Is it even possible to create a successful indie game without it being heavily derivative of existing game(s)?

Is it even possible to create a successful indie game without it being heavily derivative of existing game(s)?
I stay up at night wondering if video games are a solved medium, with every meaningful idea being already done before. It makes me feel sad.

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  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Japanese Soul Vs. Western Slop

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's because you're a moron who only plays videogames and watches weebshit. If you at least watched films or TV you'd broaden your horizons further than 80% of gamers and indie devs, but your shitty monkey brain isn't even capable of that.

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It’s extremely difficult for 1 person to make something new. They all used to make tech demos of new ideas but anything fleshed out takes a whole team of dudes

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    With indie games the influence tends to be more pastiche than plagiarism. It's more respectful to the source.

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    No.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Meira balls

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      SARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Meira? Balls.

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    no, but it doesn't matter
    just enjoy things on their own merits

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Holy FUARK...Sarai invented french maid dresses...

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Op the type of moronic motherfricker to think Art is over because the camera was invented

  10. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >I stay up at night wondering if video games are a solved medium
    I do hope this is a pasta, there has got to be a better way to spend your nights.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      anon do you know what a hyperbole is

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Hyper balls?
        What's that?

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I think he's talking about hyperbowl

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Meira's balls after they're filled with Kotohime's cum.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          what I got swingin'

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          What Meira got

  11. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  12. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    ITT: Idiots who don't understand all art is iterative

  13. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    is this the thread?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Hi there! My name is Eiki Shiki, your local Yamaxandu, and I OFFICIALLY approve this thread as Video Games!

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        sus

  14. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    where'e the ccpposter 🙁

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      he died on the way here

  15. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You are genuinely fricking moronic if you think Undertale is “heavily derivative” of Touhou

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Undertale is a VN/Jrpg/Bullet Hell hybrid

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      even I'm not this contrarian

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Wow, you’re even more moronic than OP

  16. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I will never forgive homosexual fox for stealing Sariel and turning her into shitty furrys.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Your series is reclining, grandpa. The furries won.

  17. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Touhou fans cannot recognize a picture of Marisa

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      bleaug

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      11 years when I was 18 I went to my first game/anime convention, I was on the free play setup and was playing some KoF13 with a friend or some randoms, a cute Marisa cosplayer a few years younger than me asked if she could play and we had a couple matches, I complimented her Marisa cosplay since I vaguely knew touhou characters from lurking for 3-4 years at that point and she just looked at me quizzacly, I asked "oh sorry, isn't that your costume?" she said she didn't know what the character was from and seemingly had never heard of touhou and then we went our seperate ways.

      Thanks for reading my blog.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Her name is ifunny-san

  18. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The last new idea was created in the year 923. Everything after is just remixes.

  19. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Can you even create anything that's not derivative these days? Everything's been done before. Everything made after 2000 has been just bastardizing already existing things. It's useless, like trying to come up with a genre of music that's not just mashing already existing ones together.

  20. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Play game, watch movie, listen to music or look at a drawing
    >Want to make something similar to that
    >Do so, making something that's influenced by the original, your own preferences and personal influences
    That's how all art works, more or less. If you have a problem with that, maybe you should stick to historical documentaries and non-fiction books.

  21. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    no invention, no idea has come out of nowhere, everything is iterative and done in steps and the same is true for video games.
    and people tend to forget that.

  22. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Is it even possible to create a successful indie game without it being heavily derivative of existing game(s)?
    b***h it's not possible to create anything without it being heavily derivative of existing media.
    There is nothing new under the sun.

  23. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What did you guys think about the collab song ZUN did with Toby fox https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxMatXvGM10&pp=ygUQdW4gb3dlbiB3YXMgaGVybw%3D%3D should’ve been megalovania or ASGORE

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      every time I think that I should try listening to it I am immediately struck with overwhelming apathy
      it's unreal how little I care about any of undertale's songs and it's also unreal how little I care about hearing yet another UN Owen arrange

  24. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Whats his endgoal?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Meira on the right

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Meira on the r-

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Why are all monsters like that?????

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >purple
          >mean girl
          >shota boyfriend
          >was going to have a ponytail
          Yup. I'm thinking she's Meira.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >t. didn't even play Undertale Yellow

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              I did.
              Ceroballs is like Junko, not Meira.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Wrong again
                >The only thing going on in comparison is the fox part and losing their offspring, Junko is no moron or even a shitty mother that would use her child as lab rat
                >Moodiness and incompetence fits Meira more, on top of design going on
                >also wannabe shrine maiden

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      You just know
      https://files.catbox.moe/wv3rrx.jpg

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        thanks koibro very cool

  25. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >jap slop vs Western soul

  26. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    LoZ had been done before. just apply cool/unique aesthetics to the same ol' stories.

  27. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, but people became extremely moronic and creatively bankrupted after the 2010s for some reason.

  28. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You feel so good each time you hop on my balls

  29. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    meira knotted wiener

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