There is zero reason to wait on your idea. Creating a game by yourself was not for the faint of heart. Now everything is changing. With vast amounts of available tools and resources, and with the indie game market thriving, it’s never been a better time for you to make a game then right now.
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Our ever evolving guides and informational posts will help take you down the path of least resistance to bring your game to life. With our 10+ years experience in development, we can fast track you to success.
We have completely migrated to developing in Unity in the last 5 years and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve been using the Unity Asset Store just as long and are still discovering new gems everyday!
⚔️ Top Down ARPG
With only a few good games that stand out in this genre, the world needs more indie takes on this game style.
Get started on building your Diablo style ARPG!
⚒ Real Time Strategy
Adrenaline pumping and addictive. Fast clicking mayhem and a battle of wits. Check out essential resources to get started.
Start building your RTS vision now!
🔫 First Person Shooter
The popular genre that keeps on giving. Little more of a crowded market, but the gems shine though.
Start building your ideal FPS now!
🎆 Tower Defense
Easy to prototype and scale, this genre has so many attributes that make it a great starter game for a small company or indie developers.
Start building your Tower Defense game now!
🗺️ Open World
There are many great games with this base theme, but that doesn’t stop a great execution of this type of game from getting noticed.
Start building your Open World type game now!
🚀 Side Scroller
One of the earliest forms of a graphics driven game, it still holds it’s charm as a genre this day. Not to mention a highly recommended game type for first time devs to start with. Plenty of existing assets can make playable games fairly quickly.
Start building a Side Scrolling game now!
🏹 First Person RPG
Fun and immersive, this game type has been popular since the introduction of the very first graphics drivers.
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🏆 Battle Royale
Standing as the king of games, the recent genre that has taken the world by storm. Bigger technical hurdles to overcome with this type, so it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. It should be noted though that this genre was created by a single person. See what it takes to build a Battle Royale type game.
🏞️ MMORPG
Bigger technical hurdles to overcome with this game type. So it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. But going into it with that mindset, you can definitely build a fun prototype.
Start building an MMORPG today!
Other Considerations
Sometimes game types overlap. Or certain assets work in multiple game formats. These are some other aspects to consider when developing your amazing game idea.
🛡️ RPG Essentials
There are plenty of resources that work for all types of RPG’s. Highly recommended that you look over this comprehensive list of essentials for this game type.
See what we would consider when building an RPG.
👾 Pixel Graphics / Retro
The days of 8-bit,16-bit, and 32-bit machines with their nostalgic games. This particular look has aged much better than their early three dimensional counter parts. If you are thinking about having this ageless look in your project, look no further.
See our comprehensive pixel essentials list!
🥽 VR Essentials
You know what’s surprising about making a VR game? It’s only a few extra steps more than your typical 3D game. It’s fairly easy to launch a VR title. The trick is having an idea that is both catchy for VR players and doesn’t cause motion sickness.
Check out our comprehensive guide to everything VR!
❓ Don’t Have an Idea?
Believe it or not, sometimes starting off with a clean slate is the best way to go into the gaming market. We can’t count the number of times we were inputting assets, physics, or objects into our project and discovering another fun type of game we could have been making instead.
Check out our ideas to help inspire you!
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