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As costs have gone up, risk appetite has gone down. The end result is a lot of media that is technically excellent while being creatively vacant.
Cool Merch
https://old-game-dev-advice.creator-spring.com/
Chapters:
0:00 Back in MY Day...
0:32 Explore vs Exploit
0:55 We Didn't Knoew What We Were Doing in the 80s
1:19 We "Know" What a Gamer Is Now
2:05 Optimizing for the Same Thing
3:06 Cost Leads to Risk Aversion
4:42 Generative AI and Similarity
5:29 Indie Must Explore
6:31 AAA Should Too
7:48 Line Must Go Up
8:25 Eating Your Audience
9:38 Dear AAA
