The 10 WORST Reasons to Quit Game Development [2019]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2019
- Are you thinking of quitting your game development project?
Making video games is a dream come true for most developers, but as we’ve seen, it can also be a daunting journey filled with new challenges and surprises. Not everyone makes it to the finish line - and some don’t even make it to the starting line!
In this video we are going to look at the top 10 WORST reasons to quit your gamedev dreams.
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Hey, what if you don't have the hardware for making games?
My cousin told me that I am to young to make games I told him that I made several board games before (cuz I didn't have the money to buy popular board games such as lodo chess so I made them to play with my own brother from the same mother )
Ask gamedev, just to let you know my age is 12, i live in the Philippines and I want to be a game developer using godot, but the thing is I'm a bit confused about programing, I learn a little bit of python, but gdscript I don't know, but still I won't give up that easy, and I want to be the world wide record of the most youngest gamedev in the Philippines
We love kurzgezagt’s art style too😊
@@lazyfatdog3581 I’m trying to be the youngest dev in Tanzania, my home nation and I’m thirteen, my bday was like, a week ago
I’m 44 years old and will be releasing my first title in a week on Steam. I started making games 1 year ago with no industry knowledge or coding skills. That title will most likely not make much money but I’ve learned ALOT! There is no good reason to quit.
Smog The Cat The game is called Lexie The Takeover 😁👍
Congrats! That's awesome to hear! Please keep us posted on your game's launch.
i am 35+ and just star learning unity for enjoy and fun ..but i am a farmer and dairy farmer ..i like blender too. plz make videos that encourage us ..thanka
Hey thanks for sharing I too am starting my GameDev Journey learned Lumberyard and Unreal last year. Near to that Age bracket.
I looked it up on steam and it looks nice and polished, but Im a broke Student so Im probably not going to play it anytime soon :(
Im just starting my gamedev jouney, could you tell me wich engine you used
As a broke, introverted, 17 year old busy college student who cant code, this spoke to me.
How are you now?
At 0:29 they show the thumbnail for a ‘5 pc builds for gamedev’ video. That video has not been released. Is this a teaser 🤔
i recommend for the first project to stay alone and just learn to finish something... with more people in the team, the chance that you will never finish anything is increasing
I think otherwise
Depends with who you will be working.
I know pressure stress
I think it depends on the person and the team! I'm probably more likely to remain on task when on a good team, because otherwise I have a tendency to get distracted
Depends if you can find people to work with
1:04 It didn't start with bats, it started with a game engine.
Lol
1:05 So that's the culprit.
lol Corona Engine shuts down.
Your videos are so organized and well made that inspire me so much! Thanks :)
Thanks for the kind words! We're really glad that we're able to inspire you.
thanks a lot. I am a 16 year old game dev and i started using unreal engine when i was 11. I've really been getting better at it. Since the last 2 years i've been making vr tech demos just to get better at making vr game and i'm almost finally done with making my first actual vr game to publish to steam. I've already gathered an audience for my game without the game even being out yet. One of my tech demos on another channel kinda blew up because the physics in that tech demo are almost better than the physics in boneworks. When i first released a sneak peek for the game i've been making it already got over 100k views in just 3 days. I'm really glad it's going so well and you've helped me alot with my motivation. Thanks
Thank you!!
This impires me a lot ... I've been developing games for 5 years and always I need a push to continue... thank you.
When he said *"making videogames"*
I thought he was gonna say
*"is easier than you think..."*
Thank you for this video! I'm currently with the time issue and barely able to get an hour of time to sit at my PC. But this is a reminder that it's ok and I just need to keep at it. Also can't agree more about BTP being a great channel for art and gamedev help. MortMort is also an amazing channel to learn pixel art. Thank you for mentioning these two!
Great video, very inspiring! Your videos looks like it takes so much effort to make, hope that you continue making.
Very insightful video. I like your style very much!
great video as always guys. keep up the great work. :)
Wonderful video, helped me a lot. thx!!!
You're right, there is no need to go to an game design school.
The same goes with art, I've been learning it by myself for 3.5 years now and I haven't been on an art school. You can learn it all by yourself, practice or get used to the program that you are using. I really needed to hear that, thanks!
tatee ;3; i loved to draw from when i was young . Now fell in love with photoshop 😂😅🤣 no school.
Great video! There is some good stuff here
I don't know... one of my reasons is I will never become a full time indie game dev and I will need to switch to a random job to survive and that scares me.
So your fear is to never become a developer ? Why is that?
@@darkbionic1044 I'm scared about people will never appreciate my products, and probably I will never be able to have my own life as is
Thanks for such a cool and inspiring vid. No more excuses, time for me to get cracking... after a good nights sleep of course 😁
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve been using an engine made by 2 people, which they made ENTIRELY in Clickteam Fusion
What its features is it features you to use Custom Animatronics, Mask, Custom Mask Animation, and more.
The only limitations it has is that it’s only a fangame Maker up to FNAF 2, and also has an optional tab called “Developer” for Coding with the language “Lua” for things like the Foxy mechanic from FNAF 1
Love your videos
great and helpful video as always, guys! Thanks for featuring some of my work too! :D
Thank you, It's very interesting subject for me
That made me so inspired, I have all the problems you described and when you revealed each one I be like "woah that's me"
The Videos are amazing, I just found out about the channel and I watched most of the videos and I must say they are really inspiring.
I have been working on a Game for 2.5 years with 2 friends and we are close to a Demo version of our Game, when we finally release the demo ill be sure to give you guys a copy and I can't wait to hear your feedback.
So, where is it?
@@pussinboots9983 Hello, the Demo is available on Steam we released it a month ago, the game is called Alan Sharp.
@@zanemojsovski4926 This mystery horror game?
@@pussinboots9983 Yup, that's the one :)
9:30 knowing that some people cant code makes me happy in a weird way. like the thing i like is something that some other people cant seem to wrap their head around... or just dont want to do. it makes me feel like what im doing is going to help people someday.
Think ya'll forgot what I think is the worst reason why I don't start.
"I've got terrible work ethic"
Pretty bad for working in a team, but as a solodev you can just work on it whenever you feel like it.
Don't let your work ethic stop you :D
@@DonWippo1 Not really, consistency is the ultimate way to go. Returning to code on a whim will leave the project unorganised in the end. It just won't fit together well.
@@TailsWarrior38 Yeah consistency is a fine thing, but difficult to maintain. I'd say it is better to work occasionally on a game than not at all.
@@TailsWarrior38 Better to have a messy but playable game than no game at all.
Wait , this video motivate me a lot 👍👍
I've been making a videogame for 4 years, and I restarted the project 2 times from scratch because everytime I put something in the game, some weeks later I came up with another idea of how I could improve either the gameplay or the performance of my game. Now I'm very proud of the actual state of my game and I think it looks amazing. But now, I wonder if my videogame will have any attention from the public, I don't want my project to disappear, it doesn't deserve to be forgotten :( .
I'm planning to make another little videogame, so the people could know some of my work before I upload my game to Steam, and hopefully, I will get enough to pay my university. Of course I started this because of fun, and it is something that I really enjoy to do yet!
Thank you for the video
does it already have a name?
Thanks!
I was having a crisis one week ago of starting a Game Dev career. 23yo and before finding this career was aiming to another destination while creating a game with a friend. After fighting for what I wanted I started to panic and doubt myself. I know how to code and I’m not bad at art... but was doubting myself. This video made some things clear and reinforced myself. Thank you so much @AskGameDev
so, how are you? Did you reach what you wanted in gamedev? Did it bring you some money?
Other than the ''not having anyone to work with'' reason, I was more thinking about ''I'm not good enough to do some game dev'' or ''What if I'm not capable to manage teamwork on a creative project ?'' or even ''If my coworkers don't agree to my ideas, does that mean that they are not good at all ?'' Manage a team is not an easy task and sometimes that can really make want you to reconsider this idea. But still, more than ever, I want to go through this adventure. I'll take my time to do it and give a good start. Slowly but certainly. Thanks for your video :)
I am 13 yo and I just made 3 (bad) games. I learned everything on youtube.
Awesome job! You have a bright future ahead of you. Keep it up!
thanks!
Idk why but i just wanna take a moment and say, Im proud of you bud! :))
dpix.itch.io/ourcraft here is the game that i am currently developing.
@@GabrielPiveta "Ourcraft" sounds like a communist version of Minecraft dang xD
I recommend GameDev.TV teachers Ben Tristem and Rick Davidson and their courses on 2D and 3D, both in Godot and Unity engines.
In time: @Ask Gamedev, I wanna translate your subtitles to my native language, since indie dev folks in here are starting to thrive.
code is scary in the start, you think that is impossible to learn such hard thing, but with training and perseverance everyone can! The most dificulty part of programming is perseverance, but after you start to take the line even you way to think will be more organized.
6:15 the music aspect of this is often overlooked. like theres some resources out there on music production but not near as much as their is for the visual arts. and besides, in order to learn you need to know what to look for.
Heeeey guys!, It's me! Paolo!, I have been following you on Instagram, and right now I started watching all your videos again!, You guys are truly a blessing! Hope you remember me, say hi to the rest of the team, and have a great week!
Hey Paolo! Great to hear from you again! Hope you're doing well with your game development!
@@AskGamedev well, I have encountered a lot of obstacles, and I feel sometimes overwhelmed, so this video really come to a rescue. I will keep working on my games, and when they are ready, I will send them to you, so you guys can play them. I would love to hear a feedback from you!
@@paologallo4366 It would be our pleasure :)
I've started a game development project that I have put on hold while I made a few smaller mobile games. Getting back into development slowly. The Time issue is the one that always comes up in game dev🙂
This gives me hope
Level Up! is very neat one imo
Most inspiring video I've ever watched on youtube. Thank you so much!
who animate / edit this videos. these are so sickkkkkkkk
I haven't ever given up with game dev stuff as a whole, but I have a ton of scrapped projects that I put aside usually cause I get too ambitious and start having to deal with feature creep. :P
First game I've ever actually put out for the public was within the last month or so, and its an hour-long fangame demo I did in a month for a game jam. Lol.
Do people consider Unreal Engine a bad engine to start off with? I tried Unity and GoDot and had such a hard time finding tutorials that were up-to-date and in general got frustrated with. When I tried ue4's Blueprinting System I've learned so much and have gone so far just by using Unreal Engine 4 its EXTREAMLY easy to understand.
I was not aware of some of these points! I learned coding in school... but still, i feel very mixed about coding... i focus on basic elements of a language... i dont go deep, im satosfied with little, still... i dont continue! I will though... im not that kid who sits frustrated in front of the computer anymore... i went far... i will go even farther!
Great attitude Sebastian! Keep it up!
5:03 of course to get an actual job i need to go to school. and i just started that today... so two years of this and ill be ready. idk if ill get some other job to get some job experience before that but ive got a vague plan.
Bro, I am so lucky that I discover this while I am young. I can learn much easier and has a lot of time in my hands. How could this become such a reason to quit?
Damn! I can pretty much relate to all those reasons!
I do things with inkscape...good for beginners.
I also have the cant code problem but i just try unreal engine blueprint and now im' making games
Please Do Tips To Publish Your Game!!
My dream was to make games so I entered computer science college with focus on game development. During college, I worked 2 years in a team of 4 people on a game called Endless Dream and we also released it on Steam. After release, the sales were just 140$ over one year. And then Steam account got hacked -,-
After this crushing experience, all of my team members never touch game development again. This experience just crushed any dream about game development. Reality kicks in and the worthless life continues.
I am glad that I choose coding and not artist so I can use my skills in non game related fields. But most artists I know barely survive since their wages are terrible. For me game development is just a hobby and I cannot imagine game development as full time job anymore. And for some reason, developing Assets for the Unity Asset store became much more fun than actually creating games.
I quit making games because in Unity, i followed a mouselook script tutorial exactly right, but the mouse movement was wrong.
*thank you*
When I was a newbie at game development, I've spent a good time debating over Godot or Unity. I compared them from File sizes to programming language used. Then it hit me, why not just download the two together? I felt like an idiot. It isn't really that much of a problem to use both since Godot has a pretty low file size and I had a pretty decent computer to handle both the engines.
where do you make your aimations??? :0
What about licensing and copyrights, do i have to worry about those?
10. don't have money
9. i don't have anybody to work with
8. too young
7. don't know what engine to use
6. didn't go to a game desing school
5. i can't make art
4. my game idea won't make any money
3. i don't know where to learn about gamedev
2. no time
1. can't code
I agree that you are never too young for gamedev. I mean, I made my first game when I was six!
That's awesome! What type of game was it?
@@AskGamedev It was a platformer. It wasn't good at all, but it was my first experience making my own game. I don't think I have it anymore though.
I'm f***king 10, and I STILL use something you didn't mention for kids; SCRATCH. The ONLY coding tool I CAN AT LEAST USE and make good rooms for my games (Witch mainly are Fnaf Fan Games). I HONESTLY TRY To Make A Good game, But I usually end up forgetting it. A TON Of people say that scratch is for babies, And I kind of need to quit if this is the S**t
I'm Making.
And I Have To Deal With A screaming Banshee For A Mom.
@@sarabonafede123 No. Scratch is for everyone. Look up griffpatch. he is a grown up making scratch games professionally for a long time
Now I'm giving you number 11 the worst reason to quit game Development I'm stuck learning to program games or design websites plz add it to your video :)
My concern is money. For over 4 years, I kept getting told to pay someone to do the work for me, get a tutor, buy a book, buy a course, buy a $2000 gaming computer, or go to college.
I managed to fix this with code.org to read code, then make a basic project from a Pygame tutorial on TH-cam.
Those selected features did bring to my head some "experiences": "No Money" is for not having money to purchase an adequate computer to work (developing environments require too much computer to install and use smoothly), and I don't own the currency to purchase those. "Nobody to Work With" because almost no people work (and here in my country, most of them don't want) video games developing. "Too Young" is REALLY a STUPID reason, because I was planning my first game when I was 7 years old (currently 35) and I'm still wishing to make it real. And for the end of this video, YES!!! I'm planning to make some games, a fighting one (I would like to call it Tsuken, which will be a franchise with 17 games), an adventure one (La Ciudad del Misterio), some puzzles (Cubipress, Quarth Evolution (with Konami), Sokoban World (with Thinking Rabbit), Multipletris, and more), a rhythm game (I have not planned the name yet), and much more...
That first excuse... I remember back in the day paying $100 for a license to use the Torque game engine, and that was an incredible steal. But I jumped in too soon, and didn't realize that it wouldn't be compatible with the "Personal Learning Edition" of Maya, which previously I had used with UT2K4 mods and a special plug-in. There was no way I could afford the $7000+ to get a full copy of Maya, and Blender wasn't around yet. I never actually did make anything with that engine because I never had a complete toolset for developing content.
Jump ahead fifteen years and I'm building games in Unity for free, drawing art in GIMP for free, writing scripts in Visual Studio for free, and making 3D models/animations in an old and outdated student copy of Maya that I've had for a very long time. (But I could use Blender for free.)
Can you create games on a low end laptop using unity?
what is a good coding laguage to start with for games ?!
Surely is hard to make games, but the feeling of creating your first one is something that we never forget.
for the first point, i literally cant use most engines because my computer doesnt run them, and the price for a new computer (even a shitty laptop) is unaffordable. but even then theres some that are usable, like monogame
Look into the godot engine. It has a small footprint and doesn't take much at all to run it.
I am only 13 years old, I have minimal coding experience and I am still learning. But finding a team is hard by my age and an adult team is... weird for me.
So no money, no team, no art, no animation, and no sound. All I have my coding skills and an instated design and idea.
There are plenty of younger teams out there, keep looking.
Also good luck with your game.
Not having time or money are the best reasons to quit game dev.
You mean, the best excuses...
@@tucq27 Exactly. There's no real reason to not finish a game and launch it if you want to do it. Pick the simplest method that saves time for your first game and save your most challenging ideas for future games. It's important that we change the story we repeat to ourselves in order to really make accomplishments in life.
Hi ask gamedev. I would like to watch the video of pc build for gamedev, but the video is private!
Im about to start a Game Programming course for college! Any tips?
Yea man, smoke as much weed as you can.
Just keep doing what you love
At what cost?
Study Computer Science instead, the overhead of CS is really broad but it turned out really useful for me. Also it's a standard degree which can be used to a lot of things in your life, you never know what can happen or in which situation you may find yourself in as game dev is really unstable career. Never neglect humanities. Do as much activities related to humanities as you can off your grade. Theater acting and writing can be really good and even painting.
I'm working on a game dev company that is really good and my differential in here is that I can code and also understand the art pipeline, while being able express the flux of development really clearly to various people of various backgrounds.
Also enjoy as much university as you can.
Marco widgets is correct!!! Listen I got my Associate's in Game Design and it's harder for me to find a job in the programming industry at all. Your going to want to have a way to support yourself while you look for an indie team or get recruited to a big game company.
Getting an degree in Computer science is better than getting a degree in game design because it's more specialized and it would SEEM like you know more than I would in programming just off the name of the degree which will get you a job that can help you improve your skills as a programmer, while at home you read on game design at your own pace. That's what's going to set you apart in the job hunt, and I wish someone told that to me when I 1st started out.
My reason to not even start is that I don't have a game idea that I would be interested to make.
As a 26 year old going back to school, this video is inspiring. For me, I need college. Currently, I'm going to a public in-state community college and then transferring to a great in-state public university for computer game design to learn, make games with students and get an internship which is guaranteed by this school. Not only that, but the program covers all dev roles to give students an understanding of each other. It's the less expensive approach than going to a private Game Design School which are usually overpriced.
Bottom line is, it's you to you. People dont care about degrees, they care about experience and what you've been doing. So a recent graduate (BFA) with a great portfolio, social networking skills, an internship and experiance designing games with people, will no doubt find a job in the industry compared to a lonely self taught dev with no experience designing games or networking. It's a very competitive world. Do what you must to get ahead. Good luck.
Hi, are you guys from NYC?
Is it good workstation xeon, nVidia quadro k4000 with 16 GB ram? I am trying to create music with fl studio, drawing with photoshop that i love and using Unity for a 2D game. Always loved 2D graphics. Do i need anything else? WE ARE AT 2019 ALL I HAVE SEEN OPEN DORS , OPEN DORS EVERYWERE . I cant get stuck 😅 you find answers everywhere. Man its too good to be true ! BUT IT IS! Nothing its hard. The only hard work here is to everyday sit front of pc and experiment with it. This is the hard work. Not how to learn exemple Unity, photoshop ect... Sit everyday on that chair guys play with the programs , and you guys will get surprised of your selves.
Most important video on your channel
My personal suggestion is to use visual studio C# learn to make apps etc... And after few months you can move to unity.
It's much simpler to start with unity's game objects and components and then move to coding. Unless you already know C# that is.
@@lyncheatingdonut Maybe
do you know any 100% free c# programming course.
Check out thenewboston on TH-cam. He is the best and also fun to watch
The first three r so connected for me cause I'm a 13 year old who cant get a team my age cause not many people in my age don't make games and publishers won't take me seriously so no money and my skills are limited to code and my game needs art so no money so sourcing. And it might not even make money.
so you say you want to make a game but you have no skill and no money? if you are 13 you have lots and lots of time, start learning coding or 3d or 2d art...
I can tell you one thing, everyone has nice game ideas why should anyone help you with your idea? the idea guy is not needed in game development
@@nuclearbeeberman I can code jus nothing else
@@nebyudaniel2018 get some free assets from the internet and just start, if you can create something cool there should be a way you can convince an artist to make you some art. Most of the time it took artists 10+ years to become good and most of them want cash for their hard work
So cool.
For number 9... It's actually better if you work ALONE... especially for beginner/first timer. Lots of project crashed and burned because the other guys just suddenly missing or have disagreement over something (sometimes a simple reason like... her skin is not dark enough).
By working alone, you can make your own schedule, make your own ideas and creativity, and hold all copyrights after finishing and uploading it.
There are free musics and free placeholder arts (which have high quality) out there which you can use... well, for free. The only thing you must able to do is, of course, a little bit of programming. But some game engine out there is quite simple so as long as you want to learn, you should be able to do it.
Want to learn art to make games, you can enroll on a specialization course offered by Coursera.
4:31 noooooooooooo! thats the biggest reason for me tho:(
7:12 oh thats a real bad reason. ive been making games for... not too long but long enough i have a few out there. and yeah you shouldnt go in wanting money right away. if you are looking for attention though, game jams are where its at. the games ive made for game jams get TONS more attention than the ones i just made over a longer period of time.
So positive.
I continue because I love programming, but after almost 10 years and 0 dollar of income, I think it is a good reason to quit. I won't lie, motivation degrades after time if no success
What about music, sound effects
I want ti ask there are site can i learn code free?
Why do many indie devs fail and quit?
How to make career out of this field?
How to make money for living with gamedev?
tbf, game engines etc being free doesn't mean someone can afford being a gamedev, because they need a lot of time, which, if they have no money, they can't spend doing something that won't immediately pay the bills
Once you get past the sheer terabyte worth of things you have to learn it becomes easier or at least more fun
8:11 I was expecting self promotion
i have a great ideas and 3D models to make a game the only thing that stop me is scripting it cost a lot of money i am so mad
I'm a game programmer aspirant. And i lack what you have haha. Wanna collab?
I've heard about a lot o people afraid of coding. I can comprehend that maybe you aren't a code man yourself, but you can make an effort to learn at least the basics and then work with someone else who does know and like to code.
Reason 10: I'm hungry, I need a roof over my head and so on.... So it is a very good reason.
Game dev is my nights & weekends project, I have a full-time job (also as a software developer). You can live the dream, it just takes longer :)
@@mandisaw Other people have a life and non computer hobbies.
@@lars4953 What even is a life, but a miserable pile of secrets?
But honestly, if you are not willing to do compromises for creating your own game, then you did not have any motivation in the first place.
@@DonWippo1 This could be true. Maybee I'm just no willing to spend more than 30h per week on work.
@@lars4953 That really is not much. Where I live (Germany) 40h is average minimum work hours.
no mention of aseprite???
"I'm too old"...?
Make video on Panda 3d
Nah, I'm releasing my first Indie game soon, its a passion project of mine with my friend and an easy to use decent game engine, and I'm 13!