Channel update. Changes are coming..
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
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As many of you know, over two years ago, I quit my job and sold my house to start this Indie dev studio with my wife. Like many of you, our dream was to make games full-time.
But we knew we needed to grow an audience, and we also knew we needed to start finding new ways to pay the bills before our savings ran out. So we started this UA-cam Channel!
But now, time management has become a problem with 2 videos being published every week. So some changes are coming...
I want to thank each and every one of you for continuing to show up and watch our comment. You all mean SO much to me!
If you're new to our channel, we're Brandon & Nikki from Sasquatch B Studios. We sold our house to start our game studio, and work full time on building our business and making our game Samurado.
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just remember ~ dont give up~
Happy for you guys! Two videos a week is ~wild~ and it's Herculean that you've kept it up this long and made any progress at all on a game!
You HELPED many ppl so far including me! 👍 We're are thankful for Your content, and we still will be even if it will be only one video per week!❤ Keep up the good work!
This is the best decision. UA-cam doesn't reward a schedule as much as quality videos anyway.
100% the right call - The objective has to be the priority!
Your content is great and I've learned a bunch - and I plan to keep learning - but I'm excited to see what happens when you throw your focus at the process!
Go get 'em!
Two videos a week is an insane pace -- amazing job maintaining that for so long! Best of luck with the new balance and enjoy that additional dev time!
One vid a week is still great!🔥
Awesome news man I'm happy for you!
I think It's a great desition, I think 2 videos a week is also pretty demanding and actually I'm glad you cut off time of youtube to have a better dev roadmap. I'm super excited to see Samurado available at the steam store, literally buying it day 0. And I wish you both luck on the dev journey ahead!
The goal is the goal and everything else has to support that and not the other way around. Good job building up your channel. I'm glad you're realigning your workload to support your goal!
Congratulations on the success thus far! I think the decision to dial back and leave more time for development is the right choice. One video a week as worked well for us too.
Found you in late 2022 when started giving making games another shot. Currently have to focus on finishing my bachelor's but it's been good watching the non-tutorial videos. Keep it up!
Keep up the good work man, we love your content and support you. Don't get burnt out from having too much on your schedule.
Thanks for all the work you've done.
You've helped push my gamedev journey along more than I'd like to admin, and for that I am forever thankful.
I have a game to do, so I can understand your eagerness. Take you time and pace. Good luck.
One video a week is still impressive 😉 Looking forward watching them!
Looks like your community supports your decision. And I think spending more time building your game will result in even higher quality content in your weekly video.
I think many viewers saw this comming. But I it's also a sign of quality because yout take it seriously. UA-cam is a full time job as much as game dev is. You had to do compromises at some point. I saw it in my gamedev Video last week, I only have my free time to do both, the video I made is crap and my game didn't make any progress neither.
At the end of the day, are you a game developer, or a content creator? It's really hard to be both.
That said, I think you offer a unique perspective on game development that I really appreciate.
My favorite videos you both put out are the videos that explain how you built something for your games specifically.
"How to do [X]" type videos are nice, but it's better when I can see why someone would want to do it and how it fits into a larger project.
Either way, keep up the good work, and do what you love!
About time... :) Like your videos. Would like your game, more.
Keep up the awesome work.
Damn...I loved your t-shirt man!
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Think about the classic passionate dev teams from the '90s and '00s. Valve, Bungie, id... They hardly spent any time on marketing. They were doing all they could to keep their rate of development as high as possible to get the game out. It's very sensible to keep the YT work and such to a minimum. You're going all-in with the game dev enterprise, but you're technically working half-time, sometimes less, on the actual game.
What happened to your metroidvania game
Never commented here but have listened to your podcast loads. You guys are great ❤️🎉
I'm also working on a sort of Ninja ish 2d side scroller. Will share it with you.at some point 😁
You’re an inspiration dude and remember, we’re not going anywhere, 1 a week is plenty. Focus on what is most important!
best of luck !
honestly its impressive that you haven't burned out after 2.5 years. Im a little burned out after 1 year even without a youtube channel and doing gamedev fulltime (still struggling to get a demo out for oct nextfest lol)
best of luck with samurado, its come a long way
Do what needs to be done. We will be here.
How much time do you think you'll get back for working on your game by going down to 1 video? This has been the #1 reason I have avoided thinking about making a public dev log or channel because I feel that it would jeopardize me working on the game itself.
Yea what happened to Veil of Maya?
Great change! Not being able to touch you game in a week due to other obligations is nuts - you might as well have a full time job doing something completely different.
I say only release one every 2 weeks, do what you think you need to do❤
I suppor your decision guys!
"JUST" make sense =)
Interesting. I had honestly thought that your game dev was going to be shelved in favor of just making videos about game dev. Not being rude, it just seemed like YT was more profitable for you.
Glad to see you’re making game dev more of a priority. Having launched a game, you will definitely need to keep up the income from content creation for a while longer until you release a few games. Make ‘em small, make ‘em quality and keep growing! 🎉
I understand
Good move! Honestly, being a FT indie small-team dev and just having a day week for the game seems inefficient to me.
Your ua-cam.com/video/YXuiRewlKO0/v-deo.html video is the reason I am able to work on my gamedev and my channel stuff everyday, I just felt the same way with my content. Its no stress, the game is the reason we show up. Thank you for doing what you do!
Understood. Fully support your way forward. Be careful not to put twice as much effort into your weekly video or you will be back where you started! As we all want you to succeed, why not try 2 videos per month? No one would complain!
Glad to see that you are doing more gme dev and a little less YT. Need to get that game out the door. Will you still do interviews? Would like to see interviews from Adam (git-amend) and Marnix (bite me games).
This guy has great ideas. -M
Please work on the game and also take time to rest. Can't wait to play it
Totally, youtube is a lot of work and if you end up doing it so much that you don't even do gamedev anymore... on a gamedev channel. It's a problem.
I have been critical in the past, but I don honestly wish you luck and I hope you can get your game out there. I have done a little bit of video creation, but no where near as much as you. So I can definitely understand that most of your time must go towards creating videos and content to keep things moving. I want to see you finish a game. It felt a little disingenuous to start watching your content and seeing you were working on one game, that I assume will now never be released, but then switch to another game. It seems like you have some scope creep, and I would guess that has just gotten worse with the UA-cam commitment. I genuinely hope that this helps you get your game done and released. I would love to see you guys even push for a demo that you can put on Itch or Steam for people to play. I think that will help you get closer to actually releasing a game.
Best of luck, and I am sure the content will still be as good as usual. I don't think you really need to have 2 videos a week anyway, you just need to stay consistent. I hope that with this change, things are able to progress along much faster for you. Small release games will lead you to bigger released games. Thanks for the content you have released, and keep up the good work.
Quality over quantity 💪
Ur using video editing as a distraction from doing the hard game development. Prbly because ur burnt out or u need a break.
U should be outsourcing ur video editing. That way u can still make videos and work on samurato
Except video editing is crazy expensive, I looked into it for our channel as well, but even some cheap editor in Pakistan charges $100/video. Yet these videos generally earn about $25 each, so there's just too much of a difference to justify outsourcing it.
Also, IIRC he kind of outsources his editing, as his wife Nicky helps with the editing. -M
is there any point in running YT channel where your main audience is game devs who will not buy your game unless you're selling courses?
So, as a gamedev UA-camr I think I am qualified to answer this. No gamedev starts UA-cam aiming to sell a course. UA-cam is more a way to get an income stream at this point to sustain development, instead of a marketting approach. Sure you'll get some wishlists along the way, but these generally convert much worse, and are often not a good ROI (it often takes over a year to reach 1k subs).
AdSense on its own is garbage (around $2/1000 views), so that's when UA-cam Gamedevs are forced to start either a Patreon, Kickstarter or some other way of funding. UA-cam sponsors can be a big income as well, but these are harder to get since gamedevs generally don't have that much spending power compared to tech/finance UA-cam for example.
This pushes you (the creator) inevitably into selling courses, because this is simply the highest earning way of monetization for most (with courses going for $99-$997), but it requires you to abandon a large part of your audience.
At the end of the day, UA-cam gamedev takes a lot of dedication to build up to something sustainable, and it's not just a way to make a quick buck (either through selling your game, or courses).
I started doing UA-cam, not because of it being our main marketing channel, but just because I always wanted to share my thoughts with the world. That's what allowed me to keep going for over 15 months before we started picking up any measurable views. -M
Honestly, considering how many times you've talked about how much time you spend on these videos, this change does not surprise me. Focus on your health, you life, your game and make sure your UA-cam channel isn't overpowering the more important things.
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I wish you replied to comments. This feels kind of robotic. Like you're using us for views or something.
I get you, it can feel like screaming into the void when the creator does no interaction. But reading comments can also be extremely demotivating for us. Most comments are positive, but reading just a single comment where someone says they're rooting for you to fail can kill an entire day's focus.
Our squishy human brains haven't evolved yet to be able to deal with hundreds of (near) anonymous comments coming in every day. If you are working on a tight deadline, with limited financial runway, losing a day of focus because some guy with an anime picture as his profile pic, simply isn't worth it.
I try to read every single comment I get, because they contain some valuable criticism as well, but it took me a long time to learn how to detach my emotions from reading comments. -M