A Day in the Life of an Indie Video Game Dev

A regular day in my life as an indie video game developer

About me -
Hi I'm TJ, an indie developer primarily developing games in the Unity Engine. I left a career in software to focus on my passion of game dev and am enjoying every moment of it.

Software Used -
Unity Version: 2021.1.22f1

PC Specs -
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
64GB RAM
Way too much caffeine

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[kingbling]

Born to be a gym influencer, forced to be a game dev

[bucephalusstudios]

Glad to see that you make exercise an important, scheduled part of your day, TJ! I get the feeling that so many devs just slave away and burnout over their keyboards all day.

[danielmattox]

I appreciate the in depth explanation you gave on the exercises and why you chose them, great vid!

[bananadev]

Super cool video, I love the videography at the start :)

[nnichael]

taking notes:
1. walk to gym
2. walk in gym
3. walk out of gym
4. die on the walk back home

[WallDigital_]

Honestly, would love to see more of these vlog style game dev/gym videos !

[ObsessiveGames]

Can just imagine. Set up camera, walk away, walk back to fetch camera, and you even walked far away. (steps reached? 100%) 😅 Then someone taking camera, then TJ fighting the bad guys for his content. Respect

[dobrx]

3:30 Ey that's me, 38th place lol

[luckyboynu]

good video, starts off immediately, no long intro, easy to follow, good stuff.

[SecretZoneGames]

Clicked for game dev content - stayed for gym content

[spencerdunn]

Bruh the fact that YOU'RE game only has 17 reviews depresses me about my own progress 😮‍💨

[CartV]

there was like 6 mins of programming followed by working out for the, need to workout inorder to get work done lol:D noticed the setting goal thing in the am tried it for work it really helped thanks bro.

[AlmightyStudios]

I thought I was the only game dev that goes to the gym😂
This is really motivating! Most based gamedev!

[anthonyjones]

I feel like a lot of bug fixing is logic puzzles and problem solving, moreso than making a system in the first place.

Does that make squashing bugs more satisfying? And do you have a strong preference between making something new or fixing something extant?

[dobrx]

Also, how did you make that custom script that uploads your builds to steam? I want to make a similar thing but for Unreal Engine

[Don-zots]

Make a fitness channel 😊
Great fitness advice 😮

[Cussmem]

Maybe I missed it but, how do you make the ends meet?

[OliverBeebe]

hey that steam uploader tool looks sweet, i couldn't find it in the description, would appreciate if you could link to it. awesome video!

[RichardinSA]

Maybe you already told the story and I missed it... but how are you full time? Did your game sell? Do you have lots of savings? Was curious because I myself am trying to figure out ways to go full time.

[LL-nvvx]

hey man, did you drop the tavern game or are you still working on it?