Is possible for a single guy to make something that makes more money than AAA games?

Is possible for a single guy to make something that makes more money than AAA games?

notch?

money making potential and dev costs don't have a linear relationship, so yes
shit thread

Theoretically yes.
It's like winning the lottery though and you also need to be skilled and dedicated so that's like 'no' for 99.999% Sup Forumstards.

pubg

That Stardew Valley guy probably made more than Battleborne and Lawbreakers

Minecraft. I also imagine Toby Fox made a pretty good chunk of change off Undertale.

notch didn't make minecraft singlehandedly, now back to your containment board /vip/haggot

>single guy
Brendan is barely even a developer on it

he was the one to walk away with the money

If you want to get rich the last thing you should be doing is trying to make a solo videogame, you do that kind of work because you have a passion for it even though you know you'll most likely fail

>Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson

if you make a game that's successful on your own you will make more moeny than an AAA dev because they have to pay all their employees

Now post the next sentence after that, retard.

Absolutely, you just have to get lucky. The total lack of overhead aside from the essentials you already needed helps.

OP never specified what that something is.

later hired people to work on the game he single handedly created yes

minecraft

Braid?

>than triple AAA games?
Fuck retarded frog poster

He had other people develop it moron, that's the entire reason it made any money at all.

Did the other devs even add anything of value to the game?

Just maek a new durg.

notch quit working on minecraft many years before it was sold to microsoft

he had other people help continue development after it already picked up traction you fucking mongoloid

The entire reason it was made was because of Notch, Developers are replaceable but people like Notch are not.

Yes, yes everyone knows he sold it out but It would have made no money and would have fell into obscurity like dwarf fortress if mojang didn't take over, you're being disingenuous if you think he did everything by himself.

>fell into obscurity
>dorf fort

you hwat

I know that. I want to know what the others did before the game was "finished" in late 2011. It was already a success while it was still in Beta, when Notch did most of the work.

He came up with the idea, That's all that matters.

come on son
nope

The game was huge before Mojang (the company he made) took over

It was huge for autists, yes, how much money was notch making before he started with mojang?

It could be anything, doesn't have to be a game.

Not especially no. But it's like comparing how much money one guy can make gold mining compared to how much an entire corporation can make gold mining; it's a false and stupid comparison.

The one guy can still make a great game that's small in scope and has a dedicated fanbase.

you aren't even arguing the best meme you can. he literally stole infiniminer's concept and i think some of the code too but don't quote me on that and left the dude who made that out to dry

Well I just leave the conspiracy theory's to Sup Forums

Yeah, for example in 2016...
>Fallout 4 made $40 million
>Stardew Valley made $20 million
Even though Stardew Valley only made half of what Fallout 4, made remember that...
>Fallout 4 had a dev team of over 100 people
>Stardew Valley was made by one guy

Why Sup Forums? It's just a theory...


a game theory...

>pubg out of nowhere
>minecraft out of nowhere
>SC and other non-english mobile studios literally out of nowhere
>AAA industry is stagnant and indie devs are still in copycat mode
the time is now, you just need to make something so obvious that it should've been done a decade ago like Notch had done with Minecraft

Concernedape, Toby Fox, and Johnathsn Blow are examples

Millions