Watch This Before You Make Your First Game!

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[thomasbrush]

Thanks for watching! Hope you learned a ton.

[CorianderGames]

I've been having all of this when I started indie game development, I released my first game on January and let me just tell you that it was not fun making it happen, but when people played it, reviewed it and enjoyed it, it just feels so good you know?, that's why I promised my self not to ever quit game development, it's so precious!

[guilhermemauriciodantas]

"you're gonna feel the love coming back from your project in the form ...
of money." lol

[mikhaelone]

today i had an interview in a local game making company, gonna hear from them on monday, wish me luck!

[joshuamcmillan]

Seriously was feeling down in the middle of a Jam... Perfect timing!

[AlfredoAVA]

This is SPOT ON. I've made simple games in Flash back in High School to some fanfare, but am working on a ginormous Action RPG right now as my first Unity project. For years I keep getting "Is it done yet? What's taking so long? You're tired? Just take a few days off working on it!" It can be hard growing up loving game development with nobody who can relate being in your circle. My game is taking forever but it's a passion project that I love to death, and will continue to love whether or not it winds up making money or getting good reviews. Awesome vid man, so happy I found your channel :)

[danielalejandrotapia]

I was surprised to see this in my YT feed since I'm not a software/game developer. but I'm blown away by the great advice and very happy that I clicked.

[nicolaspardosanchez]

I'm not a game developer, but I love how your advices not only help me in my daily issues, they also make me want to create a game

[althealligator]

God you scared me when you started crying at the start

[JoeJeremiah]

Love it Thomas. I’m in this exact position right now so I’m buckling up.

[MasterDavicous]

Thanks Thomas, I really needed to hear this. I thought a few of the things you mentioned we're exclusive to my situation, so I'm very relieved to hear that I'm not alone in experiencing them. Throughout college I've had the problem of constantly starting new projects and have recently overcome that. I have now been working "full-time" on my 3D platformer game for a few months now and I believe in my ability to make it a great game! Thanks so much for this video it really helped me! :)

[shonmacklin]

Started my game dev journey two months ago. I have been watching your videos for a few weeks and enjoy your content. I only watched casually without commitment but luckily; you keep popping up in my suggested playlist. But the January 1st scene where you burst into comedy tears had me laughing out loud . Thank You Thomas, I needed that. SUBSCRIBED

[gabriela_xy]

The last one made me wanna cry idk why. I felt hugged. Thank you 💛

[neil]

The friends/family not understanding thing is so relieving to hear it’s not just my friends/family. Thanks for making this video!!

[ferrucciobenito]

I recently managed to play pinstripe, beautiful artwork you did there. Can't wait for once upon a coma. Keep up the good work.

[KDvrk]

Thank you a lot, I was feeling extremely down today. I'm a Chilean senior Digital Animation Student but I'm gonna spend my life doing videogames. I often feel like a fake, like a failure. All my skills, Animation, 3D modeling, etc feel like they are not good enough. I'm doing a videogame demo as my Tittle Project, and even while I'm doing good atm, I often feel like I'm not gonna finish it on time, or that is not going to be good enough. While on college all my darknesses flourished, I fell on a hideous depression, Anxiety x100, I developed some rage state when I'm too stressed. I've never had dissociated or wanted to die that much in my life. I fear the future like never before. But then I see small indie developers making great success with their games and that gives me hope, a little glimpse of light which tells me to keep going, to don't quit and love myself and the games I'm going to make. You gave me hope today again so thank you. Someone has to make good games isn't it? I can not kill myself until I do it.


Sorry for unloading everything here but it gave me confidence venting my fears. Thanks ♥

[electra]

I don't know if you'll see this since the video is so old, but I never really played a lot of games when I was a teenager due to not really owning many consoles, so your game Coma (the original web browser one on Newgrounds) was actually one of the first games I played through. It's still one of my favorite little pieces of media ever, the art direction was so wonderful and it's really nostalgic for me. Just wanted to let you know I'm really glad you made that game! :)

[DonGeritch]

last point is so damn relateble, and worst part is that when I was told I was being lazy or unorganised, I believed them and it screwed me pretty bad

[Gnurklesquimp]

It's pretty cool how I used to feel completely lost making music, and now that I'm comfortable enough to just enter a state of flow with that, it's like therapy when overwhelmed by game development. I'm thinking of making the theme of my game about learning to turn a tough struggle into an interesting learning experience, with extrinsic rewards but a focus on making it intrinsically satisfying. Seems like I may learn a thing or two in order to strengthen this exact theme simply by making a game at all, they're also emotions very easy to directly tap into through playing games, such a cool medium.

[Sandstrom]

I just wanted to say thanks for making this video - your advice legitimately helped me to pick up my project again after a few weeks off, all your points are spot on, and i hope other solo devs can see this and know - its ok to feel bad, good, anxious about your project - just stick with it and see how it goes! Thanks dude