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Thanks for the feedback! I'm still trying to find a recipe that works for me on TH-cam, so I appreciate it.

@kkl976 to my knowledge, and based on the documentation, you can completely change the name of your game until you publish your store page. So, nothing is finalized until you submit your page for review the first time.

Great reminder and an important point for the US! I already filed my Beneficial Ownership Information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, but I completely neglected to mention that. For anyone reading the comments, this is a new requirement for US businesses, thank you @Dimbark!

I'm using Godot 4.2 for my current project.

My opinion is that your first game should take less than a year to make, so that you're gaining experience but not spending years on a single project that is likely going to be your worst (most people should get better with experience). However, it does still need to be something you're proud of and put effort into because players can tell if you didn't put any care into it. Take a little extra time fleshing out the design and I'm sure you can think of something. It likely won't be your dream game, but it will take you one step closer.

AI is definitely going to alter the landscape, but it will be a while before it's able to fully replace anyone. I'm hoping that Growlery Games will evolve into a small team in the coming years, but for now, as a solo dev, AI is offering up some opportunities to compensate for being a one-man-band. In my next video I plan on talking about the tools that I'm using, and one of those is an AI driven program for pixel art. I'm primarily a programmer, so I'm utilizing a program called PixelLab to quickly concept and add detail to my sprites. I struggled a bit over whether or not to use AI, but it's already becoming common so why would I hold myself back by not using it to improve my own workflow? The AI assistance is great, but it doesn't replace a dedicated artist, and one of the reasons I went with PixelLab is because, to my knowledge, they use art from a group of consenting 2D artists to train their AI, so it's not ripping content from elsewhere and there are still actual artists involved. So no, you didn't miss the cutoff, but you're definitely entering an evolving landscape.

I hope you do when the timing makes sense for you. There's a lot of risk, but in just the few months I've been focusing on indie dev full-time, it has been super rewarding.