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I Want Better Games With Worse Graphics And I'm Not Kidding - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As inflation continues to outpace wages, surely more people will start preferring this. $1000 for a gpu is a joke. If I ever develop an indie game my target system is going to be like, a 1.6ghz core i3 and garden variety basic opengl capable graphics card.

[–] Aux 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are constant high end GPU shortages, $1,000 is too cheap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

idk, maybe we need to figure out how to get by with basic laptop opengl graphics. An Intel HD 4000 would have been a groundbreaking graphics card in 2005 but today you can barely run a unity project with one. More serious effort needs to go into optimization and efficiency I think and if that means everything has to have 2005 era graphics (which aren't even that bad) then that's what has to be done.

Making your own game engine an using open source 3d engine then filling in the rest is too much work for most indie devs but as enshitification continues this will eventually stop being the case. Tux kart was made this way and it can run on a potato.

[–] Aux 0 points 6 months ago

No one wants to play potato games. And this is evident by the shortage of high end GPUs. People want better graphics and people have the money for GPUs. If you check Steam stats, then the top 15 cards are all 3060, 4060, 3070, 4070, and 3080. Steam has 132m active monthly users and 2% of their users have 3080 cards. That's over 2.6m people with a high end card.

There are only 0.2% of Intel HD 4000 users. When you combine all the mid and high end GPU users it becomes obvious that there's absolutely no point making games for Intel HD 4000.