I am happy for you, brother. You did an amazing job all these years. Keep it up 👍

I am happy for you, my brother. You did an amazing job. Keep it up 👍

Amazing video, wish you all the best!

Mad respect for that level of DRIVE! Insane🔥

Congratulations bro! You made the dream real. Also, good game! I 've played a couple of times

hearttouching video. I've never heard of you nor your game. keep up the great work. ❤

Amazing story! I would like to learn about game development, I’m already a programmer, but I’m not sure where I should start. Any advices?

Working on my first game now, completely self taught just some dumb kid from the middle of no where Virginia, But my love for Video Games & Computers is unreal. 25 with a Wife and 2 kids who drive me to make this dream come true to better our lives vs me having to work on cars full time and lay hardwood floors on the side. Your an inspiration to people like me.

good for you but your mic sucks bro

I feel like I might have been one of your first purchases lol story’s like yours are what’s inspired me to take my own swing a game development.. it’s good to see how the progression of your project has come so far. I appreciate you for putting this out there. Sometimes in my own development journey I feel defeated. Videos like this encourage me to see my visions through. thank you.

I love the game. I bought last year and it helped me through a rough time

Holy shit I just realized we have the same name

Hi, very nice information here for people who wants to go and make their own games.. i'm curious 4:36 is this game made entirely using blueprints or you coded it in C as well? Thank you so much for the inspiring life lesson

Hey Jordy, great game. I was thinking, after the film Gladiator, with Russell Crowe, it'd be great if there was a game on Steam to play a gladiator. Lo and behold! Prayers answered. The combat system is great: it reminds me of War of the Roses, plus some Kingdom Come: Deliverance as well. Great job! Thanks for the game and this vid (I still haven't got the hang of throwing things, but hey....)

bro what was your marketing techniques ?

Hey Jordy! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love this game! Thanks for all your hard work legend!

Amazing game and congratulations on your continued success. The most recent update changed the game completely in my opinion and for the better. I played for about 3 hours straight last night and couldnt get enough. To scared to try that lion mofe tho cause even on gladiator in getting wrecked.

I watched some videos of you, and I'm like WOW! Very good job bro! I'm from belgium aswell, with 0 experience of developing or making games. I got a good idea in my head for a game and want to try it with unreal engine 5.4. Hopes up I can get back to you in a few years and tell you: I DID IT!

I love your game!

Man said "with no publisher" when he literally wrote, produced, developped, and published his own game. Legend in my book

I’m looking for people who want to create a game. I work at an international game studio and we do AA and AAA development. We were at GDC, and if you are looking at building something we’d love to hear from you. We do console, PC, Steam, mobile, VR, and more. Comment or Dm

What a great achievement! Congratulations 🎉🎉

Very inspiring story! I'm about to start my game development journey, from being a 2D/3D Animator and Motion graphics artist, I just spent hours consuming contents that could give me a a head start like this one. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I want to ask if your game is or will be available on Android or IOS?

Just bought this game today and I’m already loving it amazing game and amazing story of how this game came to be!

Your story is amazing and inspirational! 🤯 You had a method, stick on it and improved it. That’s something that 99.999% of indie (let alone solo) devs manage. We who are about to fail, salute you 🫡

was just reseacrching the game to buy, no clue there was a documented dev journey, its on sale for the steam replayability fest and its been on my list for a while, gon def pic it up thx for spending time on dis game looks dope

Excellent and inspiring.

I think a similar game with only sexy female gladiators that looks similar like in Stellar Blade would be awesome. ^^

class dude.

Just ran across your channel… blown away, you’re a legend 🫡

Grats on the sucess man, I was making a game a few years back it was a Streets of Rage esque beatemup with RPG leveling system and randomly generated levels across a wasteland map. The game was set in a post apocolyptic verion of old Yorkshire/England mining towns and featured tongue in cheak factions that jabbed at some of the woke and other cultist groups we have in real life today. The main coding side of the game was pretty much done, just would have added more as ideas came to me or whatever felt good after playtests but the media development was what took most of the time. I came down with meningitis though and ended up in hospital for a while. Now my brain doesnt work like it used to so sadly my game will never see the light of day.

Such an awesome journey, thank you for sharing! Not many have the discipline and devotion to a vision you have. It looks like you used Unreal, were you able to complete the game using primarily blueprints, or did you do a deep dive into C++?

Congratulations dude. Never played an indie game but yours just might be my first. Landed here on your page because I’m thinking of taking the game dev route. Great story to listen to

Cool, we on ps5 will be here when the time comes

The problem is first getting the job that you quit so I can earn money to get the equipment that you have right now T~T

I personally think that the work "around" a game like you describe it in the video, perfect moment for this (e.g. post in social media), perfect moment for that etc. is nowadays the main thing to get a video game sold, not the quality of the game itself. Don't get me wrong, I like your game, but I think if you have all the other "sell" skills you will also have success with a "not so bad" game.

11:00 You are STRESSED! Wow. I can feel it through the screen.

write desktop enterprise type software for day job . Seeing "feature creep" cracked me up :D

Wow, I actually own and enjoyed this game. Awesome to run across your channel! I really hope that you add Steam achievements!

You make me dream, dreams come true sometimes. Hopefully it will be true also for me!

Impressive! Respect!

and this is the last time we saw him

Awesome video and an amazing story!

Splatter cat is a og KZbinr one of the legends

I'm one of your players that got the game because of Jackie fish and splattercats videos and I've played off and on ever since ❤ its an amazing game ESPECIALLY as something created by ONE PERSON!? Even now I'm currently playing the game which crazily gives the game a longer lifetime then ANY of the other games I've bought since...I was one of those people that was actively waiting for the release day. and to this day....its a game that is so unique I don't personally think i've ever played anything similar and that is just outright impressive.

Watching this in 2024, while me and a friend from university are planning on creating our own gaming company and become full time game devs, is just an inspiration! Congrats and huge respect for your extreme hard work! Keep up the good job!

its a pretty fun game. Thank you.

That's my dream, or maybe be a electronics, but, game developer is my wish.

Я в шоке. Ленин воскрес и делает игры)))

Any chance the game will recieve steam deck support? I would purchase the game if it was able to be played on deck