Game business can be daunting (correct upload!)

Besides the actual game development stuff, the business side of things can occupy your head with a lot of decision making and problem solving!

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I'm Pascal a Dutch independent game developer since 2004 known as Orangepixel. I created various games including Residual, the Gunslugs series, Heroes of Loot series, Space Grunts series, Stardash and the Meganoid series released on PC, mobile and various consoles.

[SPG-Games]

Thank you so much for making this video! I love your videos mate. My favourite ones are actually ones like this where you talk about behind the scenes stuff to do with business, publishers, general game dev tips for other game devs. I've just done my first commercial game and I'm trying to make my own way, so stuff like this I find super interesting and helpful! It was actually one of my favourite videos from you in a while so I hope you keep doing business / similar type videos. Thanks so much! I'm always getting little nuggets for my own game dev from your videos, you're a champ!

[overwritedigitalservices]

Solid video, thanks for sharing! It’s all too easy to talk about a projects successes and to avoid discussing rejections.

[marte]

I respect your openess about all this and the joke "never feel alone" :D

[collinvisser]

I am never alone - The voice in my head - in my head.... zombie zombie

[plasticcowgames]

Great insight. Good luck with the launch!

[tomwillaert]

Appreciate the honesty in this video (and others). Great insight on how the business actually works and what your thought process is behind it.

[theisaackielofproject]

I followed you after a similar video in the past. It's always great to hear about the background stuff like this.. honestly there should be more Videos like this

[Tbjbu]

thanks for sharing!! business talks are good!

[GamerWolvenna]

Reusing the code in other projects sounds like a good way to make the most out the time you've spent developing this game.

[MiniatureGiantsGameDev]

interesting enough to subscribe! nice work.

[FrozenWell]

interesting video, thanks for your insights

[iainkey]

Very interesting, great to hear about how are considering your different options for Reg city! Hope you can wrap it up on budget

I hadn’t heard about the new Atari console, I presume that’s the VCS
Hope you can get residual on there without too much effort

Hope you feel better soon

[charleslamb]

Quick tip, EU has some game funds, that give money to projects, in Europe, can't remember names, I think if something looks nice, one can get 10.000 - 20.000 euros . .

[charleslamb]

I really like the new SteamDeck, it's sort-of more for older people, in sense, Nintendo is very for kids . .

However, SteamDeck might be new, and, not have many people also playing . . .

[johnanthony]

For KickStarter, instead of giving people of steam key of your game, can you just gift the game to them? Can you do bulk gifting in Steam? Can you still review the game if it was gifted to you? So many questions!

[Jtsynyster]

Released some games on Steam and I'm actually making a living out of it, decide to port some of my games to Android and the numbers there were super low. How do you get noticed on these platforms?

[alskidan]

Are you going to use MonoGame for iOS port?

[kigamezero]

I think your thumbnail is supposed to say
"Game business is more **than** making games"