--- title: Downsides Of A Low Barrier To Entry | daily.dev description: As game development tools, free assets, and tutorials have made it trivially easy to create and ship games, the resulting flood of titles creates serious... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/downsides-of-a-low-barrier-to-entry-4qf8n3rip twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Downsides Of A Low Barrier To Entry | daily.dev og:description: As game development tools, free assets, and tutorials have made it trivially easy to create and ship games, the resulting flood of titles creates serious... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/downsides-of-a-low-barrier-to-entry-4qf8n3rip og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4qf8n3RiP.png og:image:alt: Downsides Of A Low Barrier To Entry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Downsides Of A Low Barrier To Entry **[Cain on Games](https://daily.dev/sources/cainongames)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary As game development tools, free assets, and tutorials have made it trivially easy to create and ship games, the resulting flood of titles creates serious problems: intense competition, poor discoverability on storefronts like Steam, fragmented consumer wallets, market saturation with low-quality releases, and choice paralysis. Drawing parallels to the 1980s Atari crash, self-published ebooks, indie films, and open-mic comedy, the argument is that abundance without quality filtering harms both creators and consumers. The proposed solution is personal curation — finding trusted reviewers or streamers whose taste aligns with yours — rather than gatekeeping who can make games. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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