/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I have a day job as an IT guy. I often fall asleep in front of my computer in the evenings.

Progress is really slow but I'm in no rush since I'm waiting for the market correction to finally cull all the shitty indie devs (my competition) before I debut my game.

If you really need to earn money right away, start a Patreon and get making hentai.

Specifically furry hentai. You'll earn more than a dayjob in no time.

>>20234

> I'm waiting for the market correction to finally cull all the shitty indie devs

I don't think there will ever be a moment when that will happen, it will rather be even more full of shit indie games instead in the future.

I would honestly draw furry if I was good at drawing.

>>20240

If you drew the attached image, I think your art skills are perfectly fine. It's a trap to always want your art to be better. Because as your skill grows, your ability to discern grows as well. So you start chasing a mythical level of quality. It's great if you want to be a great artist, but terrible if you want to make games.

In other words, if there was a cool game that had art of that level, I would be definitely interested.

>>20245

That's true. Good concept art can drive Kickstarters.

While good fully playable skeletal frameworks get cobwebs.

I have no life, I just work then go home and browse chans, play vidya, watch anime and develop my game. If you don't spend money in stuff like going out in the weekends and stuff you can manage to make enough to pay for your shitty game development.

My situation is a bit tougher than the lot of you. I'm still in school, >inb4 underage b& and I'm about to start what would be the equivalent of the last year of high school in Burgerland, in September. The following year after that is university time, and my parents are having a hard time saving up money. They just don't have enough, and they're asking me to go get a job. I haven't even bothered to try to get one, since I knew that I'd get fucked in the ass regarding wage and working hours. I live in an area in which tourism is king when it comes to the local economy, and people mostly work in summer. It's intense. Me and my parents know we need that money. So, I decided I would go mad as hell in developing my game, hoping that I would get something decent done and try to jew some money through donations or whatever. If that plan failed, I could commission models or something. I really wanted to develop my game out of passion, but I'll have to add desperation to the mix.

Everything is going to shit in September anyways, so there's that.

>>20258

>So, I decided I would go mad as hell in developing my game, hoping that I would get something decent done and try to jew some money through donations or whatever

Don't want to discourage you but if it's your first game it probably won't be very profitable. Most "indie success stories" come from seasoned veterans. But I guess as a plan B you could always put your game into shitty game bundle XIV, I don't know how much income they make but it seems reliable enough.

>>20267

Something is better than nothing.

I work as a server administrator for a Fortune 500 company, which sounds a lot more profitable than it actually is (I make enough to get by, but I'm actually severely underpaid for my job description). The plus side is that I work second shift, meaning after 5 PM rolls around I'm able to fuck around and do whatever I want for a good five hours, which I either spend learning to dev or playing vidya (since not shit happens during the evening).

im crippled and get disability..

living the dream..

>>21047

1) Reduce your spending

- eat shit food (rice/pasta is really cheap)

- live with roommates

- downgrade to a shitty internet connection

- downgrade to a more limited mobile phone plan

- stop buying anything that isn't essential

- stop drinking and smoking

- buy store-brand everything

Hopefully you can then afford to work less.

2) Free up your time

How many hours a week do you work on average?

At 40 hours/week you have shittons of time.

- Stop watching TV

- Stop hanging out on 8chan and IRC

- Eat and cook as quickly as possible

- Clean as you dirty things, not all at once

- Shower faster

- Never sleep more than 8 hours, unless catching up on lost sleep

3) Just fucking start

Ideas are more important than writing code; though writing code fosters intuitive understanding that's critical. Once you have the basic ideas down spend time when you drive or do easy work writing programs in your head.

>>20227

>I also need to work for more than 8 hours per day on my game

No you don't, not unless you have a deadline you're working to.

>>21027

>6 hours sleep

Pleb, I sleep for mostly 3-5 hours ever since underagedfag, and 6+ occasionnaly on a very lucky day

(insomnia a bitch, and mind can't stop thinkin bout shit stuff at night)

Go get some energy drink, or coffee but dont overdose.

Sugar + lack of sleep makes you dizzier,

never drink coffee @ exactly 6/12/9 hour +-30 mins or you'll end up making yourself sleepier due to increased adenosine receptors.

NEVER drink coffee (or caffeine) after wake up, wait at least 1 hour or you bombard your brain with adenosine+caffeine making you dizzy as ever

>>21062

>Go get some energy drink, or coffee but dont overdose.

Carbohydrates work better longterm, sugar has a crash.

>>21047

In addition of >>21057

4) Don't do your games in C++.

I you want to start quick and fast, use Game Maker or some shit like that.

Writing code is a very long process: conception + construction + tests, not just pissing code quickly.

>Advice from an engineering student making a internship in software development and realizing that everything is slow as fuck.

>>21047

>Not killing your parents and taking the house for yourself.

The child will always have equal or even greater rights over some disgusting assholes who dared abuse the right of birth without any responsibility.

One does not simply run away from their kids.

>>20227

My day job, I work in IT. Which is why my dev career will never take off and this cubicle is my coffin.

>>20234

Is this actually allowed on Patreon? Because I would totally do it if what you're saying is true.

Furry Hentai Patreon pages:

https://www.patreon.com/rika?ty=h

https://www.patreon.com/Amorous?ty=h

https://www.patreon.com/ajna?ty=h

It's allowed, and still profitable, but the market is becoming hugely saturated with furry porn.

You only need food.

And a list of things to do on a daily basis.

>>20234

>> I'm waiting for the market correction to finally cull all the shitty indie devs

Protip: These devs you speak of aren't going away any time soon. Why? Because they're becoming the product of other peoples ventures.

A good example is all of the early release games on Steam.

It's going to take a very large pile of shit before this will calm down.

To further that, soon there will be an influx of shitty devs doing early release stuff for the wide range of VR devices that will be clumped into one or two main APIs being used by everyone.

It begins.

>>21826

And thus, all of us who actually take the effort to make good games will get fucked in the ass.

I'm just fucking useless, but I know a little bit about character design, drawing, modeling, animating, etc.

I wish I could get a job for those skills that won't prevent me from working on my own vidya and personal projects but i dont know.

I get money from the gubbermint for being unemployed and from crippling anxiety.