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What deters me: the market and business is overflowing with AI generated, low effort shovel ware. Making any success harder and harder to achieve. Also being twice or more the age of the regular modern "game dev" feels discouraging, out of touch and "late to the game". Especially, when all those high-schoolers release dev logs regularly, got time to spend and make success seem easy (and have somehow a sense of business)

This video has aged like milk when it comes to recommended devices.

If you just use "if" statements instead of "else if" statements it allows diagonal movement in any direction

I chose GameMaker because it’s the only thing that ran decent on my Mac but I honestly love it. It’s allows for mixture of traditional coding and visual coding and is really easy to prototype

I loved Gamemaker in middle school and highschool but since they removed the free version, I don't see a reason to keep going with them when Godot is a thing. But I do have some great memories I gotta say.

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Can you make a really good selling, epic game without coding? I love art but dont know how to code so can i make a game that can be equal to cuphead...celeste...or stardew valley without coding?

Great channel! Thanks for supporting the indie game dev dream. (I'm a n indie game dev)

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Burak Dabak's name is also really fun to say.

In my game I had basically the entire story planned out before I began. (Really only the beginning and end). I knew it was going to be a turn-based RPG but I didn’t know how to keep that interesting. I eventually added the blacksmith which is probably the one spot where the most happens in the game. You can upgrade, enhance, or craft weapons/armors. Upgrading is a flat stat increase, enhancing is a way of changing the code to portray a new idea (a more complex way of saying that it’s just minecraft enchantments), and crafting is just crafting. Besides the basic RPG combat and this system there isn’t a whole lot in my game. I did go out of my way to idiot-proof my code to the point where anyone could work on it. I think the biggest reason I don’t really have anything is because I spent so much time trying my hardest to make the absolute best version of the system that I possibly could. I think my biggest problem right now is beginning the programming with idiot-proof in mind. So here are my steps to prevent this: 1. Start with a basic template of what you want the system to do. In terms of the crafting system, I started with a premade recipe and made the game show each component individually. 2. Make it work. Once you have everything laid out, you have to make it work consistently based on that one template. This is usually the hard programming of the system. 3. Add more templates. If everything is working according to what you want, add another template or replace the current one. In my crafting system I made a different recipe for it to utilize. 4. Idiot-proofing/making modular. This part is optional, since you can just keep replacing the templates throughout your game. If you’re going to have a lot of this system like I am with the crafting system, it’s very likely that you don’t want to write out everything individually. So you create a way to simply input a few values and the entire system changes to fit what you need. In my crafting system, I created this through a convoluted process of for loops and structs. I eventually made everything work through this new process. I love idiot proofing my code since it essentially allows me to be lazy later on. It also is a decent test of my skills. I would recommend doing it this way in case you hire someone that doesn’t really know how to code, as I might be doing since the game is very easy to program with the idiot proofing in mind.

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MonoGame creator's name pronounces José without changing the J to R because it is portuguese, not spanish. Just like in "Joseph".

@askgamedev i miss you guys, you really helped the indie scene! Thank you for all of your help

Yeah Facebook has great Gamemaker communities they help alot in my development

Thanks for the great video! It’s super helpful. I've been using some of these tools and recently added boost app social to my arsenal for better social media content. It's pretty neat for crafting unique game announcements and updates.

Really appreciated these tips! I've been experimenting with boost app social to help tailor my content to what’s hot, and it's been a game-changer for getting more eyes on my indie game.

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

We don't have any of these positions in my team and yet we have been successful in game dev so far!

Where is Part 2?

have you been the voice actor of a youtube channal called sta studio

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If it was that easy? Lol worst advice ever. Marketing is required, it isn't free, and social media blows.

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Painting by number is successful though, although not really a game.

Your channel is garbage, good thing i skipped through this terrible ai written video

I have Gamemaker to thank for one of my favourite games of all time - Pizza Tower. Serving as a spiritual successor to the Wario Land quadrilogy this is one of the most unhinged and Delightful 2d Platformers ever released. It's one of those games where everything just comes together. And paired with an iconic development and Loyal modding community, and you have a recipe for one of the defining games of the Gamemaker engine

Critical Bliss is a great indie developer ☺

thx for the tips these are usually mistakes for beginner indie devs like me xd

I wish I could use a GM1.4 interface on top of GM2 .. I hate GM2's interface, it seems bloated to me.

Make a story game where you get to pick between 4 characters (you also get to name the character before you create a new save] [Prologue part 1] -The protagonist finds an abandoned lab with a giant machine, like all cliche fiction, he activates the machine which teleports him to the Roman era where he finds clothes and a basic weapon. [Prologue part 2] -The protagonist has the choice to do good decisions or bad decisions for the first mission (this will effect the players experience with NPCs later on) [First mission] -The first mission involves robbing a base full of outlaws, upon completion, guards will start chasing and attacking you until you kill all of them or escape/hide. Killing them will decrease your reputation and Honour but if you hide/escape, you get weapons, armour, gold and your reputation increases. (This will affect the player later on) [Chapter 1] -The protagonist finds a Man named Augustus who asks for you to hunt down a specific man and rob his family (if no, you gain reputation but earn no money, if you accept, you will get a special mission and your reputation decreases and if you kill Augustus, your reputation increases and you gain clues to his home which you can eventually rob for lots of gold and armour) Chapter 1 also contains multiple other missions as well as the second main mission which allows you to advance to chapter 2. [Second Mission] -You are tasked with robbing catacombs for a secret key which can unlock a cage where you save Octavius and Alba, a small group of accused robbers who were left with food and water, they both will tell you the location of the real robber, Aellius who has robbed many people. Upon finding and stabbing him multiple times and robbing him, you return to the main city and get lots of gold for the mission. [Chapter 2] -Guards find you and you are put into a dungeon where you have to fight, survive and explore to reach first boss, Goliath Lion, which is a giant lion with a wagon at the back which a large armoured man (who will eventually be a boss later in the game) upon killing the lion, you get the Special 4 star lion meat and 3 star lion fur, which can be sold for a lot) [Chapter 3] -You , Octavius and Alba head out to recruit new members to join you and you goal to either restore and protect the country, or to kill the emperor and take the country yourself. You later find a man named Julius (who will eventually betray the group later on) [Third Mission] -You leave to hunt more Goliath lions where you find a small house holding a group of outlaw, upon killing most of them, one surrenders and confesses he was a spy for the empire. You rob the house and kidnap the spy and return to Octavius' house where the spy, Marcus, joins your group. [Chapter 4] -The house is raided by the red flag, the main group of bandits (the same you robbed and killed a bunch of) and Marcus is beheaded and his head on a pike. The rest of the group is taking into the red flag's dungeon where they are tortured until you find a way to escape, you find your original weapons, free the rest of the group and leave and kill (and rob) the outlaws brutally. [Chapter 5](Honourable timeline) -The state here's about you clearing out the outlaws and welcomes you a small visit to the palace where you get the option to raid the palace with the group or go alone and keep still through the visit. [Chapter 5 (Dishonourable timeline) -The state does not welcome you but tasks you with clearing out higher level outlaw hideouts. Where you meet a new boss, the leader of the red flag, who deems himself Mars himself. Upon killing him, you get a special weapon (Mars' Spear) which does high amounts of damage and return to the player upon being thrown unlike other spears, it also will release a large amount of energy, shocking nearby enemies upon a critical hit. and Mars' armour set, which has unlimited durability and high resistance to attacks and an above moderate health increase. (Overall the set is worth the bad ending) and the ripped red flag banner (which is a 3 star banner and increases Damage and blocking resistance while being used (none that banners do not use up durability) you also gain a new anomalous genetic which allows you to enter an enraged state when in combat (this saves between saves and levels up each time Mars is defeated. [Chapter 5 Honourable Timeline (bad ending) -You enter a boss battle with the emperor and upon killing the emperor, Aellius, who is surprisingly still alive and some outlaws kill the protagonist which gives you the bad ending for the honour timeline [Free Roam] -Free roam can be unlocked if you do not raid the palace during the honourable timeline or if Mars is killed during the Dishonourable timeline Free roam allows access to the good ending as well as other side quests to reduce or increase reputation and/or gold. upon finding the final hideout, depending on the honour level (reputation) Aellius will either beat you up and leave you for dead (dishonourable bad ending) or you end up killing him first and you live life in the Roman era and gain the honourable good ending. [Potential DLC] -Winter dlc (complete New story and clothing for the player) (on discount in winter) -Horrors of the East DLC (New zombie related story and clothing for the player) (on discount on Halloween) -Ultimate Edition (Special missions and 1500 free gold coins for story mode and online mode) -Online Mode (comes with game but is downloaded separately) [Game title: Gladius (feel free to change this if you adopt this idea)]

Apparently Transfinite Dungeon is called Crawl Tactics now. The link still works though.

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No offense, but this narrator voice does not fit the video somehow

I’m currently 13 and I plan to start getting into the game development field when I get myself a computer, I’m looking at being a narrative designer since it appeals to me the most. And honestly this video got me thinking about all the other roles I can choose from but as of right now I’m sticking with narrative design.

I have name for some kind of hero/superhero game with my characters this is the names do far: MIXVERSE SQUAD RUMBLE™ Blend Of Worlds : Merge Arena MMORPG™ Multiverses of mixtures-Hero MOBA™

Nuclear Throne is in my opinion the best indie game ever made. I'm so sad there isn't a sequal coming.

Your first game won't make money, so skip it and start with your second game.

Can you make a VR game?

Would love to watch a video explaining how you edit and create your videos

anyone have sales numbers in 2024

gamemaker is what got me into programming back in the day, nowdays i use c++

I really liked these sources and once I saw hotline miami my ears perked up, going through everything will be a breeze.

Thanks for inspiration, would be create to mention game engines for each game and dev time spent. Battle Royale Tycoon developed in Unity engine is absolutely a winner if its really created by solo developer. Nowadays the indie times is over, without investments and team already impossible to get revenue, especially in mobile markets where only sharks stay in the top who spend for promotion 100 000$+ per month.

Idk why but people are playing it today…. It was planned to release in April 26 2024 and yet it’s April 12 2024…. HOW!!!?!?!!!?!!?