“Asset flipping” is a contentious term for video game fans, who often use it to refer to bad games that are cobbled together using pre-made assets. On Steam, asset flipping has been a genuine problem in the past due to a lack of safety measures for preventing garbage from getting on the storefront. But the discussion around asset flipping has apparently given people the wrong idea of how games are made, judging by a recent controversy with the gritty battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
Making wholly original video game assets such as 3D models is a time-consuming and expensive practice that even big game development companies can’t always swing. As such, many developers end up outsourcing work to other countries, or...
