How This Indie Dev Drastically Altered His Career

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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @Aarimous
    @Aarimous Місяць тому +34

    Thanks for having me on your podcast. I appreciate the friendship we've fostered over the past few years. Being able to chat with a fellow solo game dev has been invaluable to me personally and professionally. Here’s to the next few years of game dev, mistakes, lessons learned, and of course a healthy amount of scope creep. Cheers!

    • @erikdozsa
      @erikdozsa Місяць тому +1

      I'm another SFDC guy who turned to game development! All the best & keep going!

  • @Nobody6146
    @Nobody6146 Місяць тому +11

    Great interviews Thomas! You do so much right that I feel Thomas Brush gets wrong with his. You have a completely blank slate (no checklist) to let your guest say whatever they want and as long as they like uninterrupted. You don’t self promote or spend much time discussing your own opinions, because that’s what your other content is for. Congrats on your channel growth!

  • @HakanBacon
    @HakanBacon Місяць тому +3

    I've been following you two for quite some time and I gotta say two things:
    First, thanks for motivating me
    and second, I am kinda proud of seeing you two growing and growing in what you guys do. That is also quite motivating

  • @GoldenCharacterDesign
    @GoldenCharacterDesign Місяць тому +1

    Nice talk guys, thanks. Just took the leap into full-time game dev myself.

  • @MikeTenDev
    @MikeTenDev Місяць тому +2

    "If you're unhappy, think about why you're unhappy and make changes to it". This really resonates with me, as I've been stressed about my job for the past five years, stuck in the same routine day in and day out without making any changes.

  • @TezFraser
    @TezFraser Місяць тому

    Dude you are pumping out the long form content! Kudos to you I can barely manage a short or two a week 😅. Congrats and keep it up!

  • @dobrx6199
    @dobrx6199 Місяць тому

    Great interview!

  • @OldRod99
    @OldRod99 Місяць тому

    Great interview!

  • @nancedevdiaries
    @nancedevdiaries Місяць тому

    This was very inspiring! Blurry cat is cute too :D. Great style of interviewing and great discussion. I can relate a lot! "engagement" haha

  • @JoeTheis
    @JoeTheis Місяць тому

    The timing of this episode is uncanny. I'm in a very similar position to Aarimous right now, calculating my burn rate and deciding when or if I should pivot to full-time. Similar work situations too. Definitely giving me a lot to think about

  • @Reyjakai
    @Reyjakai Місяць тому

    Ayy, them's're mah bois.

  • @Metiskt
    @Metiskt Місяць тому +3

    engagement

  • @JoeTheis
    @JoeTheis Місяць тому

    How do you get your camera synced with your mic audio? I'm tired of looking like crap on a mediocre webcam

  • @sahebsidhu5544
    @sahebsidhu5544 Місяць тому

    You should have a notepad and write down your thoughts and questions as you are talking to the guests

  • @Doctor-ts4le
    @Doctor-ts4le Місяць тому

    I have a question !!! how on God's earth most of the successful indie developers are from US ?! is there a steam algorithm that Favours US developers?!

    • @Yakuzion-lw6tt
      @Yakuzion-lw6tt Місяць тому

      Suffering and student loans

    • @Doctor-ts4le
      @Doctor-ts4le Місяць тому

      ​@@Yakuzion-lw6tt Yeah ?! and the rest of the world probably not suffering! and just sitting on their lazy ass!!! like your economy that has about 40 trillion debts! but u are keep surviving !! why ?! because u stealing from the rest of world by exporting your national debt through US dollars!!!

    • @D.KRyley-mq1do
      @D.KRyley-mq1do Місяць тому

      Probably not, there's a few reasons I can think of why indies are mainly in the US.

    • @Doctor-ts4le
      @Doctor-ts4le Місяць тому

      @@D.KRyley-mq1do I can guess what you're trying to say! You're probably thinking that since the US realized the potential of the gaming industry a decade or two earlier than its competitors, it makes sense for them to be ahead now. That's true for triple-A and double-A games, but not for us indie developers. We're just one person or a small team of five anywhere in the world, with roughly equal access to resources and training. From my perspective, it seems like Steam has an algorithm that favors US indie developers