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i made a game where you literally have to find a needle in a haystack the catch is there are 5,000,000 pieces of hay and only 1 needle

If you want to find success then picking the right game idea is absolutely crucial. Considering how you have an infinite amount of possible game ideas that could be done (but finite time), how do you know which ones are winners? First in terms of idea generation, personally I definitely write down ideas as soon as I have them, I have tons of .txt files with all sorts of potential ideas stored all over the place. Then in terms of figuring out what might be a good idea that has potential, it's basically looking at things that are trending, that's part of the reason why I keep doing my Top 10 New Steam Games videos every single month, I want to stay up to date with what is doing well. Then how do you validate the game idea? Idea validation is super crucial nowadays, that comes first of all from your own taste (which you gain by doing the research into whats hot) then by asking friends and family to play, then other people, then posting gifs of the game, etc. If you do all that and it's really hard to get people to play the game, or it's really hard for a gif of the game to get more than 10 views, then that's likely an indicator that the idea isn't as appealing as you might think. At that point, if your goal is financial success, it would be best to go back to the drawing board and pick a different idea with more potential. Whereas if you do all that and every gif of your game get 10k+ views and you have playtesters who play your game even without you asking, that's when you know you struck gold! - Code Monkey