I made my game awful….on purpose

In this #devlog, I discuss my very first game I ever published. It kickstarted my #gameDev career and has landed me currently self-employment - creating video games as a solo #indieDev.
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[@CodeMonkeyUnity]

Very interesting strategy, focusing more on the publishing part rather than the game making part, it's certainly a very important thing to learn!

[@Aarimous]

Ahh yes, the old box full of cords you'll never actually need, but why not keep them around because "what if". Cheers!

[@ScopeCreepers]

What if you and Thomas did a podcast.. and called it Scope Creepers. And uploaded the videos to this channel ;)

[@ThomasStewartDev]

Hahaha

[@DevlexOnline]

Yeah, you bring it good on the point! Develop a Game is one thing. Publish and market it, that's a way more difficult and challenging thing with lots of stuff you can't expect before 🙂
I prepared many marketing stuff before I published my game on Steam and just realized okay, most of that was not really good to use and I needed to rebuild it. Especially in making a trailer and page description you have a good indicator how attractive your game is. Personally I missed to use this possibility :-D but for game no.2 there will the thing go different :-D

[@crxd_dystopyr]

Hey man. Im learning unity and so far have a grasp on the whole position, rotation and collider gist of things. I just wanted to say thank you bro, for real 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I keep hearing start small start small. But i have no idea what small is, considering all the Ideas I have are AAA open world types of games. But looking at your first game, I think I am going to try and re-create that game on my own. Its got so much value.
0 - Game mechanics and level design
1 - Menu
2 - loading screen
3 - sounds
4 - particle systems
things that all games must have. I think, Ill even make a devlog on this. Will tag you once its done.
I think i can do all that with the current knowledge I have plus a bit of extra googling. This video is definitely heaven sent ✊✊🙌🙌🙌🙌 You rock Gee. Thanks 🔥🔥

[@moonstar_connor]

Super good advice! Been doing monthly game jams for this reason and planning on shipping a small Playdate game as my first commercial game later this year

[@JoeTheis]

Very insightful. I am tempting fate by... not taking your advice 😅(at least currently). I have been considering taking a detour to do a "super simple" game (something like the one you showed) including publishing just to get that experience out of the way. This video is solidifying that idea. Thanks!

[@DanPos]

Great video as always 👍 The only "commercial" game I have fully published from start to finish, on the app store, was a Wordle clone and it actually earnt me a decent chunk of change and I still play it from to time on my phone if I have no signal and I'm waiting around haha.

[@a6gitti]

Thnx for these tips

[@littleonestudio]

how many whishlist did you get on your island game.. i am curious to know.. i am also an indie dev

[@yt_superman7383]

I couldnt even pay attention to anything you were saying because I was stuck staring at the little white thing hanging off of your beard infront of your mouth the whole time.

[@ThomasStewartDev]

Hahahaha that’s the last time I drink coffee while recording

[@OwnedByChristian]

me too ahahahh