i need some guidance. i have several projects i’m excited to make, and the ui for each one is already complete. i’m a ui designer by profession, and i usually rely on chatgpt to handle the scripting. the problem is, one small error can break everything—and that makes it hard to finish anything that’s actually playable or ready to publish.
so here’s what i’m trying to figure out. how do i move forward without any startup capital? how do i find investors or collaborators who care about quality? and how can i start building a community around my work when i don’t have a finished game to show yet?
Simply put, you’re not going to find an actual investor worth anything.
You simply can’t start a game without any startup capital, especially when relying on generative AI, like ChatGPT, Gemini, or even Deepseek.
It’s better to take your time, and work on learning how to write code properly and write your own code, or maybe try to join an actual game studio where you can do UI design on your own.
The tough reality is that you can’t do everything on your own, and quality developers, more specifically scripters are not going to work for free. If you find anyone working for free you’re likely to get someone inexperienced, or someone who isn’t worried about quality and it’s just gonna cause issues later on.
In order to get startup capital maybe join a developer community like HiddenDevs, and then focus on getting comissions to grow your startup then hire people to do things.