3 Mistakes I Made Hiring a Game Developer on Fiverr

I've made quite a lot of mistakes while trying to get my mobile game 'Ortie' developed. Those mistakes lead to me losing time and money. I thought it would be useful for others trying to go down the same route as me to have this knowledge BEFORE they start parting way with their money.

Feel free to check my game out here:

[Bargeral]

I noticed in your screenshot of the revised specification that you had a section for objects with Speed, Size and Invincibility. I'd recommend that for these types of attributes you have the programmer expose them in some fashion for you to tweak later. You don't want to waste his time on game-play balancing, which he may or may not be skilled at, and you don't want to have to dive into the code to adjust these things later. When your testing players come back say something like, 'this enemy is a bit hard, but would be fine if it was a tad slower' it's going to be a lot easier to change a value in an INI file that in the code itself. (Also maybe a bit more granular that 1 of 5, you can always limit it later.)

[amdenoAx]

This video really helped me realize how difficult game dev really is. Thanks a lot (:

[Kelzanogaming]

Hey thanks man just subscribed, i am currently searching on how to do this correctly. game developing seems difficult. Rather learn from others mistakes. Cheers.

[Zallusions]

You got alot of work for the money you spent, revisions really arnt to fully change the project, like you said, you should have been more clear up front with the dev.

[weirdbuggames]

i have been working on fiverr for over 3 years now, and most people who reached out to me have only an idea for a game that they want and i end up designing the entire game myself, i would've charged them for the game design process bc it took 50% of the dev time maybe more than it would take me to actually code the entire thing lol

[szenosdev]

I am a unity game dev for 4 years. I don't know what were your expectations, but seeing the footage I think this game is doable in a few hours. So yes, maybe he was an amateur😢

[NoahtheGameplayer]

By the way, there was this Minecraft server that was shut down and I wanted it to be recreated, but of course I can't afford it since its cost. $2, 678, so that's why I had to GoFundMe page to have it hosted so that people can help support the project so I can manage to afford it to order to make an actual replica of the game that was deleted long time ago,

I guess what you can say is the more expensive the more better it gets, and I'm not overly mad about it, just going to have to be patient when it comes to advertising it and waiting out until I reach a certain amount of money to afford this project to happen

[techbatman]

to be honest i think the link to your game is incomplete?

[gigabytegallery]

I've wanted to take a gamble at getting someone to create a battle royale for me on Fiverr, would it seem rude of me to ask a developer to show me a sample video of what their work may look like? Many of the developers I have sorted through don't seem to have very much details or videos demonstrating what their work will possibly result as for the price they have their premiums at.

[BonusPokus]

He lost more than you did, you got a good deal