What's the best way to make money off gamedev?

So, I consider 3 possible paths: 1. Make a good game and sell it online. This is hard because you first need to make a good game, and second you need to be lucky to gain any attention 2. Make AI slop phone shovelware This is cheap and easy. Little to no skill required, and the luck factor is partially compensated by sheer quantity of the games you make. Downsides include having to compete with millions of other shovelware games 3. Make offensive games and market them towards edgelords and nazis. The downsides are the fact that no platform will ever host your games and you'd probably have to monetize them via crypto donations. Also if you get too popular you'd get internet justice warriors attempting to dox you. Potentially profitable niche but seriously dangerous. Opinions and ideas?

>>93967 Are there Solarpunk games? Should def make one

We live in an attention-based economy now, so you should work on attaining some sort of presence online that you can use to wage slave. Alternatively you could try to break into the industry instead of working solo. I'm not sure what websites people use to network nowadays, but xitter is probably a good place to start.

Stream while you're making the game, it will draw attention to the game, get feedback from potential buyers, and pay while developing. You can setup some sponsorship system where people who pay a certain amount get to insert something into the game or whatever, appear as an NPC idk. No guarantees of course. Still need to drum up attention but streaming is a path to that. Also make it good.

>make a good game >this is hard Then don't make games. We don't need more retards contributing to the shovelware epidemic. Get a regular job, I guarantee you it's easier and you'll respect yourself more.

>>93976 I just want somebody to validate my desire to create Indian slaughter games

You should make a good game and then try to get a streamer to play it. There is no other way >AI slop Mobile games are over saturated and you'll never stand out with lazy AI slop. You'd be lucky to break even. >Make offensive game There are plenty of offensive games. You'd have to work pretty hard to get noticed. It would also have to be funny which is hard to do. You also don't want that soykaf attached to you because it'll make it harder for you to get a real job.

Weirdos need to be locking themselves in rooms en masse for years on end working on passion projects without ever questioning themselves for even a second. 99.9% of it will be hot garbage but this is how anything truly good ever got made. Stop being a pussy, go all in on option 1, ruin your fuarrrking life in the process, bring shame upon your family. Be the Ulillillia you want to see in the world.

>>93991 Holy truth nuke. The CIA will be killed by the A-10 Warthog, the gun of God.