A Day in the Life of a Game Developer with a Full Time Job
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2020
- Follow along a day in my life as an Indie Game Developer with a full time job! I show how I balance a full time software engineering job while building a full featured multiplayer indie game!
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-- PC / Desk Setup --
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Gaming PC Tower: amzn.to/3dDnZAA
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 3800X: amzn.to/3o6bNx1
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Strix B550-F : amzn.to/34cUFxF
RAM - G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB: amzn.to/34azn3O
GPU - MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 2070: amzn.to/34czsny
Hard Drive - Samsung (MZ-V7E1T0BW) 970 EVO SSD 1TB: amzn.to/3m3NPR4
Power Supply - Corsair RMX Series, RM750x: amzn.to/3jbiCtl
Microphone - Blue Yeti: amzn.to/3jhI5Bw
Webcam - Angetube Streaming 1080P HD: amzn.to/2IMXVYo
Speakers - Amazon Basics: amzn.to/37o3aIe
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Make sure to SMASH that subscribe button for games, wings, and better special effects than The Last Airbender movie! What special effects do you want to see next?
Lets create a game that others can merely dream_of😎.
Keep it up 👍
Little brother’s love from India🇮🇳
Need tutorials for game development using unity bro......
Need basic programming video for using c#
Yo man are you in Los Angeles ?
@@Coneelfrancis I had someone draw it for me for my upcoming game :). The scene is of one of the climaxes of the first part of the story
@@Coneelfrancis You can download it on my discord if you'd like =) discord.gg/cXyvjH9sZY.
Still early but lots of good stuff coming soon!
I'm glad you didn't show yourself eating salads and drinking Starbucks 90% of the time, but actually showed your work. Great content, subbed!
Hahaha thanks! I've seen a few of the Starbucks and salads "Day in the Life"'s floating around
😂, got a lot more great stuff coming!
Lmfao 🤣
@@SherrieE196 Merry Christmas, Christina!
@@swallowedinthesea11 Merry Christmas to you as well ! :)
@@SherrieE196 Thank you!
Working on your job, working on your own dreams,managing a TH-cam channel and spending time with the family. Mad Respect Bro. Definitely got my sub
Appreciate that =) got another crazy vid for ya'll tomorrow!
Sorry to say, but this guy lives like a frat boy. Your bar for respect is pretty low.
@@renamons614 lets see how you live and the type of work you do and the code you write. who knows you might earn my respect as well :)
@@renamons614 Stop the negativity!
He’s a smart man! Now many who watch the video will check out his game. He’s marketing on top of everything you said, he’s going places
1:48 can we all just take a moment and commend this guy for turning around and picking up his camera 10 times. Pure dedication sir.
lmaooo
dude it's amazing how much you were able to balance so many things in your daily life I envy it!
Thank you =) Many more videos to come!
Found the channel today through Reddit. Admirable to see people who do full time work and find discipline and will to work on something else like a game on the side. Also: "How can I horizontally center a div" is a classic, haha.
Haha those horizontal divs always get ya!
use a parent flex container with flex direction column and justify content center
@@vivarantx Or you can just use align items center without flex direction
This dude has a dream setup..... but then a family reunion lawn chair. That's the definition of I can do what I want.
Haha not to mention the 12 dollar mouse and keyboard from target
@@AvatarNickGames if it gets the job done and you are happy with it why not :)
@@AvatarNickGames I mean target has pretty good mice
@@vashstampede8523 💯💯
I had dumped 2 expensive gaming chairs for a 20$ function chair. Productivity through the roof. Gaming chairs felt too comfortable to the point of just me wanting to chill in them.
Love seeing people do what they really enjoyed doing. Thumbs up.
Looks like this channel has been blessed by the algorithm, God speed my friend
That was a lot of hard work. Subscribed!
Thanks! I've got a lot of great stuff coming!
As a independent game developer and game tester
I approve this video
That's awesome man, I wish you the best of luck for your games, Im still young but I really wanna be a game designer when I'll be older, so watching that kind of videos gives me more hope to achieve what I want.
You can accomplish anything you put your mind too! It's going to be difficult and challenging, but it's incredibly rewarding in the end =)
Thank you for this video I'm making a essay on game designers and this helped so much!
your room seems like such a vibe spot
No over polished, the real Hard Life :D i like it, subbed and greetings from Germany.
Thank you! Welcome aboard, I've got a lot of awesome stuff coming =)
I really love your video and I love how relaxed your job is
loved this, thanks for showing the real thing
This is one of my favorite all time videos! I am also a Game Developer so this makes me so happy. I love the chips in the sandwich and I also love wings! Your game looks amazing Nick! Thank you for this video the music sets the perfect atmosphere :)
:) thank you
Ah yes, relaxing and satisfying content from a simple man. Absolutely love it. Ofc subbed.
Thank you :)
Hard working man ! respect
I subscribed for the reason you showed reality in entertainment manner,.
I love it ♥️
Glad you enjoyed it :) I've got a lot more stuff for yall coming very soon!
Glad to see a realistic life of an solo indie dev. Thank you for making this video. 💯🥰
Wow this is so inspiring! keep it up :DD
Awesome video bro, would love to see more daily vlog type videos like this, subscribed 👍🏽
Thanks! Absolutely id love to do more of these types of videos, let me know if you have any suggestions!
This was super refreshing to watch, thanks for this. I work in retail and I’m currently working on a fighter and I recently got all 6 of my characters working!
I’m glad game dev is just fun for you! Cheers!
Keeping pushing man!! I hope the best for your game devolpment!
You are very good with it.
Amazing!!!
I'm from Brazil.
I'm here understand life of games developer.
Thanks for the content!!!
Love the special effects!
amazing game it's looking great dude!
Talk bout a productive day! Great video! Subscribed!
Gotta get a lot done! Glad you enjoyed it!
thanks for sharing this with us
i suggest you lower the background music when you talk.
Wow... You are amazingly dedicated and focused
Thank you :)
New to this lifestyle, and trying to learn as much as I can so I very much appreciate this
Way to go Nicholas ... so Proud of You! Keep reaching for the stars 🌟 😘
Nice video! Thanks for sharing :)
Nice stuff and impressive that u combining your passion with the daily job... my question is : what do u use for multiplayer the new unity 2021 stuff (still under development) or some external package?
That will all be explain in the next video very soon ;)
Great video !!!!
Once again amazing stuff. I’m proud and confident to say that I’m here before you blow up! Well edited, well paced, and well shot (even with a meh camera). I know you’re going to succeed. Keep at it.
Haha gotta love that cell phone camera! Thanks for all your help, gotta keep pushing =)
YES FINNALY THE FIRST GAME DEV THAT SHOWED HE USES STACK OVERFLOW!!!!
Nothing beats a good ole stack overflow copy paste lol
Cool..love the art style.
Thanks! I'm loving the art as well :)
Do you mind giving us a pipeline process video. When starting a new game, what comes first 1, 2, 3... the ABCs. Even if it's a powerpoint presentation?
This is my first time watching you and I already love you!!!!!!!!!
Welcome aboard! I've got more great stuff coming very soon :)
Watched Avatar TLA as a “farewell to Netflix” then IMMEDIATELY watched it again. The only other animation that gets this love is Transformers Prime. Thanks for this great “A day in the life…” vid.
To me computers are just a miracle .. Who came up with the idea of shooting electricity through some plates and then we suddenly can play complex games with people from across the world in real time?! .. It's just pure magic
Hey dude..I am an Indian game programmer and I know how hard this work is...BTW..good luck for your games..❤
Yeah you wish
@@lraoasisbottle3052 say what?
@@hxh9472 Who asked
@@lraoasisbottle3052 why u so mean ?
you dont wonder how much I feel confortable as I looked at you surfing on stackoverflow lol Thank you!
You are so cool! I Love this.❤️❤️❤️
I remember when this video had like 100 views now it has 76k views just wow!!!! I remember when your channel had 770 subscribers now over 5k... Good job man and keep up the good work!
A lot has changed haha, lots of great stuff coming soon as well!
Use the hibernate function and connect all the monitors to a single intellegent power outlet. making you able to say, ok google, turn off pc or something and it put the pc to hibernate and disables that power outlet.
Hahah the life of any developer (especially in these days working from home): typing and eating. Love the disposable plates too so no clean up necessary lol
Begin a game music composer is truly great! But it must be so cool to be able to make games!! Nice video!
Thank you =)
@@AvatarNickGames you're welcome, have a great week!
no way am rewatching it too now
That character illustration is amazing bro if you add more texture to the grasss it would look even crazier.
Can you share what programming language, skills, and etc you use for your job as a game developer? I'm really interested to learn more.
Can you help me?
When making tracking to transfer patches to the Windows folder, an error message appears to me. Do I have to do anything before transferring the patches?
what kind of code do you use to make games? I am in moblie application development in college and I really wanna make a video game :O
This was really cool.. I often have wondered what a day in the life of a video game developer looked like. This was very inspirational and eye opening. 🤗
Putting chips on sandwiches? Absolutely the best! Great video Nick!
Gotta love chips on sandwiches! Thank you!
amazing video hope to learn more from you♥️. do you have any recommendations for pc setup and monitor? for a student who really want to pursue game development and will use that pc even after graduation
I personally really like a gaming PC if you can afford it, it helps so much by speeding up tasks that can add up in time
How can you code so much without burning out? @_@
Gotta keep going if I want to finish the game!
I never comment on videos. However, this video is AMAZING. Great music! I'm a fresh out of college Computer Engineer. I also train Jiu Jitsu and Avatar is amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it! =D Haha BJJ is so much fun
I too want to be a game dev. Great vlog keep it up
Thank you! A lot more to come
so like... do you cut your power supply off every night? or just your monitors? im super confused...
I love your monitor is way bigger then the TV 😂❤
How many hours do you usually work on the daily? Just a simple curious question
One question with the training for developing games. Do they teach the tools of cyber security and so fourth I mean it’s all the computer world so don’t you learn everything even coding and programming and hacking or something?
Nice Vid!
Holy crap! Do you really turn off the PSU switch on top of just shutting down? If so, I'm impressed. I can't be bothered to do anything beyond put my system to sleep lol.
I actually do hahah, my friend who builds these computers said it would help it last longer so I just made it a habit. Haven't really looked into if its true though 😅
Very cool!
i want to programm but how much i earn and my option is only coding pr i can also do game desining for big companies like nintendo?
Thank you for upload like this
Can i ask you something?
I'm korean game programming student
I'm trying to learn game programming
But i'm not goot math, but i trying hard
When you was first learn game programming
Do you automatically think about how to build it and how to code it?
And
When I try to make something, I'm not sure how to code it or how it should be constructed. Should I memorize the programming? Also, if you have to know physically and mathematically, how should you study?
Such a productive day. Almost no time goes to waste. Keep it up!
bro that sofa look so goddamn comfy 2:39
Its the best! Haha
Nice work this inspired me to keep working towards my dreams
Glad I can inspire! Always a good time to learn and follow your passion!
Don’t you need to make a lot of notes? Post-it, sketches, brainstorming... I guess maybe not everyday (?). But when you need, what’s your favorite tool/app for that?
I'm actually SUPER old fashion. I have a small notebook that can easily fit in the front pocket of a backpack if needed.
I'll usually mark pages that I list as "big things i need to do" and then have several following pages for scratch work, brainstorming, algorithms etc.
I've tried apps but I never follow through with them, a nice notebook is always there hard to avoid! :)
@@AvatarNickGames nice :) thank you!
Nice!
What's the name of the software you used to make this?
Im currently in a dilemma about what should i do after getting the degree, whether i should pursue it or go for BEng(CS) or should i drop the plan of studying abroad. Need your help sirrrr
Good video man
What should I learn first to be a game designer. Like do I have to learn code? Also what qualifications do I have to have?
Definitely my dream 🔥
can you make a really violent video game? those are fun. i think video game developers are amazing. you guys bring so much fun and enjoyment to people. thank you
dude really awesome! subbin!!
what app did you use to make the cool background in you game
I’m currently attending Full Sail for Game Design, and I’m looking for tips before my first semester is over
I want a career advice from you ,
I am a creative type person who loves making 2d and 3d arts (objects) not characters , and don't like programming at all ,,, should I pursue my career as an artist (3d modelling,2d art) or as a game dev?
So what happened to the game, was it ever published? It says on steam "Coming out soon" and "Note: Armies Of Ganivar is no longer available in the Steam Store." which are contradictory
I was gonna say “I hope this dude works out” and then boom you put on the gi
Hi there Nick,
I'm very much interested in C++ & gaming industry. While I'm proficient in C++, I have no clue about gaming industry or the prerequisites to do a job as game developer.
I'm looking to pursue masters in U.S coming year. If I hope to be a game developer after graduating with M.S degree, is it necessary to graduate in game development specialization or do you suggest something else?
Your words of advice are highly valuable. Kindly suggest you to guide me on this, as you have already walked this path and became a game developer yourself.
Thank you ☺️
Great video, but just a little suggestion: Sometimes it is hard to hear you speak over the music, so maybe for your future videos you could adjust the audio levels :)
Can you please tell us your journey of learning game development and what resources you used
You turn off the power switch on your power supply every night?
Knew it was Study town the second I saw those floors + squirrels. Maybe we’ll run into each other one day!
Ah we've moved to Hoboken since! But Stuytown was a great place!
Dope video. You have a new subscriber.
Welcome aboard!
Just subbed ! Hey, im curious on your path of starting game dev. Were you self taught or did you go to school? Id love to see a video on your educational background. What you do is so cool and I appreciate your authenticity in this video and others ! Thank you
Maybe try solve p=np before going on to harder problems like centering a div...
Sir, what programming language do you use mostly?
Hello, how mich per day you spent on compiter? My dream job is digitas game artist but i dont want to sacrifice my health
At 6:53 Why do you turn off your monitors and then your PC instead of just turning off your PC and letting your monitors turn off by itself?
no mechanical keyboard, you deserve my like
Haha love it! Some people have been trying to get me to get a mechanical key board, but I like my simple stuff
heyo! fellow game developer here. this is almost exactly what i do on a day to day aswell. except i end my workday cursing technology and vowing to quit to go live in a forest... and then i just play games all night. i try gym, take walks and read often to b "hEaLtHy" here and there but most days ...make games, play games lol
Playing games seeps into my daily routine as well! 😅