It probably depends on the game. A lot of games (mostly renpy based I'd say) are likely one-guy projects since you don't really need a whole team writing code. Extra hires would usually be for the art since it's rare someone has both the time and skills to code and do their own artwork. As an example, if i'm not wrong, Oni is an artist, not a coder, that's why RL:Evo has a bunch of bugs on every release.
Of course, people can also team up with others, maybe one focuses on writing the plot and dialogues, while someone else does the art, and the last one puts everything together in code. You can tell when a game is made by a team because it's usually more polished. Individual projects tend to be either slower or of lower quality and probably relying on AI for most things.
Im really getting sick and tired of downloading games that seem like they have potential just to start playing and find there is absolutely no audio at all whatsoever this game doesnt even have music and yet in settings they have options to lower and higher music and voice volume???? Its 2025 why are we still creating games like that? It should be a bare minimum requirement to have audio these days or atleast should create a tag that can better describe the quality of the game such as "audio" to help people narrow it down and avoid situations like this its really annoying.
I assume this game is a buggy mess but Rogue is telling me she's waiting for me on the 2nd floor during the day but she's not there during any time window. I can't find any way to progress anything. I already did the thing in the lab.
So, what is there to do after Amara does anal play with the dildo?
I see no hint or sign whatsoever of how to advance things after that.
Nobody nowhere in the place to interact, keep skipping time and still nothing.
Im really getting sick and tired of downloading games that seem like they have potential just to start playing and find there is absolutely no audio at all whatsoever this game doesnt even have music and yet in settings they have options to lower and higher music and voice volume???? Its 2025 why are we still creating games like that? It should be a bare minimum requirement to have audio these days or atleast should create a tag that can better describe the quality of the game such as "audio" to help people narrow it down and avoid situations like this its really annoying.
it's the go fund me era of games, anyone can develop a game, so naturally the quality of developers out there has dropped over the past 10 years. I agree we the consumers of these games should try at a minimum to enforce standards via tags and rating to reduce the number of bad ones out there. Most Programmers are their own developers; that's 90% of the problem as programmers think in programmer logic and 80% of them a lazy as hell. I think the issue started somewhere around 2000 when the game companies fired all their nonprogrammer staff and made programming a bare minimum. The issue is people may be good at one thing but it's rare for someone to excel in everything, that said they should have left it to the professionals who were good at developing even if they were not good a programming. 20 years later that logic has evolved to where everyone who can program now thinks that also means they are a developer, which sadly is not the case, from the overwhelming outcries of the consumers these days.
it's likely not to change till something forces it to. like a disruption in the way it's done, just like how all non-programmers were axed in 2000. (it takes a true imagination to create, where it only takes the right skills to make it a reality)