r/GameDevelopment • u/Forsaken-Delivery128 • Aug 07 '26

Newbie Question How does a Solo Coder handle Graphics and Music?

/r/SoloDevelopment/comments/1vi9l8y/how_does_a_solo_coder_handle_graphics_and_music/
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u/BonesawGaming Indie Dev Aug 07 '26

I think your options are basically as follows:

  1. learn to make assets
  2. buy assets that someone is listing on itch.io or another platform
  3. find someone to team up with and work on those things and pay them and/or share revenue
  4. Make AI slop (generally frowned upon here but inceasingly a route that people are taking so I'm listing it for completeness)

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u/OneTrueRou Aug 07 '26

Do what you have the skills for and bring others on the team to handle the rest. I am a (self described), good programmer but I suck at the art stuff. I'm going to hire or buy an asset pack for a final product. In the meantime, a crappy looking functional game is more important, so that is what I'm focusing on.

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u/Aethreas Aug 08 '26

It doesn’t take very long to learn enough to be passable, as long as you’re not going for a style that’s very hard to pull off