The Insane Popularity of Simple Games

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Published on October 21, 2020 12:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76nsihnr-TM

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Among Us (2018)

Duration: 10:41

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The rise of simple games (Among Us, Fall Guys and other popular indie viral video games) constantly prove that simple games have the ability to become more popular than most complicated, open world, immersive AAA video games. What makes simple games so popular? Deceptive Simplicity.

Developing video games is hard. Increasing a game's popularity is even harder. Making a game simple (especially indie games) widens your game's target audience and game accessibility, increasing it's chances of gaining popularity across content creators on YouTube Gaming and Twitch. Ensuring your game retains some depth, you can prevent players from getting bored after a while or never playing again.

Popular simple games such as Among Us, Fall Guys, Undertale, Minecraft, and more have all had massive success in popularity because of simple gameplay - increasing accessibility with players of all gaming experiences (something most successful AAA games fail to pull off). If a game is overly complicated in any gameplay, game mechanics, or game systems; players will feel less likely to stick with the game thus affecting the games replayability.

In this video game deep dive, we discuss Deceptive Simplicity, what makes simple games so popular, how do you make a simple game, how do you make a simple game popular, how do you get player to keep playing your game, and more; regardless of the game engine (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc).

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🎬 Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Deceptive Simplicity
02:18 - What makes a Game Simple?
04:40 - What makes a Game Shareable?
06:42 - Sharing Deceptively Simple Games
08:59 - Simple isn't the End
09:49 - The Best Bit

🎵 Music
- Wii Shop Theme
- MGSV (Sins of a Father)
- Super Mario 64 (Metallic Mario, File Select)
- Animal Crossing (2am)
- Ratchet and Clank (Logging Site, Eudora)
- Catherine: Fullbody (Temptation).
- Super Mario Galaxy (Another Story)
- Kingdom Hearts 2 (Sora)
- Persona 3 (Afternoon Break)

🎮 Games
- Among Us
- Fall Guys
- Crusader Kings 3
- Minecraft
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Dark Souls
- Untitled Goose Game
- SpiritFarer
- The Talos Priciple
- My Friend Pedro
- Undertale
- Stardew Valley
- Subsurface Circular
- Phasmophobia
- PT

Stay Safe &Thanks for watching! ~(˘▾˘~)

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