hi,

I do realise that it might be a stupid question but I’m an absolute amateur who wants to have a part in game dev.

I’m trying to launch a NSFW game in Horny Villa/Lust Goddess style, however MUCH less greedy and payment oriented. All I have is me being a story writer, translator and sponsor, I have absolutely no hard skills such as coding knowledge or art. I have only game concept and gameplay design.

My question then is- how much budget would I need to create a game in such style with all the mechanics involved as in the mentioned games considering I would need coders, payments linked and artists? Also, what engine would be best for such game considering it would be available mainly on steam/web version?

Take into account that for starters I would get help  mainly from someone who has low rates or even some volunteer work.

i wll tell you a small secret, which would help you to get goin easiely, without the need to hire anyone.....Rosebud AI: Make 3D Games & Worlds with Vibe Coding

check it our carefullly and look at the abilities you get offered, you dont need any coder or artisti, and if you heavily want to rely on storie this might be your thing, you can check it out for free, thou the prompt amount you have is very limited, they offer 5 differten tiers for subscription, even with pro subscription thing the price is okay imo, for instance i just joined for the first month using the 30 dollar tier, you can pay monthly, paying a whole year features additional discounts, but i dont have that much money to throw away at once lol :D so if you work properly you certainly can great and release a game within one month....which makes you complete investement like 30 dollars....one last thing: this engines offers ditribution via their  thing, BUT you can upload to itch, either as web build as their is an option you can download the web game too getting an index.html and the assets, and propably there even might be a way to further convert the html to an exe, maybe via creating a launcher, there are tools to creaate launchers or maybe special tools to convert to exe are existing.....

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about payment, yeah i heavily suggest releasing your first game for free, it wont really spread and go viral as people dont tend to inverst much into  stuff they can't be sure of its quality and if youre new you have noone behind you in the form of followers :)