I Made $300K Making Video Games. Here’s What I Learned…

Ok, but you did a game for someone else, not yours. :P Still good for learning, I guess.

So the answer is to quit indie dev... Nice

I love the perspective, at the end of the day a buck is a buck.

This is a good video.... BUT! Why did you gave up man! You have done more than 99% of people who dream about financial freedom and at the end you agreed to get back in a cell of employment. What I only hope for is that you keep your day job to learn and make more games. The idea here is to make a conscious decision to keep trying to achieve the highest goal you can conceive off untill you make it... Or you die! Yes... You set a goal, 10 milions, 100 milions a billion, whatever crank your gears! And then do it for the rest of your life.

At least you're not selling me a product.

really nice video you make some light because I'm just starting to learn game dev.
I'm complete beginner so it's scared me when I see many inde game dev in a trouble.

Well done - Great video.

Great vdo🎉

Meanwhile all i hear right now are job layoffs.

i wanted to make video game based on to tell & experience its dynamic storyline, with advanced physics, smooth motion matching locomotion system.

great video man, just start the journey .....your video is very informative. keep it up!

Well this video didn't aged very well, with all the layoffs going around I would say it is RISKIER to work in a game company than to run your own indie/solo game studio now.

Although true in many ways, the current layoff trend makes this a very sad story for many.

you lose at the indie game, the best part is not being a tool for soeone else. The best part its the freedom you get by working for yourself.

Haven't been clickbaited this hard in years, totally unexpected. "I made 300k with my day job, I learned that having a job pays"

How many years were you working in game dev till you reached $300,000?

really elongated way to say get a job lol :) true though, I freelance as a unity game dev, been doing so for about 5 yrs, its made me around £25K, games that I have released myself even on switch and pc, has made me about £300. The truth is you are better off being hired to make other peoples games, so yeah, spot on mate.

The outcome of this video was unexpected. I'm used to the typical "you can be anyone you want if you work hard and university doesn't matter" and here it's the opposite: become a professional and find a job. I think having a coding degree is the biggest shortcut to success. You can buy sprites, you can buy music and you write the code yourself. Someone coming from visual art or music is going to have a bad time.

Same numbers and same approach, I making the games for almost 15 years now and best way to get 100-300k per year it’s just make games for someone else.

10,000 layoffs in 2023, 6000 layoffs in 2023. Might be harder than it used to be to get into the game industry

I absolutely agree with your tactics. I was job hunting for 8 months with 3.5 years of experience (CAD Designer/Engineer) and I had no luck. all of the sudden I knew a guy who knew a guy (who knew a guy) and I was hired in two business days. Connections go SO far.

great. finally a realistic video

Stop Starting, Start Finishing. I love this quote. 😂

Thanks dude, that's inspiring!

This was a fantastic realist approach, very enjoyable!

TLDR: Get a Job

They didn't reply because you didn't put Console.WriteLine();

Very informative.

hahahaha I'm so happy to see this vid, as a 25+ yr game dev (not years old, that's how long I've been in the industry and you've probably played a game I've made) I'm somewhere around 3mil from income and options from employment, never made anything significant from any personal project lol. sad but true. Yet I'm still here working on personal projects in my free time. it's a way of life I guess

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Hello sir
Please can you put me through how i can become a game app developer

300k??? that's 299,999 more that i have made 🥲

Great video on a different perspective!
The indie dev dream is indeed great but some people really undervalue just how good a regular job can be. You get paid, you do just a few tasks, you get some stability and hopefully you learn a ton from other people.

Great video but the question is how long it took for you to make 300k?

Personally, im not pursuing the indie dev dream of becoming a massive success, but rather, i just really enjoy making games and want to do it as my career. The biggest reasons i dont want to do that for a company is because i want to work for myself. Ive been in the workforce for a decade now, so not a huge amount of time, but ive worked for many companies. Not all of them are bad, but i appreciate my own hard work when im doing it to grow my own visions and ideas more than doing it for a paycheck. So even if i make just enough to get by in the indie dev world ill be content and happy.

Ive had a mobile game idea for years i just keep adding shit to but have no idea where to start in bringing it to life so it shall forever live in limbo with my hopes and dreams

You do deserve a subscribe. Here you go .

Kinda tough that lots of studios just did big layoffs. Not only are fewer hiring, but also there's tons of talented people competing for fewer seats now.

Did you actually earn 300k? Or the company you worked for?

Great vid man. I'm currently learning game dev and plan on making some indie games but not trying to become "the next big thing". I just want to use it as a launchpad into a job somewhere. I just can't imagine working on a game for years and it flopping lol. I'd rather have someone pay me to help

I appreciate so much you sharing this info 👍

I did Java as well! So tough! This video is amazing! So much great advice.

Why would you want a job. Thats the reason most people want to do this. They hate working for someone else. You didnt even show people what you did to advertise. I don't mean to be harsh, but that's the failure. There are so many shitty games that get millions of downloads. Clearly the issue is marketing! Its like building a kick ass website but never paying any attention to seo. This video is very discouraging

Clearly working for a successful game is easier than making your own. I think this is why I like software dev. It's adjacent to games and pays better 😂

This sounds like exactly how I got a job in Web Development. Wanted to learn Game Development, but that seemed more risky; went into Web Development and Software Engineering through the same means. Finally got a job and have been using my job experience to hone my programming skills. Considering trying to get a game development job next. Thanks for the advice!