How To Change Game Genres Mid Development

It's interesting what can be accomplished when you set your mind to it. And it's interesting how people react to it based on the expectations that have been set.

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[MyklBurger]

Man this is exactly what happened with Starbound too. Started off as a sandbox game, then devs put in a story no one asked for.

[JustJum]

"Huh, how come ive never seen this Artindi video"

*video released: 12 seconds ago

Oh

[lostmarble]

we're not doing funny little theoreticals today. we're doing autopsies.

[fearlesswee]

DUDE I feel like I was the only one who hated how every POI in 7DTD became a Skyrim dungeon! And the general nerfing/outright removal of sandbox elements.

[Soupinator]

thank you for making this, now my RPG sandbox FPS platformer simulation dating sim mixture game can now have Visual Novel elements to it

[THExRISER]

...I would normally say _"don't"_ but I feel the end result would be so entertaining I'd just stand back and watch what happens.

_So yes, DO switch game genres mid development, actually, do it more than once, it'll be funny._
_In fact, the further the change the better, turn your survival horror game into a kart racing game with fishing & dating mechanics._

[Asminae]

Interesting approach to "sarcastic tutorial" while tackling real-case of game development. I hope this format will see some sort of continuation :)

[jonathanjohnjohnson]

Went from Mid-Development to a Mid Game

[remnai]

i think we should add more quests and dungeons, i think you missed that part



seriously this one threw me for a loop i could NOT tell where the sarcasm was until after the first 30 seconds-

[naruheme]

It always felt like a development loop of combating players strategy over the years but I still go back to playing it to see what changed. If they'd fix one bug I'll go back to playing more.

[leinis]

For the record (as somebody that did play plenty of early 7days): this video is really spot on.

[pharaohthutmosis]

dont forget the zombie AI has a PHD in laod bearing architecture and will instantlky know how to get to you whevere you are and attack the weakest point in the structure

[trevorholland]

They turned an interesting scavenging-crafting game in to an endless series of fetch quests. And they literally call them fetch quests in the game... the game was honestly better 6 years ago.

[gearbox]

You must be really mad at this one particular game that you made an entire video about it, disguised as game-dev tutorial.

[layers]

Omfg, they actually did this. They turned my survival game into an rpg.

[InjuredMuffin]

The thing I hate the most about the game is dungeon POIs, the paths through some of them feel so forced

[kingcloudman]

I thought this was actually serious at first 💀💀💀

[kitsunelunari]

Artindi woke up today and chose violence

[KlausWulfenbach]

This reminds me of how the Starbound devs ruined an awesome open-universe sandbox game by turning it into a tedious interstellar point & click adventure game with occasionally interesting combat. It'd be really nice if devs would stop doing this.

[anusaukko]

The closest way I can describe 7DTD is like an abusive relationship. I love it, and I keep coming back, but it keeps beating me up relentlessly with shitty updates and changes nobody asked for or wants. Modded 7 Days with friends is some of the most fun I've had.