How I Actually Make Money from Indie Games

How to Actually Make Money from Your Indie Game

So you want to actually make money from your indie games? Here are a couple tips that really helped me sell mine. I went from $0 to over a $1500 per month with these tips and I hope you find them helpful.

┈ Chapters ┈
0:00 Introduction
0:34 How I sold games
0:54 Making a Good Game
1:07 Find a Niche
1:49 Squarespace
2:40 Where to Publish?
2:53 Steam for Sure
3:25 Is Itch easy?
4:00 What about Consoles?
4:18 Mobile any good?
4:29 How to Spread the Word!
5:09 Do a Kickstarter
5:29 Conventions/Online Events
5:54 Telling Your Story
6:38 BE KIND
7:00 Final Thoughts
7:25 Shout Outs

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[Goodgis]

Like & Subscribe if you'd like a more in-depth video on how to market your game.

[TheShelfman]

Love how you've been pumping out these videos! Great tips. There's a lot that needs to happen behind the scenes for someone to gain traction (I'm with you, I've been trying to get there for about a decade and slowly started understanding it better this year) but most important of all: create something good and fun! Great video Goodgis😁

[KamranWali]

Awesome video! Really like the tips here. Keep it up! :)

[HybridLizard_com]

Not anything particularly new or unexpected for me personally in this video, but it is a nice and well edited compilation of important things to keep in mind, especially for people starting a gamedev journey to be aware of. Keep up the good work!

[-zo]

No, I don't us Unity! But I still think it's a good engine. :D

[RighBread]

Omg Goodgis you are too sweet :) <3

[plebisMaximus]

If you go into indie development for profit, you're doing it wrong. For every Scott Cawthorn there's 10000 developers who didn't make a dime. You have to make games you want to make because you like making them. With passion comes quality and with quality, you should start getting sales eventually.

[YourFavoriteEnemy]

I loved how you were talking about the importance of relationships in our lives in that team work tiny game and inmediatly after you were hacking your companion's head with your axe while saying "relationships are most of the important things we get in this life".

[jameswilson]

Hey, Goodgis. I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you've done and I hope there's more great content in the future. I've watched all of your videos, played all of the games you've uploaded to Itch and I am very excited for Dewdrop Dynasty this December. Keep up the Goodgis Work and thank you so much!

[NamidaSai]

Great tips! Especially the one about being kind online: i feel like too many forget about that. 🤔 how hard is it to remember that we’re all humans just trying to get by here?!
Great work, keep it up and thanks for the upload! 👌

[ToaderTheToad]

Also I'd like to point out: The Linux community is very supportive and helpful from what I've heard, and you'll become a hit in the Linux community if you make a good native Linux port.
Also, shoutouts to the Dreamcast community, because they also really like when people port their game to the Dreamcast.

[MercurySteel]

"I am no Toby Fox" is something that Toby Fox would say.

[Slacker]

So I'm brand new to Godot and watching you're videos make me excited to start my journey, I started with unity but I think I am wanting to switch to Godot because I am wanting to learn python and GDscrpit. I feel like both will be beneficial to know for doing other projects beside games. But also I think my issue with unity is that there is tutorials for everything so I go and watch a tut. and dont really grasp everything that I watch. So I am hoping that with Godot it will push me further to try and figure it out myself and be able to retain the information. Thank you for the great content.

[Hamox]

This video is awesome and helpful, thanks for your honesty!

[rawkth]

Money certainly is a motivator as game development is my dream job which I have been trying to and just started on the path of it. My main motivation is to make games I'd enjoy playing because most games just don't satisfy me at all now.

[DevNugget]

Salesman-gis back at it! This going to help a lot, even more its from one of my favorite youtubers!



(My first comment got deleted for some reason, idk if it was just YouTube being weird so I just reposted it)

[GamesBySaul]

Great video Goodgis! Found it very useful, marketing your game can be pain to do, so it's definitely useful to have developers talking about their experiences with it

[glitchhub-gamedevelopmentt]

Thank you so much for this great explanation :)
I'm glad that YouTube recommended this video after the failure of publishing my first game on Itch, haha

[jayfolk]

money is the difference between hobbiest and pro: pro just means you make money, keep trying and try to put your work out there.

[scarfyoid]

Great video ! By curiosity, what is the random generator used at 1:42 ?