{"id":16790,"date":"2026-08-20T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:39:37","slug":"what-is-proving-to-be-successful-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16790","title":{"rendered":"What is proving to be successful in games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Anyone can make that next hit game and find success. There\u2019s always gonna be the player base and people who want an amazing game, right? That\u2019s not going away. What is going away is opportunities: publishing, funding, mid-sized studios and small studios who can sustain that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaman also said that developers should be willing to take a risk in releasing something that is not polished, but rather is focused on fun.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/peak-co-creator-anyone-can-make-the-next-big-hit-but-there-are-few-opportunities-for-developers\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/peak-co-creator-anyone-can-make-the-next-big-hit-but-there-are-few-opportunities-for-developers\">Nick Kaman<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems to be exactly what has been winning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1u7cl6q\/meccha_chameleon_earned_almost_10_million_dollars\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1u7cl6q\/meccha_chameleon_earned_almost_10_million_dollars\/\">Viral, low-quality games like Meccha Chameleon pulled in $10 million in  that was made by 2 guys in just 2 months<\/a> from a simple idea that went viral when huge multi-year, multi-million dollar games are closing studios in just months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anyone can make that next hit game and find success. There\u2019s always gonna be the player base and people who want an amazing game, right? That\u2019s not going away. What is going away is opportunities: publishing, funding, mid-sized studios and small studios who can sustain that.&#8221; Kaman also said that developers should be willing to take a risk in releasing something that is not polished, but rather is focused on fun. Nick Kaman This seems to be exactly what has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16790\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4mO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16791,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions\/16791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}