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Ask HN: Why I rarely see game dev startup here?

14•blindprogrammer•13h ago
Do investors despise game development companies, and do you have to go solo? If so, I would have expected to see at least one on Show HN. Or maybe I missed it—definitely not as popular as other apps.

Also, why haven’t LLM wrappers penetrated this sector? Is it because OpenAI and other “parasites” haven’t had the opportunity to access source code to build their wholesale theft, so they don’t have the code to instruct you to build games? Or maybe there are a lot, and I just missed them.

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Marshferm•13h ago
Games are idiosyncratic, creative, and funded mostly by knowledgeable insiders funding devs with track records. The failure rate is mitigated this way. Plus the revenue doesn’t favor the VC system. First investors aren’t given such extreme advantages, and seed money for proofs isn’t necessary. A demo costs much less than an app. I’m in game dev and VC is the last place I’d seek capital. AI is the last place I’d look for creative help (though AI is involved in the intricacies of baking and texture refinement).
manuisin•17m ago
Can you tell me about how you use AI for baking and texture refinement?

I’m a beginner making small 3d webxr experiences, so tooling is a bit scarce outside of blender. Recently started making my own models and doing stuff like ao mapping and lightmapping. Editing texture maps using AI sounds helpful.

gus_massa•11h ago
Minigames are posted quite often https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I'm not sure if you are looking for game companies.
romanhn•9h ago
One interesting company in this space I've seen is CreativeMode - generating Minecraft mods based on a text description. Pretty brilliant use of LLM coding actually. Found out about it when my kid asked me to pay for it. Doesn't look like they ran a Show HN / Launch HN (not one I can find) despite being a YC company.
lerp-io•4h ago
i think the stuff posted here is mostly designed for devs as the end consumers
shahbaby•2h ago
For most other ideas you can build a quick MVP to validate or perhaps even just a landing page. Games take much longer to get off the ground.

I think the reason we don't see many LLM wrappers is because Games are technically complex, multi-disciplinary and ever changing.

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