Was Self-Taught Game Development Worth it? | Gamedev tips & tricks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2023
- I develop videogames since 4 Years now and in this video i want to show you wether it was worth it or not
Thanks a lot for watching and for the support over the last years so have a good one
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Just here to say thank you again to everyone who watched my crappy stuff during the last 4 Years xD.
PS: Did you have a weird fragment in the video as well at 0:26?
Yes, i see it too
Great video. I'm starting from the opposite end of the scale to yourself! I have the van and solar powered pc but am now starting on my coding and art journey. No desire for a career in industry, purely for enjoyment. Keep it up and the van will be yours soon enough!
Sometimes the internet is crazy to be honest. I mean what are the odds of me uploading a 6 minute video about gamedevelopment mentioning the thing about the van at like minute 6 and you come across the video and watch it until that point where I mention this😂
I went to Scotland this summer with a friend and we lived out of a van for like 4 weeks and it was such an awesome experience. That's where my interest in all that came from so it's even cooler to hear from someone who has actually done the stuff I dream about (Solar powered Pc in a Van)
@@LionDev haha yeah! Crazy that I'm currently in France watching your videos too. Tiny world since tech got so good. Scotland is amazing, we did the same thing! Hope you turn that dream into a reality. The UK is a nightmare for vanlife, as soon as you sampled Europe in your van you will be spending months out here like us.
keep grinding man, love your videos ; )
Thank you really appreciate that😉
I'm starting Game Dev right now, and I'm afraid of this path knowing that almost everyone in this industry keeps failing for years before making a good game, keep it up.
Yeah it's a bit scary for sure. However there are a few ways to limit that risk of taking forever to create a good game. I feel like the key really is starting small. Do some game jams, try out different engines, find the tools you like the most and maybe you stumble across an interesting game idea while doing this. Defenetly learn your tools before trying to go into big projects.
Could be wrong here but that's what I've learned during my journey.
Hope it helps and thanks for the comment 😉
If you want you can join my discord server and we chat a bit about it. I was thinking about a small challange maybe just to get something going.
Edit: Wait you already got 2 videos that are doing quite well. You might not even need my help at all xD
@@LionDev I'm sure I did reply days ago but I cant see my comment, thanks for your reply and already joined your server 🙌
What are you here 😅
Nice video! It's really cool to see the whole picture of what you're done over the past years. I can't wait to see what's next!
Thank you for beeing a part in that whole picture xD
How could you say no or not yet? Unless you are giving up on game dev entirely you are still a hell of a lot closer to being the developer you want to be because of the experience you have gained thus far. Without those four years you would inevitably make the same mistakes you already made and probably not have any more success than what you have already accomplished
Yeah that's true but i corrected that statement in the end of the video. Wasn't the best choice of words in the beginning ;)
The only think i would say "no it wasn't worth" is actually project mind since it was a real timewaste. Didn't learn a lot but took an incredible amount of time but your point is defenetly true.
Thanks a lot for the comment
Very underrated keep up the good work
Thank you ;)
insane editing ! Thought you were more than 50k subs 😅
Thank you maybe I'll reach it some day😂🤷♂️
Keep up the good work! As someone 10+ years older than you, trust me that you're just starting your journey, and you still have a lot of time to figure things out. Even if you'll spend another 10 years working in some other field, nothing will prevent you from getting more gamedev experience. I started getting into graphics programming only a year ago, but I'm still excited for all the new possibilities. And you have already achieved so much more on this path
Thanks for the kind words. It's always nice to hear about other people's journey and experiences so thanks again and best of luck on your own journey😉
good luck i been wondering if unity or unreal engine is better in price?
I guess Unreal but i didn`t check anything so better inform yourself and see what fits best for u
And if you ever publish your book, i'd love to read it!
I already have a plan regarding that topic but i'll care about that after Hues of Hope i guess ;)
I hope my channel can start turning out like yours. You're an inspiration!
Thank you that's awesome to hear but are you kidding me? Just checked out your videos trying to find things to improve and as a first impression you are doing pretty good stuff. The only problem i could thing of might be the titles or the thumbnails but i don't want to give bad advice since i don't know your analytics.
In my opinion you should be able to improve your content a lot by looking at your analytics the right way.
Just a few examples:
- Retention after 30 seconds lower than 60% -> Try out a different kind of hook in your next video to get between 60%-70% after 30 seconds (all my videos above a few hundred views lie in that range)
- Clickrate bad -> Don't be afraid to change your Thumbnail or Title
Also just cut the crap. If you see in the retention graph that viewers leave your video consistently it might be because of to much talking around. I actually had that with the original intro of this video. Only 49% were watching at the 30 second mark so i decided to cut it in TH-cam itself. Turned out as a good decission i guess xD
Anyways neither do i know what your analyitics look like nor am i a TH-cam expert (with 900 subs after 4 years that's kinda obvious) but i hope i could give you some useful information.
Just don't be too hard to yourself and don't compare your success to other peoples success. I did this a lot in the 4 Years of Game Development and it's defenetly a unhealthy habbit.
Don't compare but learn from others how to do it better and if you want to learn a bit more about that i made a video called How to succeed as a self taught gamedev where i go over this a bit more detailed and this was just a short summary.
Hope that text is understandable and doesn't contain a lot of spelling mistakes xD
Anyways thanks again for your comment because beeing an inspiration for someone is always great ;)
@@LionDev Thanks for the advice! I realized my thumbnails and titles are sometimes too short so I've tried replacing a lot of them and it's turned out pretty good. I've never thought of just fully cutting out the bad parts in yt and I might actually do that with one of my videos. I still have a lot of time for my channel to get popular so it's just onward with the grind!
if you are going to keep making games in UE, please disable the blur or make it a option to turn off
Will defenetly keep that in mind. Thanks for the feedback ;)
my comment was in the video 😆
Indeed because it was a good one 😉
Talented youth, 20 years old !!!
thanks ;)
Hope you make it to the choppa (the van)
Thanks means a lot to hear this right now.
6:25
youre welcome
Link comming in clutch to cut the crap straight to the answer xD
@@LionDev For all of us Links out there with a 0.01 second attention span I gave them the answer so they can decide whether to get hooked on the video :p
OMG i had the wrong time stamped lol joke fail
I have fixed it@@LionDev
Awesome thank you 👌😂
How old are you btw?
20 i think i mentioned it a bit later in the video ;)
@@LionDev you sounds kinda like 15-16 years old