Advice for quitting my $55k programming job to become an indie game developer
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Advice for quitting my $55k programming job to become an indie game developer
Advice for quitting my $55k programming job to become an indie game developer
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do you have a running game yet?
No. I don't have a single file yet
don't quit
build an indie game before quitting
Yeah bro, just quit your job and have no income for however long it takes you to make it.
create the file first, then quit
Do indie dev on the side. It's not a reliable career path unless you work with corpos, like any artistic endeavor.
look at Steam. a million indie devs all selling their games for $1. no sales.
To be fair that's because they're all copy paste shovelware. It's pretty rare for an actually interesting game to sell poorly.
Just do it in your free time? With salary like that you're already working part-time, right?
I live in Europe, don't be mean
Must be eastern europe. Very eastern.
1. stop caring, don't work as hard/long
2. start working on your furry porn game on the side
3. start a patreon
Take magic mushrooms
ex game coder here, I worked for 5 years at Eidos and if you want to become a game developer because you love games, thats a terrible idea.
once you are doing it for a living you hate the things. its like working at a candy store, the last thing you want to do when you get home is eat candy.
I'm already tired of games and don't play them much anymore
then whats your objective? If you dont love games then this will show in your design. are you just after an easy life?
Not OP, but at this point in my life, I’m more interested in creating games than actually playing them
how bad was it at Eidos?
its a sweat shop, if a project was late they had the contractual power to pull you in for 7 days a week, 18 hours a day to git it done. projects were always late because if their ridiculous time schedules
sounds worse than i imagined, thanks
Unironically, ask
, hear their stories, heed their warnings, do it anyway.
I want to quit my 200k job. Let's make a game together
The game is called sex.
do indie dev on the side and try to ramp up social media hype; do not quit until you have a minimum viable product (very basic demo of what the game should be like) and enough interest to monetize via patreon/crowdfunding/sales/etc.. Once you get a basic product off the ground (so long as it got enough traction to fund you), you can coast off of that while working on other projects. Even if you start developing and hyping yourself up now, it'll be a minimum of 6 months before you can quit WITH good luck and self-management
40 to 60 games release on Steam alone EACH DAY.
About 350 games in the week around your release.
AAA release? Successful release AAA or indie, in your genre? BOOM you are done.
Also, not only are you competing with other new releases, but the entire backlog of games on every system a player owns. 🙂
Take all the "indie success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number of devs in that time who have tried (again, 50 games a day, 1500 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "making it."
Steam cut, higher self-employment taxes, no benefits, no retirement, AND to top it all off: Your sales diminish over time, so even if you hit this "mediocrity lottery" you'll have to do it all over again in a couple years.
>He thinks that indie gamedev can provide a sustainable primary income in 2024
Hahahahaha
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I did that and it didn't work out. The lesson learned is that I didn't have an exact plan on how to make my indie game exactly, a schedule for each day of what will be done. I spent too much time reading the docs and tutorials that I almost didn't get anything done. My honest advice would be: prepare a precise plan and stick to it fanatically. Otherwise you'll end up not making your indie game.
START BURDENMAXXING IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Start stealing and become a burden on society. First thing you should do is quit your worthless wagie job. Don't bother applying for benefits, welfare or any other government assistance unless you really can't help yourself. I personally prefer to also GHOSTMAXX, no properties in my name, no hand outs, no benefits, no taxes, just living in the shadows of society and outside of the system as much as I can, but I digress. Simply take everything you need from big corporations, resell it and enjoy life. Hit their israelite warehouses and megastores and become an honest reseller. Make sure to post about it and encourage more people to become burdens like you. Once enough people do this, their system collapses. Also always remember how over half the population got vaxxed and sided with the government? make them pay and enjoy it too. This is how you get back at the israelites, the governments, the corporations, the normie cattle and everybody else who wronged you.
It's easy. Just get a girlfriend and let her pay your bills for several years while you work on your time. You can get a part time job as an usher or something if you really need to.
Anon do you believe you bill own nothing and eat ze bugs?
Then the choice is obvious. Bad odds at making it is better than no odds at making it.
Now hear me out though. Use a fricking game engine.
Before you say but wait a minute $55,000 a year is making it.
Now consider the following. In 10 years that will be less than $550,000 short of the 1 million starting to begin to feel like you have in fact made it bucko. Also consider this also. Do we have 10 years now?
One more thing. Do not stray from the formula. Skins, loot boxes, multiplayer, ideally on the phone.
>Quit current job.
>Find job in the vidya industry.
>Make indie games in your free time.
That's about it. Unless you have frick you money, quitting is outright stupid. Getting a non-moronic job in vidya is not easy but it helps tremendously because you'll do something you have a modicum of interest in, and, more importantly, you'll learn things at your job that you can apply in your own games.