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And it doesn’t even have to be something you like, btw. When I was making a mobile clicker, I played tons of similar games to understand what the GD even wanted from me 😅

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIB...

Do not worry too young about your career. Worry about having a rounded intellectual inner life.

You're gonna spend your whole life in your own head.

www.youtube.com/shorts/KQoJx...

Full interview.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gb...

I wrote about this on Reddit in a gamedev subreddit and—believe it or not…

Quite a few people unironically started acting exactly like that 😅

The developer moved the first achievement further; now you can get it only after finishing the tutorial—and the average playtime went up.

The dev himself says he “just wanted to check whether the Steam achievements API works.”

He thinks, it’s because the first achievement can be earned very quickly. Hunters would just launch the game, grab it, and close it—doing that across hundreds of games on the list. His game has only one achievement. Pay special attention to achievements in your game—don’t slap them in carelessly.

Later the developer stumbled upon an achievement-hunter site that listed his game, RemoteSpace: First Settlement. He joined their Discord and asked around. People just chase quick achievements and collect them, that’s all.

Results:
- 150k copies sold
- 195k wishlists
- 1,700 reviews
- Median playtime: 3 hours 29 minutes

www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

And it's not just old players who came to try it again or clean out their backlog, the game is in Steam's top10 sales right now 🤯