BRILLIANT Advice If You Want To Start Making Indie Games
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- I chat with the creator of the Sword and Sandals creator about his advice for those of you wanting to make games full time. The full podcast drops Friday!
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► Wishlist Lairs of Leviathan: store.steampow...
► Wishlist Twisted Tower: store.steampow...
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The full podcast drops Friday! ► Learn how to make indie games as a job (free): www.fulltimegamedev.com/opt-in-how-to-make-six-figures
► Wishlist Lairs of Leviathan: store.steampowered.com/app/2752020/Lair_Of_The_Leviathan/
I was already looking for it lol, I heard sword and sandals and i needed to hear the rest
LEARN from the negative reviews. Don't completely ignore them. But don't let it stop you. Just let it give you insight on where you might do better. 😊
This might be the single best piece of advice for game dev (or even life as a whole) seems so obvious but so hard to truly follow... such a good point
Oliver Joyce in the house! Can't wait for the full pod, it'll be a banger!!
The twisted tower demo is next week yay. been waiting 2 years Thomas.
Wonderful to be part of this podcast, Thomas - thanks for the opportunity! It always feels strange offering gems of wisdom to people when you know that you've messed up so many times, but as they say, we learn as much from our failures as our victories. In our long chat I feel like we just scratched the surface of game dev and all its intricacies, but it was a real blast. Cheers! Oli
No way, I’m already doing this, right now I creating a cutscene/dialogue system that I am designing to be adaptable to any future game I make.
I remember over a decade ago playing Sword and Sandals during computer class 😂 Man that game was fun
Swords and sandals is an awesome game I loved playing flash version of it as a kid
Yeah same
I happened to make friends with an art director from a pretty big studio most if not all gamers have heard of and he told me something. “If you’re in your comfort zone, you’re not growing” all feedback is valid feedback! In every aspect of game dev work.
We cannot wait for Twisted Tower, I respect the journey!
Loving the pivot to focusing on the podcast in 2025. The content is great. Thanks Thomas, keep it up.
I just start game solo development as a hobby now and I love it also love your videos . love from Pakistan : )
Hey didn't you make pinstripe? I just picked it up for 90 percent off so, heck yeah! Awesome deal.
thanks for sharing this! great advice
1:28 Did Oliver just say... RPGMaker??? The entire RM community’s ears perk up simultaneously (but seriously you probably could’ve made a prototype in MV or MZ (heck maybe even VX Ace!) still awesome though, just sayin!
What's the story with Swords and Sandals being a reskin and not owning the IP?
That RPG maker might do better than the game. Discord was originally a small internal tool used by a game company.
is there a way to seek through the free course video? it's giving stats for 2023 so I want to glean through the video and go back to parts I missed
What would you say about marketing your product mainly through trailers (cinematic type of trailers). I like the idea of that, and it’s also really efficient I guess (re-used assets etc.). Is it feasible, reaching out to big youTube channels that are oriented towards that? (3D sekiro-like, so definetly potential for movie like trailers)
W video as always 🤝
Where is the full podcast? 👀
Says friday in the pinned comment
@TomLiKESLemons oooh I see it, he posted it after my comment, I beat him to it 😎
Isn't it "swordS and sandals"?? Why is everyone spelling it wrong
you can make a game in the Neverwinter Nights Toolset just look at Counter Strike its just a half life mod.
Thanks alot! Just started my own indie game business, it sold one game the first year, but im super happy, the person got super interested and later hired me in his webdev programming ad as actor. Gonna continue and make a bit bigger games. I'd definitely suit into "indie" category, no interest in big 3d graphics or drawing that much, i would hate to do that. Only using Game Maker Studio commercial licence version so far, the other engines are a bit big, learned about Defold engine, but it is still a little bit big for my needs. I should draw more but I hate to be drawing a lot... luckily my kids draw funny characters and graphics for some of my games...
Webinar? Let me guess you're selling a course too that I bet you don't see the price for until after the webinar or some nonsense. Smells like a scammy channel.
4:20 what he said about pizza tower is just fucking wrong. good addictive movement and gameplay would work no matter what, maybe it wouldnt have sold quite as well but it still would have found an audience. this seems like a boomer game dev just saying "oh people like that cause of its 'quirky' (which fucking god i hate him describing it like that) artstyle when he clearly hasnt played the fucking game and is just talking out of his ass. think before you speak goddamnit
Facts. Observe freedom planet. terrible cutscenes and cringe (in my opinion) characters. Yet people love the game regardless cause it just plays good.
@@TheONLYFeli0 good game is good game regardless of asthetic
Ok, impressive RPG maker thing, but where's the actual advice?