How much revenue I make as an indie game developer

[@masterlewzilla2116]

wow, really cool stuff! im also trying to get into game developtment! thanks for sharing

[@miniyeti88]

Best of luck!

[@isboto9219]

You are giving me HOPE ! thank you

[@JamalDolleyGames]

Happy for your success, congrats. Publishing on Switch and Xbox as a solo indie is the holy grail of indie dev!

[@miniyeti88]

It’s not that hard as everyone thinks

[@JamalDolleyGames]

@@miniyeti88 That's good to know ;)

[@954ent7]

Great work man!! Very inspiring, thank you for sharing your journey and the tips and tricks you have picked up along the way!

[@NostalgikGamez]

you're really inspiring me to get off my ass and start my game dev journey!!! I appreciate the content bro!!! Keep it up!!!

[@miniyeti88]

Good luck man!

[@josh_swanson]

Very awesome. Just gave me a shot in the arm to finish up my work in progress. Love the success story

[@miniyeti88]

Thanks so much

[@Iwkio1661]

Thank you for keeping us updated! You are trully inspiration for rest of us to keep working on our games! So big thanks!

[@daichi_devs]

This was so informative. thank you so much Ivan :D

[@miniyeti88]

Gracias 😊

[@saifgames007]

Congrats man that's awesome i can't wait to complete my first commercial game!!

[@miniyeti88]

Good luck!

[@furkan10ky]

Wow, this is very inspiring and motivational! I want to make a game, but I'm 13 and find Unity very hard. Just thinking about that much money at a young age makes me want to try it too.

[@miniyeti88]

Ahahah man :D start slowly and by 18 you'll be rich!

[@furkan10ky]

Yes, hopefully.

[@sohunmi6670]

The benefit starting with 13 is you dont have commitments to have find money and have a lot time for learning process. The benefit of adult is money but you dont really have much time. Quit job for making game without any proud product is basically suicide and gamble move

[@captainHunter]

kardeşim sana bi tavsiye, kesinlikle bırakma senin yaşındayken bende başlamıştım ve bıraktım sonrasında şuan universite son sınıfım. eğer ki devam ediyor olsaydım şuan bambaşka bir yerde olurdum, bak yaz bunu bi kenara sakın bırakma bu işleri ilerde çok pişman olursun bırakırsan

[@aliusa6327]

I just discover your chanel and i subsribed to it cos you make us believe that making a game as solo developer still possible , wish you all the best keep it bro🙏

[@KaanAlpar]

You are crushing it! Good work Ivan

[@AnasMations]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience!

[@palmsprings1628]

Dude, thank you for sharing tips!!

[@stefanotkg9310]

You are very clear and a positive developer sharing this content with others! You are inspiring me

[@miniyeti88]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@snArtPage]

Super useful stuff here. Thanks for sharing.

[@saarza9991]

I have played your games 😊. I want to work with you, not for money, but for passion. But I don't know how 😅

[@termoyader]

That's really interesting video, i'm making my first game(mobile) and want to get some revenue from it to buy needed stuff to develop next games with comfort, will use your advices, thanx for sharing your experience.

[@miniyeti88]

Cool , I’m very glad

[@darkainsoul]

Amazing content and really helpful.

[@kofiro253]

I've never clicked so fast lol

[@miniyeti88]

Ahaha man :D hope you'll get some inspiration!

[@kofiro253]

@@miniyeti88 Thanks dude! and Congrats! This is really inspiring! I'm happy for you!

[@miniyeti88]

@@kofiro253 Thank you!

[@kofiro253]

@@miniyeti88 You're welcome!

[@apnadekhtu]

@@miniyeti88 hey man you still have yodo1 test ad running check otherwise you will loss huge revenue...

[@adityaanuragi6916]

Absolutely inspiring!!

[@Fl1ckermg]

Ждем новые творения. Как появится игра в Стиме пиши, сделаю пост у себя в сообществе. Успехов

[@miniyeti88]

Уже есть в Стиме предзаказ 😊

[@louzynerd129]

i feel ashamed from downloading from pirate web sites but never this game, u deserve the money, i usually download from pirate sites when the game is old and very successful since they don't need my extra money lol

[@LongerTomTV]

Thanks for sharing! Good luck!

[@miniyeti88]

Thanks

[@gamedevwannabe1877]

This is so inspiring, thank you for sharing this man

[@miniyeti88]

No problem man! 😊

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

Very interesting Ivan. Thanks for sharing.

[@nullx2368]

I know your channel isn't about coding but, If you could make videos on how you implemented firebase in your game/its cost etc would be awesome. Basically production features, no one ever covers these in tutorials. Maybe even live stream it when you do it for your own game, could be fun!

[@miniyeti88]

Sure! Fire base I can do!

[@thuylinh8910]

thank you for this video. It's so motivating!!

[@leandro_damasceno]

Congrats man! I hope someday I can also live off my mobile games.

[@rushawngillespie31]

Nice video man, Can you please do a video on how to use yodo1 because their tutorial is quite hard to understand

[@miniyeti88]

They ve got the video tutorial on their website

[@Stef-an]

Thanks for giving me hope mate, you rock!

[@miniyeti88]

No worries 😉

[@sohunmi6670]

Wait, i have questions. Isnt that the freemium one already have In app purchase for ads remove? Why do you make premium edition for ads removed? I read that IAP ads remove is better than premium in separate app due to pirate issue. Also, thanks for sharing your marketing strategy and your experience as well. No wonder you change title from Endurance into Endurance : space shooting RPG game which is much better ASO for exposure. Also, do you plan to make 3D game in future? I visit your website portfolio and i can tell you have a lot experience in 3D model and animation.

[@daymaker_trading]

Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@miniyeti88]

No problem 😊

[@Pac-bq2sn]

Very useful tips 👍

[@canalcurvinhas710]

Awesome vídeo!

[@KETANRAMTEKE]

Awesome again,if possible please do change the title indicating it having revenue and analytical information.

[@samirsamir7779]

appreciating your honesty , is there any coming full course to learn how to go step by step from newbie to a hero commercial indie developer please ? (with unity of course)

[@jimkurth]

Wow! This is just inspiring me to work harder on completing my Unity indie 2D game. Thanks for sharing! It's hard being an independent indie game developer and especially hard trying to get your first game out. I really want to make game dev what brings the bread home and I've been programming for 27 years but have never published a completed game on the Internet. It's usually a working game engine but nothing much more. Do you have any advice that helps accomplish the game? For instance, a template or cookie-cutter plan on how you laid things out to develop? Did you focus on 1 core task until it was done before switching or did you plan out your work and jump from 1 thing to another until those classes/modules were completed?

[@miniyeti88]

Thanks! Good luck! I’d say for me always the plan is to have exact deadline to know when i will be over and can rest. And also knowing that I can work no stop not more than 4 months. Then I’m burned out .

[@martinpellicer8489]

Great video like ever. But I think that for living from developing games you have to have one of this: Like $10000 to advertise your game. A youtube channel. Be lucky. If you don’t have one of this it is very probably that your game have less than 1000 downloads and win a single dollar will be a big challenge

[@miniyeti88]

I made two games, using same marketing strategy for both, spent around 2500-3000 on Marketing and both games were featured couple times on the stores and it happened no because of luck, but because of my actions. KZbin channel doesn't really help my game, but it helps get some more revenue. I also thought it was luck that my first game was featured, but with the second one I proved its not luck. Its a hard work and dedication. So it will be the same with 3rd, 4th and so on.

[@martinpellicer8489]

Ivan Panasenko nice, That a lot of money, but at least there is not $10000, it would be very interesting that you can make a video in what you spend that money, like facebook ads, google ads etc.. wish you the best

[@miniyeti88]

I have already a video about that! Check Marketing of my first game

[@louietheswan9689]

Cool video

[@pan4387]

Прошу тебя, УМОЛЯЮ добавь не ломаемую пушку в начале игры для спидранов (можно добавить отдельный режим)

[@johnsonwale3276]

Good one Ivan, I'd love to ask you which laptop is best for game development as a beginner. Thanks

[@praisethesun2612]

Damn thats inspiring!

[@vr4network734]

Hey nice journey. How much did u spend in early marketing for endurance game? And when did u stop marketing it further ? Like upto certain budget ? Or up to certain downloads completed ?

[@gonzalopared5054]

Hadas una tercer entrega??, y te tiro una idea puedes poner una animacion de ejecutar como el doom

[@rezaanataj6978]

That's great😍 You inspired me to make a similar game I'm just doing this as my hobby and I'm half way done. I can't pay for advertisement Do you think free marketing can help me out?

[@miniyeti88]

I m sure it will do some work! Just spread as much words about your game as u can

[@rezaanataj6978]

That's actually my plan and also add twitch and Facebook to the list

[@nikokotto8240]

Can you make video about localization ? On what level of your development you need to think about that? And how to find right company for that? You mentioned that endurance has many languages.

[@miniyeti88]

Sure!

[@danielpacker8227]

Thanks for sharing this! A question - did you hire someone else to do the artwork? Do you have any suggestions for finding an artist to do custom work for a game?

[@notoiara]

Congrats! You are so inspiring. About porting to nintendo switch, how did you get the development kit?

[@miniyeti88]

I just applied for it, you need to get approval first from Nintendo

[@Hamsters_Rage]

расскажи пожалуйста откуда брал графику для первой игры? рисовал сам или кому-то заказывал? где художника нашел? сколько примерно стоило всё? сколько отдельные части типа отдельной анимации одного человека? спасибо

[@miniyeti88]

Сам все рисовал да для первой , научился за дня 3-4 по видео урокам

[@salehodinie6615]

Ivan, as always, thanks for the video! It was very informative! May I ask how much did you pay to advertise your game?

[@madewithreallemons263]

I started making games about the same time as you and I felt like coming into game development with no art skills is a huge disadvantage. Coming from a programmer background, I can make game mechanics and, in my opinion, good game design, however my games always look like trash and I end up paying a freelance artist and the games never look like I imagine them... What's your advice? How can I work better with artists to get my vision correctly

[@miniyeti88]

You need to make moodboards for those artists you hire , so they know what kind of feeling you re putting into the game. Find examples of the images or even videos from existing games and send it to them before they start drawing

[@jerechochan3488]

as a college student, i want to know where you learned all this stuff. Because i really want to develop games and would also like to support my parents. can you give a tutorial? or programming topics needed to be learned first before delving into game development?

[@adam2O]

Start small. Download a game engine, either Unity or Unreal Engine, both free. Search youtube for tutorials of what you want to create. I'm using Unreal engine right now because I don't know how to code that well. It has blueprints, which is visual scripting. I think Unity does have some sort of visual scripting, but it's paid. Don't spend any money on assets or anything until you are confident enough to create something worthwhile. Google is your best friend on any questions you have in game developing.

[@hotellinaweb]

Very inspirational 😍. Have you had to pay Unity somehow?

[@miniyeti88]

Thank you 😊 no man, nothing

[@branidev]

how much game gonna cost on Steam? more then paid version on Google play? btw great move to do 2 versions of the game... but still as you see free game with ads vs paid one, still "free to play" is worth more

[@miniyeti88]

Yeah, true. On Steam it will 7.99, same for Xbox and Nintendo Switch , I've changed some stuff there

[@Billcomesback]

Man i got tears in my face knowing it's possible, i live in a very poor country and i always give all my best for my mom, and this really gives me hope to do what i love and give her a better life. Thanks. for real.

[@miniyeti88]

I’m very glad man! I wish you huge success! Where are u from?

[@Billcomesback]

@@miniyeti88 Ecuador, i'm looking foward to learn new things!

[@KappGaming]

My first game only got 2 downloads on google play even though i spend so much time on aso and trying to make the game look nice :( Edit: after 3 months

[@miniyeti88]

Marketing, this is 50% of work on your game

[@KappGaming]

@@miniyeti88 Im only 15 so i can only do free Marketing. Is there anything i can do for free exept from sending e Mails to youtubers and reviewers? I think i maybee go back to gamejolt & itch because i got 100 - 500 Downloads on my free games there.

[@madewithreallemons263]

@@KappGaming Use tiktok, target your audience there

[@knowledgedost1907]

Hi sir i want to upload my brand new N Adroid and ios game can you develeop for me ??

[@cameroncooper4291]

how long before you get paid ?? from these guys

[@miniyeti88]

60 days the first time, and then once every month

[@victory9015]

Have you ever tried StartApp? Making a living from games is my biggest dream in my life, but it very hard and need big budget :(

[@miniyeti88]

Just start without budget and with couple of games you’ll earn it

[@victory9015]

@@miniyeti88 I need to hire someone to make the game unfortunately because can't make the game. And that needs big budget.

[@CrissCHG]

bring your ideas down to earth

[@collinsa8909]

Good Informative content but elaborate some more so that people can get quality information to start out on. Also take time out to reply to your commenters. I see many useful questions ignored by you. Try to answer st least 100 comments bf going AWOL.

[@miniyeti88]

Thanks I’ll try 😊

[@bluethrone]

Интересно как вы относитесь к мобильному геймингу?

[@miniyeti88]

В целом не очень, 90% игр сделаны ради денег и не имеют никакой игровой ценности

[@bluethrone]

Согласен.

[@nafffff4733]

Il est possible de faire des sous titre français 😅 ?

[@olekspin]

Не думал потестить Appodeal вместо отдельных сеток?

[@miniyeti88]

А он даёт выше ecpm?

[@olekspin]

@@miniyeti88 это его главная задача. Но, естественно, надо тестировать. Вообще, удачи :)

[@punkentertainment42]

witch wich framework was this game made ?

[@miniyeti88]

It’s unity

[@punkentertainment42]

@@miniyeti88 hey thanks for your answer. after I watched some videos from you I have already seen it

[@aleks3449]

uhhhh, I might be dumb, but what’s SDK and ASO :)?

[@Kitarp06]

Sdk is software development kit Aso is app store optimisation to generate more installs

[@miniyeti88]

Yep 👍

[@gayan1742]

Would you still recommend Yodo1? They should be doing something special if they are to pay more eCPM than big players like Admob.

[@miniyeti88]

For sure I will recommend Yodo1, still gets me 100$ per day

[@LeviAckerman-xt7dx]

@@miniyeti88 have u already tried admob mediation?

[@jupa1336]

this yodo website is unreachable..

[@miniyeti88]

For me works perfectly

[@_masssk_]

Про пиратов грустно стало.

[@miniyeti88]

Угу ну что поделать и мы в детстве грешили

[@pan4387]

НИПОНЕЛ

[@RavenCroftLoft]

Your work ethic makes me feel like a bum rofl. Its like you have 48 hr days haha.

[@bollvigblack]

sentence "Make living out of making games is possible" is already telling me to never even try to learn game development

[@miniyeti88]

Why not? This one is a good one ☝️