Becoming A Game Developer In 2 Years Without Going To School - Devlog
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- Join me on my 2-year journey from cluelessness to a career in game development and RUclips. In this devlog, I'll share my story, the things I overcame, and the lessons I learned along the way. From finding my passion for game development to turning it into a full-time job. Whether you're just starting out or looking for some inspiration, this devlog is for you!
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Links To Where I Hang Out:
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Stopped Working
02:00 Started Hunting
04:22 Started GameDev
07:14 Started RUclips
09:44 Conclusion
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Be sure to check out the roguelike game I'm currently working on:
ruclips.net/video/wafu_TKRZ4k/видео.html&ab_channel=HelperWesley
Congrats! This is such a cool story. You rock bud, nice work :)
Thanks! This video was a lot more work than my usual videos.
I'll be glad to get back to just showing screen recordings of my work. 😅
What an interesting journey. Nice to know a bit of the behind the scenes of Helper Wesley. Great end of year vid too.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was so much different to make than my usual videos, but it was worth it as a 1 time end of year video. 👍
11:31 totally agree with that final comment. Some people pretend that hard work is all you need to suceed and more cynical people will stay it's only about luck, but you actually need both. You need the hard work to try your luck again and again and when luck strikes, you need to be ready, cause you don't know when it will actually happen.
Exactly! Hard work is definitely part of the equation, but it's far from the only factor.
I actually learnt this from the anime "Blue Lock" which is about football and in one episode, everyone say that he (a player) scored the final goal an won the match by being lucky. But, he replies by saying that if he was in the right place at the right time, it was not because of luck but because of his will to win and perseverance.
@@Otong5 Nice same!
The most helpful channel for me at the moment! Thank you.
GDevelop is the greatest gift to my laptop homescreen
Helper Wesley is the greatest gift to my RUclips feed
My son and I have been messing with game development and your videos have been a lot of fun to watch together. Keep on doing great work!
This is a decent story, glad things turned out well for you, I hope you have a good future in game development
I was almost about to quit game development because of what ever I try to make, I either put lots of effort into it and no one plays it, or I just get stuck with nothing working. Thank you so much for this motivation!
Our thesis was mainly developed in gdevelop so all your tutorials and devlogs were really helpful. Keep up the good work and looking forward to your future projects in gdevelop.
Thanks! I've really enjoyed being able to help people! 🥳
Watching your video, I understand very well the vision you have of a job, and I share it too.
This video is a beautiful journey. It's nice to see your background, and to have you as a teammate :)
That explains why we work so well together. 😉
It is great to see videos that don't sugarcoat getting into the industry. Thanks for continuing and creating such well made tutorials!
Amazing video and story. That one video about Deltachase was what introduced me to Gdevelop. Now i have a mobile game I'm releasing soon that I made with it! Cannot thank you enough, your videos here and tutorials over on the Gdevelop channel have kept me motivated to keep moving forward with this game engine. Now im working on my first devlog 👀
Your videos have inspired me so much to get back into game making. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for your content, it really helps and inspires to find a better way
Congratulations on your achievement, great story , props on your closing , even if it’s a hard pull for many it the truth of this journey. Wishing you the best on your game dev journey . Earned another sub .
Great history, so happy you got the job, no one could do it better :)
Thank you! I'm happy I got it too.🥳
I really was torn between making tutorials or making devlogs, thankfully I didn't have to choose. 😌
Great story and positivity, keep up the great work!
Well done Wesley on your journey and another great vid.
It's really nice to hear your story and how you got to this point, inspiring stuff. Great video 😊😊
Oh boy... Your video made my eyes fill up with water. Your story is very similar to mine, without the still part of succeeding and living your dream. But I have faith that this day will come and until then I will work hard for it. Your conversation at the bar wasn't silly or cringe, it's just the truth that people insist on not seeing her. Are we really going to spend our lives waiting for the day off to work and enjoy a few hours, a day or two and go back to doing things we don't want to do? It's not called life. I'm glad you found your way, my friend, just as I hope that other people will also wake up to this reality (that life must be lived) and also free themselves from those bonds that, for the most part, they themselves have created. And finally, when you say "luck" I see divine providence. Stay firm Wesley! You're an example to all of us. A big hug from Brazil!
This is such an inspiration! Thank you so much! Subscribed 🥰✨💞💞
This is a great video. It's really nice to hear your story.
Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
Simply inspirational. You’re living the dream. I found GDevelop when someone mentioned it on LinkedIn as an easy and free option to teach their students about game development at a remote location without access to high speed internet. It’s a little known fact that when education adopts a product, the rest will follow. So it might be good to promote this amazing engine in the education space. Personally, I am an instructional designer, and am planning to include games on my lessons to teach grown ups about real life skills. Would love to see this engine take off and maybe even cross over to real 3D.
dude you just made me back to game dev , i was just at the control panel to uninstall the gdevelop and quit game dev, Thanks for motivation !!
I really appreciate your approach to the whole concept of becoming a game dev as a side and future career change. I am a civil engineer 10 years into my career and looking at game dev as a serious hobby/side business if at all possible. You’re video is 100% the most relatable thing I’ve found. Thanks for posting this and following your personal goals and sharing them openly!
Love the breakdown of time spent. Realistic expectations based on one experience.
Luck is preperation meeting opportunity. It's not always 50:50, but you can't leave preperation behind. This is the most valuable lesson I have learned in my life.
Good story, really appreciate your reflected view on your last two years :) Keep it up!
Despite so much of it being luck, it's undoubtedly all deserved! You looked and you looked, and you found the corner that you felt most comfortable with, and for that I think everyone that's been following you is unbelievably proud of.
It's of note too, that I'm sure plenty of people are starting this journey with your help as well! Silently, since most people don't tend to comment, you'll never know what portion of those views will count towards another gamdev sprouting up.
May an unfathomable amount of support go your way! It's been a treat watching your channel grow, especially knowing how much it means to you.
Keep doing what you do!! Your love for this definitely shows, and it's wonderful seeing how fast you improve on stuff.
Fortune n' plenty of games be upon ye, Helper Wesley :]
Thank you! That's really great to hear.
It really help my momentum, knowing that some people find my rambling interesting and worth watching. 👍
This video is so inspirational to me, you have no idea! Congratulations on your success and thank you for sharing it.
I'm happy people can get something out of my experience. Glad you enjoyed it. 👍
I discovered a few months ago whilst trying to learn Gdevelop and I'm so glad I've stumbled across your content, I'm glad you're happy with your job!
All the best to you!
Your style of video is so..... honest.. Like, your struggles and successes make your content so enjoyable and watchable. I'm glad that I found your channel and I eagerly await more :)
Thanks. 👍
I try to make videos that I would want to watch. I don't like the polished "everything worked out perfectly" sort of videos. I prefer seeing what where people struggled and what they did to fix it.
Since that's what I find is the most fun about gamedev. Finding bugs/design issues and coming up with solutions.
@@HelperWesley well you absolutely manage that. And after every one of your videos I boot up my game engine of choice and make something. Even if its something small 😅
I have learned so much from u about Gdevelop and programming and designing and so much more I just want to thank u and keep up the hard work.
I like hearing the stories of how people got to where they are. Game Dev journeys are very interesting to me.
It's kind of crazy to think 2 years have passed. My first gamejam was also your first! Still remember you giving great feedback on a bunch of games :)
That jam feels like forever ago, but I'll definitely never forget it. It was a great time! 👍
So inspiring ❤️
Most likely everyone here I have a dream that is similar to yours... the hardest part is conciliate your work that consumes most of your time and energy and make the gamedev part aside that. good luck to all of us.
This was a great video! I had pretty similar experiences as well with figuring out what I wanted to do in life and doing jobs for the sake of money or simply just to pay rent. I was spending a lot of last year and this year soul searching on what I wanted to do. It wasn't very long that I found GDevelop and I was pretty much sold on game development for a penny. Aint much more than that aha!
Great video my man 💪 great journey, very inspiring 👊
Vimjam 1 feels like a lifetime ago. 👀
Helper Wesley it really does. One of my favourite Jams though. You've come so far since then HW 👊
@@XanderwoodGameDev 👊
Keep going friend ❤️
Every thing will happen for some reason 😉❤️
My grandpa use to say to me that, "Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity."
I can relate so much with that search of doing something meaningful and not just tedious. Thankfully I found myself in the Psychology, just graduated. I want to be a game developer as a psychologist. I already know a little of Blender and am learning Godot too.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Nice video really enjoyed
Exactly!
nice video! (This adds so much to the lore)
To the LORE!!! 🤣
Great video!
Bro I’m glad you found it because I’m about to be fighting that same battle. After Highschool ima try my best to be a game Dev. So inspirational man
Right on!
Are you planning to go to school for it?
@@HelperWesley I have the marks but I'm not sure if I really want to work in a triple A job. rn it looks pretty bad for those people: below average pay for the work, long hours. The dream is obviously to make the next stardew vally or hollownight. I'll hopefully find somewhere in the middle... like you.
@@monstereugene Well going to school doesn't necessarily mean you'll work in triple A, it just means you'll have a more structured learning environment. You could still go indie after schooling.
Good luck with it anyhow. 👍
Funny how the last game I made was called Gary and wasn’t aware of the Pokémon thing, crazy hey.
Awesome video bud, looking forward to our next battle though I feel you have grown too big for me to keep up now 😂
If we were judged on videos maybe, but your games are always better than mine. 😅
A little peek behind the scenes! I like it
Felt like a good way to sum up what has happened over the last couple of years. Too much for a single video of course, but I think those were the key points that got me to where I am now. 🤔
Nice Story. You deserve it! I still hope to see you finish / remake your Subway game at some point. It had s nice Metro 2033 // - vibe going on 🤘
Maybe some day in the future, I did love the idea behind it. It was just too ambitious.
Maybe one day I'll have a small team and we'll tackle it, after some changes in scope and mechanics. 🤞
@@HelperWesley All The Best 👋
I’m so inspired (I haven’t started watching it)
Great to hear more of your story! It's cool to hear that you work at Gdevelop, that's awesome and a perfect fit for you.
🍺Here is to another 2 years (and then some)
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This is really inspiring :)
Personally i perfer written code but i still love gdevelop. It was the game engine that got me into programming. And i found it through you ^-^
That's awesome! What engine are you using now? Godot?
@@HelperWesley Im actually learning C++ for game developement without a game engine :)
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca
Why can't I give you more Likes? A great video and the part about luck and success is something tha tI've heard before (not exactly the same words, but similar). Right time, right place, if you are prepared, you nail it, if not, well bad luck...
Lol, I'll email RUclips and ask them to add a second like button. Maybe to replace the dislike button. 😅
5:02 I am not a game dev yet (I will start to learn once I get a good enough pc), although I knew exactly what you were going to say
What you said during the last part of the video, that all those things happened because of "luck" is partially true, but also not very true at all.
Those things lined up for you because you SHOWED UP. In fact, most of "luck" is just showing up. You didn't just drop everything and become a "game dev" who dabbles around in engines and never really finishes anything (guilty as charged) but you became a game dev who made completed projects. That alone puts you ahead of 99% of indy game devs already. Then you showed up to game jams. You participated and put yourself out there and got invited to progressively more exclusive jams. It wasn't "luck" that the other guy wasn't invited. It was because, again, you showed up. And for whatever reason, he didn't.
So that is the moral I think. A lot of people think you have to get lucky to make it in certain careers. But the truth is, you just have to SHOW UP!
Good vid👍
Damn, I wish you were more personal in your normal videos instead of just being a narrator, I had no idea you had an entire origin story lmao
The thing is in most of your videos you usually just read a script and talk like an npc, like first I did this and then I did that, and I don’t know about you but for me, making a game is absolutely never that simple, there’s always so much more depth you could cover in each dev log
Anyways, its super interesting to actually connect with you a bit more personally, this was for sure a banger video!!
I definitely like talking mostly about the game and the work I do, talking about myself always feels a little awkward. 😅
But I did a video like this for my 1 year anniversary on RUclips, and I'll probably do a more personal video like this once every year. 👍
Ah , yes, the random coincidences landing you a dream job. Not that different here. Started wasting time after school/university with MMOs. Couldn't study what I originally wanted, because my grades were like 1/10th too bad, went into computer science, kept playing, kept complaining about things I didn't enjoy or considered wrong, then one afternoon a random offer: "Can you do it better?" - I said "Well, no, not sure, but know what, I could try it just for fun, no obligations." They accepted, it worked out, the whole thing spun into a small independent agency, and we're constantly growing, because we might be an underdog, we might be not too well known, but we still kept that unique and coincidental "I don't like it, maybe I can do better" attitude. And too bad I can't go more into detail, because there are so many more coincidental things involved, including childhood fantasies, etc.
I would love to spend so much more time on developing games (till now I work on my first game as a hobby/passion project) but I am a Marketing Student and most of the time I have to study or work :(
We both found out about Gdevelop from the exact same video, and I think that's pretty cool
It's a small world after all.... 🎶🎵🎶
It would be cool if GDevelop has some type of free arcade like how construct 3 has or a way to share game source like constructs 3 when you can just export the C3 file
You can copy, zip, and then share the game folder with a friend with GDevelop.(Sounds like that's a little easier in Construct)
And GDevelop does have a website for free GDevelop games, liluo.io. 👍
Nice journey
Hopefully it keeps going. 🤞😅
dude i totally loved your history...
I'am a 29 yo programmer that dream to make games for living since i was kiddo. I mean, remeber when you are a small kid and when people tell about jobs, mostly in school, everyone say something like medic, cop, actor or something? In that time, i tell pilote racer! no doubt, but not much after that, My close cousin has a computer where he was playing age of empires... i never though about video game other way than magic that i just want. Before thant, i only saw my cousin playing soccer video games and that shit sucks... After the age of empires a entire new world opens to me, i even got games at home, i try video games, but only had 3 console my entire life, some old nintendo i don't care the exactly one was playstation 1-2. But i dropped really fast in any console. At fundamental school with 10 years, i start making my own OTserv, in next year i was decompilating that stuff to modify code, basic stuff, but did! soo little after i already want to make my own games from scratch... In 2011 i was trying to make games using Java due to Minecraft! but noticed that my programming skills are really poor to go over some light modifications. In high school I entered a professional class of 2 years to learn programming. Note, where i live, in that time has no one class of game making, pure programming is the closests i got. I finished that and keep difficult to make games, i mean, i can make screens, stuff move arround but is too raw, no sounds. Adulthood in view, and the need to get a job, i just drove into the same class but college degree. And entering the class, at first week i got a job at some company, since them i work as developer and not get me wrong it is okay, but is far from my own dream. Until now i want to move into gamedev, but my life kinda stuck me, i have this health issue that cost a lot and not want to be a weight to my family, soo, i need a good payment, shift career now is impossible... this is why i make games as a hobbie, but never finish anything, never could use a lot of hours peer week. I glad people like you, with this much of passion exists. I even did a unity class, made some really nice small games on that, but no one was published. Yet, i not confortable with making game on unity, or even on others engines. I'am making game using Javascript, and want to post some videos of it almost already, but i'am making lots of smartphone videos to send to friends and stuff, they are really bad shape quality to post as a devlog from the pass. I hope i can start making my project into devlog soon as possible. This project i started early in 2022, but has the most quantity of mechanics i did intoy one single project ever... Inventory system, save system, active weapons, powers that act as automatic weapons, buff powers, level system, that increase levels of itens in use and those buffs, is a rogue like soo you can imagine the idea, has a death system and a flee system from match, a entire different way to work with the big boss, tha most rogue likes i did watch soo far... Well, is not a giant massive game, but the scope is really big than most single devs would try. I did it because i want, and i got inspired again by vampire survivals and nomad survivals, at least vampire survivals has a team, some devs and others folks in it... well.. maybe my project is even more complex than that... But i did a MVP Scope, i want to finish at least it. The entire game maybe with more time
The drunk dialogue’s not cringe, it’s based.
ugh, I went to a creative school for half a year and then I quit. If you are willing to learn you'll learn the things you need way faster if you just take your own route.
I'm sure a "proper" school education can be a plus when applying for a job in the industry, but for the route I wanted to take it was faster to just learn on my own. 👍
where did u learn coding to roquelike games type and how do u design ur charcters and animations?
Learned through trial and error, with GDevelop. It's a super easy engine to learn. 😅
And the art is from Kenney's creature mixer. 👍
@@HelperWesley I want to make games too, but I don't want to finish a 150 hour udemy course. And I don't know how to add animation for the game, I tried
@@bshshshsh9570 There's a video on FreeCodeCamp that shows you how to go from 0 to making an entire game with GDevelop in 45 minutes. And it's free.
"A job is a job" "It is not supposed to be fun" whaaat? Maybe bacause many people says it, so others assumed it to be right. People should pick a job that they enjoy as if the salary is just a bonus. Thomas Edison failed 10,000x before getting Light bulb working properly, he was so positive about it because he love what he do saying "I have not failed 10,000 times-I've successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.".
I am not mad or anyhting, I just feel like expressing my thoughts.
words like that they become meaningless after a while over and over again like don't go up to faster that become meaningless because at that point when we are grown up we get board that why I'll see what my kids like and help them as the best i can
Man gdvelop seems really good
But i dont know
the categories and names of the things to me are kinda of a mess i tried to a part of my construct2 game in gdevelop but i could not find any similar functions
Transitioning from 1 tool to another can definitely have a learning curve to it. Once you've gotten used to things working a particular way.
Hey Wesley I want to create a card game but I'm a beginner. Can you make a card game and show the process, so i can get a idea how to do it. Also i can't seem to find any tutorial on card games for gdevelop.
It's not just `possible`... it's possimpble!
Great stuff as always Wesley! Your hard work and skills outweigh luck all day 😃
Thanks! Combination of the two.😉
cheesy line isnt that cheesy man its just facts
I believe it, but it felt really cheesy while I was editing the video, and especially once I slapped that music on it. 😅
That parking garage @ 0:46 looks like Saudi parking garages.
Might have been, idk. 🤷♂️🤔
@@HelperWesley 😂
recognizing capitalism is sucking the life out of us isn't cringe, it's awareness of the problem.
5:09
how did you know 😅
Cause I was laughing about it as I was editing. 😅
I hate having nothing. Really good video though
With the best of intentions, frick you, I'm starting with my dream game and I have no coding experience.
Lol, I had heard the advice before I started my dream game and I did the exact same thing.
Some of us gotta learn the hard way. 🤣
Determination and more determination
Stock footage compilation
Pretty much. 😅
I usually use screen recordings of my work, but I was talking about stuff I did before I started recording my screen, so I used stock footage.
oh so thats why you sound so familiar (cause i watch the tutorial vids)
Yup, that's me. 😅
@@HelperWesley now...
11:52 wait what
I was the engineer. Nothing scandalous happened.😅
10:56 heh, variables
Gamedev humor. 😉
Yes sir
it was very interesting to learn the story)) there were so many things on your way until you stumbled upon godot
I love Godot, and it's among the engines I suggest for people to use, but GDevelop is the engine I chose in the end. 👍
@@HelperWesley , Oh, I'm sorry. I did not correctly specify the name of the engine. I'm just studying godot and gdevelop right now. and I messed up the words a little. I realized that you are working on gdevelop and it is a great tool. as well, now there are many free programs for game dev.
I like your gdevelop video
I cannot understand what you are saying 10:53
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Oh you can't afford creamer anymore 😨
Oh no. lol. I just stopped adding it in because it was making the ending too long.
RUclips analytics were telling me to stop doing it, that's all.😅
@@HelperWesley oh you can afford creamer 🥳
I think you should check out godot.
I've checked it out before, cool engine, but code.
My eyes go blurry, and my head goes "nope". 😅
@@HelperWesley You can go with visual script so no coding but blocks :P
@@kyubi7166 Didn't Godot just drop support for it's no-code system?
Yeah they did :/ but there will probably be a guy that makes an extension for this. You can still use older versions like 3.5. It is still very great for 2D :P
@@HelperWesley I consider myself to be pretty good at coding, I stay very focused while doing it and (sometimes) have a lot of fun doing it, my weak-point is art. I, for the life of me, cannot do pixel art, digital art, you name it. I'm typically great with creativity and ideas, but idk, I just can't get it right. Practice makes perfect though, so I suppose I'll keep trying.
luck... ohh nooo....
t. Reddit moment
Face cam please
Lol. I enjoy the anonymity.
And I have Tourettes, I like not having to worry about tics on camera. 👍
haha u tried to be marine man
Aquaman ftw.
U need create more videos and games and i need to talk to you bro for my idea how i can contact you?