Freelancing in Game Development! | How to get Customers, How to get Started, and MORE!
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- I finally made a video talking about my experiences, giving you tips and tricks, and explaining why you should work as a freelancer in Game Development!
Such a wide branch, an incredibly big industry with lots of potential customers, just waiting for you to show your skills.
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Sykoo, could you do a parkour game tutorial in Unity. It would be much appreciated.
Sykoo hey I am 10 yrs old and I have a computer that is crappy and has low memory left and it has a hole in it(literally) how can I get better stuff in ue4?
Man ue4 is pay program.. if you can pay for program you can buy new pc :D
no i am 10 yrs old and it is not cost money
UE4 isn't a paid program anymore, it's completely free ;)
I’ve recently stepped into the world of freelance game design after being full time for over 10 years. Finding clients is proving to be quite tricky, but admittedly, I naively disregarded boosting my online presence with social media to increase my chances of clients *finding me*. Great video and thanks for the upload!
@@sertan3665 How is your journey going?
Mad skills, bro! I learn a lot about terrain design just by watching this.
How about making tutorials of level designer?
Lot of information. Much of I have heard from other industries, but it definitely reinforces for me. Much appreciated.
OMG! This is gold! What an excellent video @Sykoo. I'm getting information and some "directions" to start working with games, most on the part of level design and perhaps some environament artists. And your video clarified the path for me! I'm excited to start learning different level design editors and more stuff around, like you said about knowing more from the "scope". Thanks for putting effort doing this awesome content.
I will keep watching your videos and your other stuff, I want to become an top tier level designer :P
Hey Sykoo, I just wanted to say thanks for the great videos! You helped me learn Unity a while back and even inspired me to start making my own tutorials recently.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks man, I appreciate it!
Very cool video man, super useful information. I have done plenty of freelance art over the years and I cannot stress enough to any one starting out. You need to learn contracts it's super important to protect you and your clients. I wish good intentions were everywhere but there is plenty of people that will take advantage of your ability. So please google/learn standard contracts for your industry. But again really cool video, I have recently considered shifting into game development (modelling, environment design and concept art) and the info here was interesting and informative. Thanks and take care, keep the good content coming.
Heya Sykoo, thanks for making this video, it's very helpful and good to know and learn from successful developers :D
Thankyou So much for the TIPS!
I have more than 10 years as a freelancer and frankly they should renamed this to slavelancer, a slavelancer typical week is composed of 8 days and you cut in your sleep hours to meet deadline and often even if pro you will get peanuts for your work.
The author here is not giving you the real picture about the industry and if you want a social life and a quality life stay far aways from the video games industry.
Hm... I think if you target game industry you know its hard work... If you in game dev you are mad for games and thats it, if you here for money forget it :D
Peter Tremblay wjat the fuck else are we suppose to do with our lives? Calculus engineering and fucking science and Physics reading bullshit???
@@platinumpineapple9943 You know with the help of these ''bullshit'' calculus and ''bullshit'' physics and science we are dreaming to go to Mars.
Ship Sarkar yes good in all for going for mars however, im focused on getting a career, and that bullshit i cant stand doing. and plus every fucking field nowadays is competitve which is why it doesnt worry me going into the game dev field as a visual effects technical artist
@@platinumpineapple9943 You do know you're going to need the "bullshit math" for game dev as well, right?
How can I get all those rock and tree prefabs you used in this video? Great explanations btw! :D
3 way..1.Buy 2.Creat yourself 3. in unity asset download free but it will be simple ones. There are few really good ones, just search :D
If I start out, how much money should I ask in terms of it being expensive and also not making it so cheap that he/she might think I'm not going to do the job so well and also to help me pay for personal survival?
put a higher Like Goal bro like 100 or something
yeah, less than 100 is pretty low and easy to break!
Thank you so much for this video!
How to calculate the price for a game project.
Yeah nice! love it
I'm 14 so it's pretty hard for me to get jobs
Modding is a good way to build experience until you can gain the experience and skills needed to work professionally. Just find a game that you like (even old ones) and see what the modding community is like.
I made a couple of maps for unreal tournament(the new one)
So what you do is create and develop stuff to build a portfolio, Then when you are of age you apply for jobs with the portfolio you built.
Publish games, build your portfolio. Clients will usually ask for your previously developed games and base their decision off of that.
What assets do you use in making these awesome environments?
Which game dev software is this????
sykoo Teaches us how to use cinematic of unity
great video can you do vid about finding game ideas? thx
Hey Sykoo thanks for the video. Did you made all the game assets that u are using? Or is there a good free asset library? Thanks!
Hi Sykoo, I recently graduated college and my major was game design. Right now, I'm job hunting for anyone who are looking for Unity developers because I've been using Unity for 3 years. While waiting for a reply from various applications, I'm polishing my skills and learning how to use Quixel. So I decided to freelance in game design because a few months ago I want to finish some side projects that I started a few months ago. Can I contact you, so I can send you my portfolio?
Thanks for your tips, i've just started to try to work as a VFX artist and I just have a question, how can i find clients? Nice video
Did you find out how to find clients? Because I really want to know how to
@sykoo hey there brother. Is it irrelevent to watch this video now? Or is it only small part relevent?
Either way..the video is really well made.👍😇
Good video as always :P
Your feedback is their feedback! Remember that they have to show something to their investors to continue getting the moneys to pay yous!!! haha :)
i have some some problem with unity that i can't rotate a cube 90 degrees and when i did try to change texture it did not change at all
Oh god.. so many platitudes, so little useful information....
Did I miss it or did you really not answer the first question in the title - how to get customers?
You said how to present oneself and how to treat customers, but not how to get some... you said if you have more diverse skills, you'll get more diverse jobs(scope of support) - well duh ;)...
Also listing the different types of companies that will offer you work with or without contract etc. isn't really answering the question - is it? There's no one offering at the beginning. People can't setup their social media and wait till somebody finds them...
The closest thing to really answering this for a beginner was when you said you gonna search and find clients and offer solutions, but where do I search? where do potential clients reveal their problems I can offer solutions for?
"It's important to find a customer, but it is more important to find more than one customer, so it's important the customer leaves the skype conversation with a smile" - what? how does that bring you more customers? Sure there can be a referral once in a year - but you didn't even explain where to find the first customer.. or the second.
I feel you talk about work ethic here, but that's the same for every job - of course you will be more successful if you have a great work ethic, but you don't answer specifics for freelancing in the game industry, which is what the title promises.
Just as an example.. the rant from 10:00 to 12:35 - so many repetitions, so much fluff, so little information.
What you basically said in this vid is:
- Have a good work ethic - it will pay out in the future.
- Have good communication - it will pay out in the future.
- Know your shit.
- Increase your skill scope, because it increases your work opportunities.
- Show off your stuff - it helps to convince new customers you know your shit.
- You will have different types of customers - with or without contract, returning customers, new ones.
- Sometimes customers will find you(not happening at the beginning), sometimes you will find the customers(no details given)
What is missing is:
- How to get customers
This would be a good video, if you'd change the title and cut the repetition, so the information is presented in 10mins, but it doesn't deliver on what the title promises right now.
Please don't take this as a personal attack - I'm just trying to be straight and not sugarcoat things.
This is exactly what I want to know too. Well at least I got some encouragements from his videos by learning that it is possible to start as a freelance game dev...
I jus wana ask when you finish your project for clients and say your game in 4 or 5 gb how do you send this big data game to them ??
Hey man. Do you work freelance?
I need someone to develop a game map ...
I'd like to see more videos like this. (what is the outro music btw?)
Thanks dude. 😁 What is your pc specs for level designing?
Sir I want to know how to contact the unity for freelance..
So please help me
By the way you are the best...
where do you get your assets?
Is definetly not that easy specially in the states, there's a lot of competition
In my country India, everyone thinks that gaming is a waste of time, even there's no game developing company to stand on world standards... I want to prove the Indian society that we can achieve many things by playing and developing games, I want to start my own company... Need help... Pls advice me 😐
Yes brother I can feel your problems
Could your do a video on how to get into game development when your young. Like in teen years.
Are you really asking it now after seeing video?? Did you even listen the hole video??? He dont say you have to be 50 years old... Make youtube channel, make social networks acc, make videos about how you are good, your age not important.. your skill is...
hi figh ,my name is sam too XD
What is that intro song called
You said about English skills, so you're not a native English speaker? If so, where are you from?
The video is way more useful than the commentary.
nice video
Good video! :D
Hi! awesome skills! are you still open to receiving freelance work?
umm the thing is , in level design and games in general
aren't models with triangles like the ones u use in the videos heavy
why when i see a game model it has triangles , but when i make one i make it all quads and use it as all quads... i never asked people to explain this so now i am :)
Because you are making with blender?? It auto creating in quads, in preferences you can make triangles... unity uses triangles, but its auto converting from blender or 3dmax to unity in asset transfer. Just make in quads and dont worry :D
I cant even program a game yet hehe
what i need to studi to be a programer
first learn program :D
If you mean what course should you take in college, I recommend CS/CompScie.
I think it depends per school, but we take java, C++, HTML, CSS, and databases, all of which are basics of the languanges.
Ian Henrick Letada you should take this online unity course
hi sykoo, can i contact you from email?
u are the best
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