A Day in the Life of a Game Developer with a Full Time Job

In this video I walk you through a day in my life as an indie game developer who also manages the responsibilities of having a full time job as a software engineer. I show how I make time for everything, including spending time with loved ones, playing sports, and having some time to just chill.

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Hope this video inspires other busy folks like myself to make time for the things they’re passionate about!

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MY PC / DESK SETUP!

Monitor - Alienware 34" Ultrawide 3440x1440 @ 120hz GSYNC

Keyboard - MASSDROP CTRL

Mouse - Logitech G502

Microphone - Blue Yeti

Webcam - Razer Kiyo

Custom Built PC

CASE - Corsair AIR 540 ATX Mid Tower

CPU - i7 9700K

FAN - Noctua NH-D15

MOBO - Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Ultra

GPU - Gigabyte RTX 2080

RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 @3200

STORAGE - Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M.2

PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3

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Music Credit:

► Music Credit: Artificial.Music
Track Name: "And So It Begins"
License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

► Music Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: "I Found Me"
License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported "Share Alike" (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.

[DevDuck]

Hey there! Wanted to address a comment I've been seeing recently related to my sleep schedule. Don't worry, I do NOT sleep from midnight to 5am every day. I only have volleyball one night a week, and I sleep in the morning after if it's a late game. I'm almost always in bed asleep by 10pm or earlier every day, giving me at least 7 hours of sleep. Getting this much sleep is VERY important to me, both for my physical and mental well being. I definitely don't advocate trying to make 5 hours / night work - give your body the rest it needs to recover!


Thanks for watching!

[ryanvb]

What do you do for a living?
I code.
What do you in your spare time.
I code...

[canitbeapplied]

I find your healthy lifestyle extremely impressive. I mean stretches in the morning, consistant breakfasts, cooked dinners, and volleyball all in one day. Well done man

[Danidev]

Aye nice video my guy! The vegetables being cut to the music was hella satisfying :D

[gamesmaker]

1:28 raise your monitor until the top bezel is at your eye level, otherwise your stretches at 5am become useless.
The rest of the setup looks ergonomic, good job on that.

[jordanhudson]

Takes a lot of discipline to keep a healthy lifestyle in this industry. Keep it up!

[AuliyaasGames]

I live for the wholesome lives of game devs who cook and enjoy nature!!
Also both of your desk setups look sooo nice!

[DragonSniperThree]

The man works full time job, develops games, exercises, cooks, and drives a manual. Respect. Wish I was capable of all that

[pranesshj]

This man is
Smart
successful in his job and life
healthy
can cook
good husband
and has a Youtube channel

[TheElvinGamer]

Thanks for inspiring me to kick myself into gear.

[Jet]

you included everything in the description except that milkshake recipe xD

[prathamgoyal]

You: I wake up at 5:15
Me: I wanna wake at 5:15 *checks time


5:12* Nice.

[susduck]

I went to college for computer programming, learned C#, Java, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript. My final project in college ended up being a first person shooter, sort of like Nazi zombies in unity.

After college, I realized there wasn't much of anything to apply for anywhere near my area so I was basically forced to get my CDL and drive a truck if I wanted to survive financially... Now 3 years later I'm starting to get the itch to get back into programming and try to make a fully featured game. Decided on unreal, although I'm finding it tough to balance my time. With working 80-110 hours/week at my main job, balancing a wife/kid it's not easy but I'm determined to get it done so I can get out of this field I hate. It's practically sucking my life away with how much I have to work! Thanks for the inspiration man, I'm just going to keep fighting to get there.

[kaustubh]

The best part of this video was that you drive a manual! 💯

[games_withjames]

Hey man, I’ve just started building a game with some pals and my sis and this is probably one of the most inspirational things I could have watched right now. Thank you!

[NorthGameStudio]

Nice job. Thanks for showing a bit of your routine. It’s definitely inspiring. I too work a full time IT job and also am a part time university professor and have 3 kids under 4 years old. This makes it a bit tough to do game development during free time as I have no free time, but yeah the struggle is real lol

[TheBcoolGuy]

I like this. I am usually really productive and good too, but I've been bad with my sleeping lately and that messes it all up.

[dreond]

Great video! Thank you so much for taking the time to make and share this

[IlseMulAuthor]

I don't know if this is still your routine three years later, but I have to say it seems like a very good routine.
Your time to get up and start your game dev is for me the time I almost have to leave for work (I work from 6AM till noon).
I'm still trying to find a balance between my physical job (as in physical work), game dev, writing my books (and other things that have to do with world building 😁) and relaxation 😁😁
But I'll get there.

It's interesting to see how other indie developers do this! Thanks for sharing your experiences 😀😀

[tgmrks]

I'm glad the video came to my feeds. This is very expiring. It made me realise that I need to put more discipline in my projects