KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 6 — When TCG Card Shop Simulator, a new simulation video game, launched to impressive commercial success in September, few realised it was the work of a solo...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 6 — When, a new simulation video game, launched to impressive commercial success in September, few realised it was the work of a solo developer from Malaysia.
The gameplay is simple — players roleplay as trading card game shop owners, selling booster packs to earn money and build their own card shop businesses. Since then, he began creating a few games independently but later found the in-game artwork fell short of his expectations, leading him to pursue digital animation at The One Academy to improve his art skills.The ‘card pulling’ where players open their own packs of collectible Tetramon cards, with a chance of getting a rare and expensive one that can be later resold as individual cards or kept as a personal collection.
“I would spend time working on mobile games on my own. I kept the scope small as I wanted to finish them and aimed to create one game every year to keep the motivation going,” he said., a game inspired by sumi-e painting and critically acclaimed action-adventure gameFast-forward five years later, Sia completed development of— and saw it become a commercial success with over a million downloads to date.
“As a solo developer, I outsourced the game’s artwork to different freelance artists and purchased game assets like 3D models, icons, music and sound effects from the Unity Asset Store.”“The challenging part of game development is knowing what the players want and it’s really easy to spend a lot of time on some features you think the player wants but it’s actually not.
The game’s rapid popularity spike is partly due to exposure from Hololive Production, one of the world’s top VTuber agencies with affiliated talents in Japan, Indonesia and English-speaking countries, whose streamers began livestreaming it to their fanbases.“Before the launch, I set my target at 100,000 copies sold within a year, and I would be very happy,” he continued.
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