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Great video! I agree that youtube is great for devlog. Some people really like reddit for them too.

Speaking strictly as a customer- yes, I definitely think TH-cam is the best. There is little to no chance that I would buy a game from a short, tiktok or simple post. A TH-cam video, however? Definitely! Long-formed content will give me the chance to grow interested or even emotionally attached to a game, motivating me to buy it! It works similar to word of mouth, which might just be the most "effective" strategy, though difficult to make happen intentionally! :)

Oh hey, just noticed the BYU t-shirt! If you're still in Utah and do another in-person playtest with strangers I'd love to swing by and meet you guys!

Don’t you DARE diss doodle jump

The hardest part about making devlogs is trying to make the boring parts interesting. Like I spent *so long* on the pause menu for my game, and there’s no chance it’ll be longer than 30 seconds of explaining 🤣 Anyways, I agree with a lot of what you said. I’m still learning how to “dumb down” my process so anyone can enjoy watching. Making content for only devs probably isn’t sustainable since they’re such a small number and they’re usually already busy with their own projects

have you tested putting a collectable near where a wall jump should start for the first while in t he game so the player builds the expectation of being able to jump at those angles

Blasphemous got great art but not fun to play

I think there are ways to frame devlogs in ways that don't promote your game to only game developers. I think the main of which is by making them more like a video essay. That's how I strive to make mine but you can see other examples like Aia's "water isn't real video".

For mobile games what should I do to get good at User Acquisition? It's very expensive and very competitive. How games like Hill Climb Racing gets 100+ millions of installs? Please give me some resources specially for mobiles. Can you make special video for mobile games marketing and User Acquisition?

Not into marketing and stuff but this honestly seems very interesting and informative to people needing to market!

This gives me motivation for making my own game. Thank you. You guys are such an inspiration. You have no idea how much you've impacted me.

As a kid i played rpgs and shooters, now i play metroidvania's

Hi Jordan. Fellow indie developer here. Thank you for this video. I just wanted to share that I felt an incredibly similar feeling of my daily excitement and enthusiasm for making games dying down after 3-4 years especially after being involved in long-form projects that weren't jam games. I remember waking up and feeling excited about making games and working on them for as much as 14 hours a day. But now, even getting through 2 hours of development per day had started to feel like a slog. It's not something I've found to be talked about often. So, I was elated when I heard you address it. Not only that but you also went on to offer a resolution to the issue in your case which was the birth of a more refined form of excitement for making games. I had never been able to think about it in those terms and had just accepted that I'm not that excited about making games anymore. So, you have given me a great gift by articulating and helping me understand the phase that I am in. So, I offer you a heartfelt thank you. P.S: Your game art looks incredible and the coin-collection UI is inordinately satisfying. Kudos. P.P.S: I saw that we'd joined the same Paint Jam 3 years ago :)

Great video!I'm a fairly new game developer and am currently working on my first game in blender and all the information you gave is much appreciated!I will be applying that to my game and your game looks great!🙌🏼😁✅🙂❤️

Woah, haven't been active for a while now, but I have to say this is a really cool format, looking at all the new progress on the game is sick and it's impressive how even with so much you all have found a way to work together well and still find time for the project with the same ambition as when you guys started. The game is going great keep up the amazing work!

very nice graphics!

Flappy bird was made by a vietnamese dev, who made a lot of game before it 😅

Great insight

Thanks a lot for the videos you make, I am a developer and for the past year I have been trying my hand at game dev and all your videos have been a great source of knowledge and inspiration for me and I am sure a lot of other people✨

The older you grow, the less 4 years will seem

Beautiful, by the way, that first game you made touched my heart <3

it literally takes 3 minutes for the video to start. sorry for your kid but you got a dislike.

Great advice! I have also found the game development community great as well!!

You need to tell us how you built your amazing team, I realized you have couple of artists too in your team. Let us know how you found each other!

I spent about 5 years writing shareware games, and later another 5 years modding online multiplayer FPS games. It was a complete bust and waste of time. The second 5 years I got at least $1,000 in donations, but spread over 5 years, that didn't even pay the cable bill to run the server at home or host it elsewhere. Here's a bad fact about being an indie game developer, even if you buckle down and become lasar focused on how you're going to reach an audience and spreading access to your game : kids don't have credit cards and are trash talking skinflint cheapskates... because most of them don't have money, and if they do, they spend it on console hardware and junk food, not your video game labor of love, passion project, or work of art. Don't even bother with it. The same thing can be said of being a content creator for pewtewb. There is no money here. It's an illusion.

Do u have discord bro 😊

Do you have an email or social media so i can contact you because im stsrtinf game development soon bro 😊

Im starting gsme development at full sail university sooon 😅

yooooo my indie game was shown in the discord clip lmao

I'm a grumpy guss. Did you play Animal Well? If so, did you feel the same way I did? I definitely don't think it's anywhere near GOTY, but that's for many reasons I'll probably talk about some other time, but MAN, is it masterclass in atmosphere. If there's one thing about that game that I can't fault, it's the atmosphere.

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What an amazing video, very inspirational. I'm also making my own game while having to deal with the adventure that is being a parent, my son being only 1 and a half years old. Anyway, nice vibe!

Wow the design of chapter 2 looks so cool

“this colour is not anywhere else in the game” 6:28 *very close red appears on screen…*

I'm trying to start my game development journey right now And this video was very inspirational !

Did I just see a Bily Hatcher reference? OMG I feel old 😂 Keep it going!

Great info. Subscribed!

Im not one to sing kumbaya

Thanks for sharing - I especially enjoyed that first section about your journey becoming a games developer, really cool to hear

Thank you for an inspiring video. Really like you humble and calm approach :)

Yo! We need a link to your itch ❤

Ok 2 times I heard you say ”Tether guys” 😊

Are you working on the game full time or spare time? How do you bring in money during dev time? Are you funded?

Beautiful video, I agree with everything 👍.

awesome video

Seeing those new clips of tethergiest are getting me hyped!

Lovely video. Really cool and down to earth

On a note related to what you said about Undertale, something I noticed is that people make the same stuff over and over. You can see it your previous games that you showed here (puzzle platformer, nature, redhead protagonist). Or take a look at Elden Ring: it's pretty much the same formula as Demon's Souls or Dark Souls, but evolved and improved. And I find it encouraging, because it means that it's not about being talented or lucky, but about the craft and putting in the work. You just have to keep on making stuff and trust that you will get better!

Probably one of my favorite videos to date! Also, let’s take a moment to thank the unsung heroes out there, the supportive spouse/partners.

Very good lessons, Jordan. Thanks for sharing, you and the team are making a wonderful job with the whole project, and the wholesome vibes. My take on motivation is that, I have been living, of, by and for video games for 17 years now, but the fact of not having made a title that is genuinely my very own in that time due to various difficulties and limitations leads me to make this my life goal to release a Good Game. The motivation has never gone away in 17 years, other things that happened in life demotivate me, but knowing this is the only thing I am good at, I love doing, and I enjoy makes me realize I am privileged, and I don't have to forget about my little achievements of the past. Even if I don't have any success tittle, nor game of my own under my arm, but I can live from what I do and put bread on the table, that's what matters. People tell me they respect my discipline despite my mental disability, but I don't think it's discipline, it's simply that I love what I do, we have to pay the bills and put food on the table and there are many people who depend on what I do and my decisions, I will not and cannot abandon ship, the fun of many, their valuable time, and the livelihood of my team is at stake. I hope, wish and work hard to some day, hopefully get as far as you guys. Respect for how you are doing things. Thanks!