been a breakout indie RTS, and nobody has established a default cheap art style for these. * RTS games are still pretty expensive to make well. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you may disagree with whether large studios should act this way, but that doesn't matter, because the observable fact is they do. * There hasn't been a huge RTS hit in ages, so large studios aren't going to push large chunks of cash into them. Some problems I'd note for any resurgence of the RTS genre:
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