Game developers who are not artists, how do you manage?

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I remember tons of ideas I had to make games, and honestly I would love to make a game or two, but each time I eventually abandoned the projects because I couldn't make a graphic at all, both 2D and 3D unfortunately

Top comments (9)

Sara • May 22

Itch.io and Kenny assets has lots & free assets which can always be a good starting point and used as a placeholder.

SamuraiX[13~] • May 22

oh well that's true, I think gamers have bad views over ready to use assets, but if I at least modify and edit them, probably will be acceptable enough

Anny He • May 22

You can use opengameart.org. It has images, music, sound effects.
My latest game uses music + images from there badaboot.itch.io/memory.

SamuraiX[13~] • May 22

oh thanks for the suggestion! Music part is one part that i can handle actually, I learned guitar and some stuff about music and sound effects in general in past years when monster virus attacked our world lol

Jess Lee • May 22

@end3r got any advice?

Andrzej Mazur • May 23

There are plenty of approaches - you can look for free assets, or buy some, generate them procedurally, team up with a graphic designer, or use AI. Joining a jam is a perfect opportunity to try any of those and see which one works the best.

Justin Young • May 23

I am not an artist, but that doesn't exclude me from trying to improve my art. So it's about allocating time to practice. If I just sit back and say I'm not an artist, then I'm just a self-fulfilling prophecy. When I started game-dev I wasn't a game developer either, yet here I am making games. Art is the same way, if I carve out a bit of time every day with the intention of improving, after a little while, guess what, my art has improved.

Nevo David • May 22

Man, I feel this way too hard, not knowing art always stops me in my tracks.

SamuraiX[13~] • May 22

i feel you :( but hey, we probably can manage to get good in art as well if we try our best i guess