Examples of games developed by a single developer?

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Post by wayne_skylar » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

I dabbled in gamedev in college and have been working as an engineer for the past 15 years. I am interested in building a game as a hobby / side project. I was wondering if anyone here could give me examples of simple yet fun games that would help with inspiration.

One example I can think of off the top of my head would be A Dark Room[1] But I'm not looking to copy it.

Anyone have any examples?

1. https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

Re: Examples of games developed by a single developer?

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Post by thesuperbigfrog » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

Stardew Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardew_Valley

Undertale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertale

Re: Examples of games developed by a single developer?

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Post by thatwasunusual » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

Minecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

Re: Examples of games developed by a single developer?

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Post by vimy » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Prince of Persia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_g...

Re: Examples of games developed by a single developer?

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Post by vimy » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/about/

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Post by speedgoose » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC

Baba is you, I think.

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Post by bananicorn » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

Infiniminer is something that comes to mind - which was the base used for Minecraft, I think.

While we're in the Realm of voxel-based games, there's Minetest, which is open Source and written in C++ and extendable by Lua.

Iirc, braid was also developed solely by one person, although he did commision the art.

But in general, the "big game made by a single person" is a bit of a myth. Sure, it does exist, but many of those people have either had help from others, or were actually working in a small team.

A lot of it is just marketing talk.