Видео

Now I can't unsee it! 😭🤣

Oh, I've been dreaming about my dream games for almost 35 years before I came to understaing this january that I will never develop any game until I start actually making them. Like... right now) So, I am happy to meet a like minded person and I want to wish you the best of luck in your enterprise!

I can't believe you turn what would otherwise be a devastasting message of financial pain into something uplifting. Opening up was also incredibly brave of you. I am a nobody on the internet to you, but you have at least my respect and I wish the best of luck to your endeavours. Earnest people always find their luck eventually.

Great to see how open you are about this. I hope you do well with your 2nd game!

Nice video. I made the same decision recently myself. Sounds like we started our indie dev journey at almost the exact same time!

Damn I'm now a bit angry that I didn't come up with that idea! Looks great :) But could you please add an option to make the other players textures a bit transparent? It's very chaotic and hard to see the frog you play. Even with the red arrow.

You are promoting a game with 5 screenshots, 4 of which look almost identical. I'm confident in your team's ability to develop a great game. I hope you'll put just as much effort into promoting it.

"Marketing research is definitely a tiring process, so if you don't feel like doing it Trap Plan could be a great fit for you. They have extensive experience and offer budget-friendly packages tailored for smaller teams, so you’re not overspending. They know indie needs and can guide your project without all the fluff. Worth checking out if you’re working on a game!"

how do you gather a following? Barely anyone even pays attention to what I do

If you have an artistic impulse this is actually solid advice. Learning and saving enough to have a good start is essential, but it's a business so there are always risks. Not taking this advice could make you end up with a career that pays a lot more even compared to gamedev success, but artistically unfulfilled. Normal people wont have that problem, because they don't have a career or their artistic passion leaves them. If you truly are an artist it better for your mental health to be an artist. As a side note artists often have mental issues, but if they have something to strive for like money, success, fame those issues might actually be helpful, while having everything they ever wanted makes their inner demons something they can't escape.

Super tips!

nahh so big i didnt even know about them

What software is this though?

Nice

You make spriting look so easy...

good luck with your next game

Thank you, I hope you don't give up and keep trying because im sure you'll strike gold soon enough

It’s important to keep a stable income unless you’ve got financial backup or steady passive income. Work on your passion projects in your free time or see whethere you could work one day less somehow. That said, this video really hit home-so many people, myself included, get caught waiting for the ‘right time.’ Wishing you all the best in your new career, and Samago is definitely going on my wishlist!

No. I'd rather have a proper job than do programming.

Good video, i very much feel the same.

iPhone problems

Don't quit your job in this economy if you aren't rich or don't have passive income. Do it on your free time. Have some common sense. Don't throw your only income away for something that you have no guarantee to succeed

As a game developer, I can see the pain behind laughing and talking. But I like your idea; it's perfect. I think you need to advertise more and attend events like GDC 2025; it will help you. I hope you come up with a new idea and a new game. Best of luck.

Seems like you did it responsibly, which is different from a lot of people who do quit their job to make games. Good luck with your journey, we should all try to be happy in the end.

you gotta jump for the beef bros

nice Senku fixture

Certified goated video

hey how write ur name ? víle ? how is it man i need to know

Game is looking really cool. Great work!

I like the costume, you should wear one every episode

made in?

I've been working and living from and for the video game industry for 18 years, but I've never released a game under my own brand, something I'm still trying to achieve, but bad things happens, and I also live in a 3rd world country with one of the worst economies and costs of living in the world, so founding something of my own has been slow really slow and posponed many times. Which doesn't mean I won't continue working on it little by little, but it's not the same, and as you say, if you really have the chance, you can sustain your first productions and cost of living, and the passion to achieve it burns you, give it your all and go for it! I know that for some people "I'm living the dream", but for me is not the same, without launching or managing something 100% my own, and not someone else's, with my own decisions and convictions in it. Especially when a large part of those 18 years are in a GaaS, and there comes a point when you want to make other games at a different pace. GaaS are very demanding in their production times, the public expects content and we must create things in less than 1 month, 1 month miracles. Someday I hope to get there too and toast on the same side of the field. Go for broke! Kudos and the best of success on your upcoming game release!

The game looks Great! Hope to demo a game at an event someday. Currently getting ready for online play testing

Samago looks excellent, be good to see a trailer. ive wishlisted (as a fellow steam dev it feels good ) I like the style.

As you so rightly say, you HAVE to do it if it is itching in your mind daily. There is no question, live that dream. I feel exactly the same as you, I had a good job at Rockstar North working on GTA. But that itch did not stop. I now run Tynepunk, I am the boss I make all the new game designs and implement them. BUT, as I am sure you know, you basically have no money, so things run aground very fast. Then your "studio" needs to freelance to pay for it. But they wont control you 9-5, you work on their stuff when you want to. You charge enough to live and work on personal stuff, and make deadlines long enough so you can. Then if you can still afford rent, a few beers, some nice food, wine maybe a smoke of some kind, life is very good. If after all that you have some nice time, you can continue on the indie dream. That is the problem, you need to be rich to live it, this yr I made 20k usd from jan to june, then I stopped work altogether to make a new game. That allowed me to live a good life and code my game 16 hrs a day for like 5 months. Game is 50% complete. All I am saying is when starting an indie studio unless you have funding its like a football game, has to stop for nonsense over and over, it really ruins it.. but we are not millionaires. in an ideal world you would get 1 million to make a game they come back in 5 yrs and u hand it over. respect anyway bro im rambling here on wine etc. I been making games since 90s, even on amiga, worked on gta vice city, made a ton more. keep up the good work.

I downloaded your app. The good thing is that the art style is coherent. The bad thing is the performance. My phone can run PUBG mobile no problem in 25fps. But your tiny app is at 10fps constant. What is up with that lol?

I was in a similar place when I went full-time 2 years ago. I didn't have the best plan or anything, but I can say that this has been the most fulfilling time of my life! Good luck to you!

Great video. Good luck in a gamedev. Let me add my thoughts about quitting a job. There a conditions to check before doing it: 1. you are good in a programming or in art. 2. you have enough savings to live at least 1-2 years without any income. 3. you are ready to lose all your savings to make this attempt (be honest with yourself) 4. you don't have kids or your family members fully support you and ready to the fail. 5. you already released at least one small game and fully understand the process. 6. you already have a game idea and know a strong game hook, you investigated a similar games and the genre and understand a level of the competition. 7. you know the scope and expected quality of the game and you are sure it is reachable for you. 8. you want to do it not because of a hypothetical profit but because you love the process. Please don't quit your job if you have at least one "no". Just make a very very small game as a hobby in a part time.

iirc it says “not available” 7 days after installing it

Ah, that's rough! Stay strong friends, it will be available eventually! 😂😂😂

can you tell me more about the government program for new businesses you were talking about?

This was inspirational, man. I feel like a lot of people get stuck in that "some day" loop. I sure am. Best wishes for your new career! I'm wishlisting samago now.

I am so close myself to do the same. This feeling in back of my head to start something on your own, to build worlds beyond reality. It is a dream. This video is wonderful. :)

unrelated but i rlly like your mario costume in the beginning

That's cool! It looks very menacing!

Work hare brother, You got it🙏

Of course its going to do bad, its a mobile app and a game where someone has to be physical to play it, and its less of a game than it is an exercise app which no one wants to use.

Cool concept for the game/app. Good Luck and keep up the grind!

Hey, you should definitely think about promoting this game among Erasmus students. They are always traveling and wanting to discover new places.

Wow. I was wondering a few months age that this would be a great idea. And there is it. It exists!!🎉