To be fair I think that's more like 75% of studios. A ton of developers just move on to a different job or different studio but keep going as a career.
This is super helpful thanks! I'm starting my first game journey after watching many videos of yours and others. I got a VFX guy, I'm a blueprints person, we're gonna make a game in 6 to 12 months for Steam, aiming less then 5 hours, single player, etc. Love all the advice and perspective you two give!
Great and very important video. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge, it's priceless. And kudos on your success with Unicycle Pizza Time! Amazing idea that totally broke through all the obstacles. You deserve this success!
Incredible video and resources condensed in a super concise package. Thanks for making this! It's super useful seeing a video actually getting into the weeds of what tools to use and where to look for promoting your game.
I'm soon releasing my second Steam game, but it took like a year to make cause I have so limited time ( without family, 9.-5 I could have made it in few months), but hey I still made it. Lately I've been just scrolling through my old projects and it's weird how I feel like many of them has potential, but trying to commit back into one is so hard, maybe I should do a video about my "dead projects" and people could spot which has potential.
Hi marnix, fellow gamedev, big fan. wanted to ask you how did you get around the fact that when you send a lot of emails your emails start getting put in the spam folder of people and also how did you get around the daily limit of emails you can get from youtube?
What is weird is that I cannot find the video where you and Thomas talk about people sending hate emails or hate comments. I certainly have benefitted enormously from this channels. Maranx and Thomas are very special people. Its unfortunate that people would say such hateful things. And this is such a great resource. I have re-thinked all of my approaches because of this. I must lay my hands down to how beneficial BiteMe games is to a solo dev. I am literally scaling my project down so that I can release it, and let it fly. Less hate and more encouragement. They are only trying to help. This is top-notch advice. Also many thanks from the USA for making these videos. Much love.
Congrats on the launch, guys!! I wanted to know what you mean when you say that making a 2D game is unmarketable? Obviously I'm saying this because I'm developing a 2D game to get started in video game development with the idea of learning more about making video games and learning 3D in the future, but is it better to learn 2D and 3D now? Congrats again, I like the videos, keep up the hard work!!
I tried to use it, but it's just garbage spam requests of accounts with 18 subs that try to farm keys. This way where I looked up influencers myself was way better and time efficient if you ask me. -M
We used a mix of our own language knowledge, crowdsourcing with our audience (Thai, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian), and the Polyglot Gamedev sheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17f0dQawb-s_Fd7DHgmVvJoEGDMH_yoSd8EYigrb0zmM/edit#gid=2 -M
I see more than 350 000 views. ~ 50 000 views from japanesse audience and ~ 300 000 views from western audience. In the same time you made 75% sales from japanesse audience and 25 % sales from from western audience. The ratio (japanesse sales / japanesse views) is way way higher. My advice : consider more japanesse oriented DLC-s for this game - I think you can make a lot more money with this game, than with your other game in development (the guild-game).
If I understand it correctly, you have a team of 4 devs, working a full time, and made a game covered by many streamers accumulating at least 350 000 views. From 350 000 views, you made 3 500 sales. Total ~ 3 600 $ net / 4 devs = 900 $ net monthly/dev. And this is a succesfull game.
1) You're wrong, we're not 4 people, this game was made with 2 devs 2) You don't understand the bigger picture. This game will keep earning money from now until Steam shutting down, without us spending any more time on it. Stack that with making a few more games and over time you'll build more "passive income" that you can sustain yourself. -M
@@bitemegames But when aiming for a "long term" income with many smaller games, I would rather concentrate on "non trend related" games like puzzle games, card games, variants of classic board games or similar casual gametypes that dont rely much on graphics, and would look very similar in 5 years. The type of product people would just add to their shopping basket because they are low cost and could be startet any time for a quick game session. The games could then point to each other (via the store page or ingame) for a bit more exposure.
@@vast634 I made a puzzle game (memory game with cards) and then I made my research - the average of this type of games made (estimation) 1000 $ in one year of sale = 400 $ net / year = 33 $ net / month. Also, some games (not all) make less sales with the time?
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Congrats guys! you passed the 75% of developers that never release the second game, hopefully next year I will be part of this stat too
To be fair I think that's more like 75% of studios. A ton of developers just move on to a different job or different studio but keep going as a career.
This is super helpful thanks! I'm starting my first game journey after watching many videos of yours and others. I got a VFX guy, I'm a blueprints person, we're gonna make a game in 6 to 12 months for Steam, aiming less then 5 hours, single player, etc. Love all the advice and perspective you two give!
Great and very important video. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge, it's priceless.
And kudos on your success with Unicycle Pizza Time! Amazing idea that totally broke through all the obstacles. You deserve this success!
Incredible video and resources condensed in a super concise package. Thanks for making this! It's super useful seeing a video actually getting into the weeds of what tools to use and where to look for promoting your game.
Good job on the networking. 2 thumbs up. ❤. Good momentum created.
You guys are going to become famous because of UPT, a successful game in 1 month is impressive! These insights are great.
I'm soon releasing my second Steam game, but it took like a year to make cause I have so limited time ( without family, 9.-5 I could have made it in few months), but hey I still made it. Lately I've been just scrolling through my old projects and it's weird how I feel like many of them has potential, but trying to commit back into one is so hard, maybe I should do a video about my "dead projects" and people could spot which has potential.
Hi marnix, fellow gamedev, big fan. wanted to ask you how did you get around the fact that when you send a lot of emails your emails start getting put in the spam folder of people and also how did you get around the daily limit of emails you can get from youtube?
congratulation for this victory !
You are so lucky, that's why you did so well. Jokes :) Grats on your success, thanks for keeping us updated through out the process.
What is weird is that I cannot find the video where you and Thomas talk about people sending hate emails or hate comments. I certainly have benefitted enormously from this channels. Maranx and Thomas are very special people. Its unfortunate that people would say such hateful things. And this is such a great resource. I have re-thinked all of my approaches because of this. I must lay my hands down to how beneficial BiteMe games is to a solo dev. I am literally scaling my project down so that I can release it, and let it fly.
Less hate and more encouragement. They are only trying to help. This is top-notch advice.
Also many thanks from the USA for making these videos. Much love.
Thanks for the kind words
Useful info 👍
Thanks for your content. Wish you the best
I liked this one. Very helpful, thanks!
Congrats on the launch, guys!!
I wanted to know what you mean when you say that making a 2D game is unmarketable? Obviously I'm saying this because I'm developing a 2D game to get started in video game development with the idea of learning more about making video games and learning 3D in the future, but is it better to learn 2D and 3D now?
Congrats again, I like the videos, keep up the hard work!!
The 3D games are more "modern" and possible - will sell more copies.
do you have any experience with keymailer? as a Dev i mean is that worth it?
I tried to use it, but it's just garbage spam requests of accounts with 18 subs that try to farm keys.
This way where I looked up influencers myself was way better and time efficient if you ask me. -M
I saw UPT! almost got featured on Vinesauce but lost out to 'Mommy Simulator' at the minute.
Actually the reason they did well in Japan is the reason theyre in Japan -that's where their sugar daddy (ies?) reside 😂
Did you also use AI to translate the game?
We used a mix of our own language knowledge, crowdsourcing with our audience (Thai, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian), and the Polyglot Gamedev sheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17f0dQawb-s_Fd7DHgmVvJoEGDMH_yoSd8EYigrb0zmM/edit#gid=2
-M
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I see more than 350 000 views. ~ 50 000 views from japanesse audience and ~ 300 000 views from western audience. In the same time you made 75% sales from japanesse audience and 25 % sales from from western audience. The ratio (japanesse sales / japanesse views) is way way higher. My advice : consider more japanesse oriented DLC-s for this game - I think you can make a lot more money with this game, than with your other game in development (the guild-game).
If I understand it correctly, you have a team of 4 devs, working a full time, and made a game covered by many streamers accumulating at least 350 000 views. From 350 000 views, you made 3 500 sales. Total ~ 3 600 $ net / 4 devs = 900 $ net monthly/dev. And this is a succesfull game.
Thats why I say: better do it as a hobby or side activity next to a paying job. Its really about chasing crumbs - unless you get lucky.
1) You're wrong, we're not 4 people, this game was made with 2 devs
2) You don't understand the bigger picture. This game will keep earning money from now until Steam shutting down, without us spending any more time on it. Stack that with making a few more games and over time you'll build more "passive income" that you can sustain yourself.
-M
@@bitemegames But when aiming for a "long term" income with many smaller games, I would rather concentrate on "non trend related" games like puzzle games, card games, variants of classic board games or similar casual gametypes that dont rely much on graphics, and would look very similar in 5 years. The type of product people would just add to their shopping basket because they are low cost and could be startet any time for a quick game session.
The games could then point to each other (via the store page or ingame) for a bit more exposure.
@vast634 those genres usually don't sell as well tho
@@vast634 I made a puzzle game (memory game with cards) and then I made my research - the average of this type of games made (estimation) 1000 $ in one year of sale = 400 $ net / year = 33 $ net / month. Also, some games (not all) make less sales with the time?