There's a real problem with actually getting eyes on your indie game, which is that when you're not an artist and don't yet have an artist on your team, your game looks like shit for long portions of development. This means that your videos and graphics are always going to have trouble doing numbers on social media or kickstarter.
So when people ask for shorter games with worse graphics, is there like, an actual method for getting people to pay attention to one of those games? Every one I've heard of was basically exclusively by word of mouth or award shows, and I'm not in place to get on award shows and I'm not cool enough to get word of mouth going.
This thought brought to you by: games in the same genre as mine which are less complete but have prettier animation and sprites and therefore got more publicity, especially on kickstarter.