for aspiring 3d artists out there: finding a free asset pack and modeling a main character that fits the pack's style is a really great exercise in working outside your normal style

issue about "asset flips" is that theres is scummy people just putting bunch of assets together and selling it as their own game. how assets should be used: as a template for your work, dont wanna animate a running animation? download an asset, put it into your game, FINE TUNE it so it fits into your game and doesnt cause conflicts/bugs. most of the asset flips look like little timmy went insane on his GTAV 200+modpack, you dont take someone else work and sell it as yours. its the same with video creation, just downloading random videos you like and reupload them gets you into trouble. put your own work into it to create something new and have just a few clips of a video you downloaded is totally okay. the same goes for assets, use them as an addition to your game and do not create an entire game out of assets.

Indie Devs should asset flip if they're making some really big projects, if it's your first time gamedevving and you are too inexperienced to model, or if it's some really small props in the background and you want to save time. If it's not any, you can go ahead and model it yourself.

Flipping assets is like sampling from other songs, citing from other books or using pre-packaged ingredients in cooking, there's nothing inherently wrong with it but you still have to channel your creative effort in your final work and not make your audience be constantly aware of the elements you borrowed

Honestly very good video! I think I've romanticized the "one man game" concept and tried too hard to emulate it without thinking about if it actually serves me well. In most cases, it's really not necessary to do everything yourself. (Btw, this got recommended to me on my front page, which is a good sign for your channel! I hope you get lots more growth :) )

As an artist who dabbled in game development I did the exact opposite lol. I drew all the assets and copied all the code because I can't code to save my life. Using assets is the same as using references in the art community. It's looked down upon for some reason. Use assets and work with them to deliver what you want to say through the game.

There's a huge difference between taking assets and reselling them and utilizing assets to make complete games. Talent is an asset too, you know. In fact, you can make a great game using nothing but stock models. Remember, it's not just about how great the game looks, but how great the game plays.

One thing I could argue about the last point is looking at it in a different perspective! If you are more art inclined then use assets that will assist you in your weaknesses (such as code or feature related assets). There are many developers that are art inclined which make games with the assistance of feature assets or tutorials. Really helpful video! I have major imposter syndrome 😅

i enjoy building projects in roblox studio but i just can't scipt, animate, make art, and i almost never have any creative ideas so i just make a recreation of stuff i like

Feels weird that this was released by a company; but legitimately, it was a good video and the reference to Sloyd at the end was very tact.

Love this video dude!! My whole first game was on assets, wouldn't have been made if I didn't use assets. I covered this in one of my vids too. Liked and subbed, looking forward to future content!

While I think using assets is great, I still would recommend tweaking the assets to better fit your game to give it cohesion! Good video!

this need more view unga bunga

because my overall money is absolutely 0 i had to absolutely everything for my game, but i never had any experience doing modeling organic things or anything like that, but i found editing pixel sprites fun and i loved pokemon black & white mixture of 2d and 3D really compelling and i loved the 2D-HD trend with post processing. and that's the route i went with. I started by grabbing old pokemon and free pixel assets and completely editing them, like adding a completely new hair, changing it's costume, in the end it looks completely different from the original, because for some reason I CAN'T start a drawing from scratch or sketch, but i'm really good at adding stuff on top (like, i suck a drawing figures, but if you give me a figure sketch i will be able to do a pretty good drawing on top of it, coloring or even changing it's clothing completely. But i just can't start a drawing from sketch no matter how much i try)

"Done is better than perfect"

I literally made the opposite video, arguing you shouldn't use assets :) I do think you have good points though.

my middle name is "Asset flip"

Paying for assets is like hiring a contractor for your team, expect what you get from the contractor is not going to be unique to your game. Also, at the end of the day, most gamers will not care if you made a game by yourself or not.

I mean what if you are making your game as a portfolio centerpeice?

If you weren't suppose to use assets. Why would ppl upload it?

I just don’t like recycled works. I don’t think it’s good for the game industry as a whole when everyone uses the same assets. I’m not an artist myself, but I tend to hire / collab with artists. And I use assets for prototyping.

why not creating your own AI assets . its freee