How to Become a Developer | My Story

[@CodeMonkeyUnity]

Very interesting story, it's awesome how nowadays you can completely change careers by watching online videos!

[@Logically_Fallacious]

Code Monkey are you stepping into the breach that Brackeys left? I hope so man, there's only so much I know Idk Idk, and I rely on ytube to identify the things idk idk about in my random walk (almost) learning Unity. On the other hand, the idea of working in the industry, at least the VFX industry like Flipped Normals, with their peon to the industry's corps to stop riding their devs to the point of insanity with mandated overtime... it's ok, I'm not doing this for a job, cause be careful what you wish for, you may get it and then like the ppl at Projekt RED, leave or try to find where their minds have gone... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGnHZIKjpqZ7f68 their plea to stop getting worked to insanity/death.

[@cartruck4118]

yr

[@InfallibleCode]

Thank you for sharing your story, Nicky. I think it'll do a lot of people good to hear that it's never too late to pursue their passion. The only way to fail is to stop trying!

[@LynxAllen-ho4ym]

Yes bro you are absolutely right what you just said. You are amazing bro thanks for sharing your journey 🎉🎉🎉.

[@aarnavsanghvi740]

This channel is so underrated

[@jackvicari5318]

Hey man! New subscriber, I really enjoyed your tutorial on the Unity Animator. Super helpful, especially since you explained in depth what everything meant, rather than just saying what it does. It was really cool to hear your story!

[@FaffyWaffles]

You are going to be the next Brackeys, calling it now. Leaving this comment so that it can record I was in the first 20k.

[@SilverTempest_]

It's impressive you were able to go from zero to employed so quickly! That takes some real dedication! My story is about 5 years longer. I started fiddling with Javascript in high school with no prior experience, and at some point in my junior year or so, I decided I wanted to be a game developer. So I went to college and got my computer science degree, and then it took me over a year to get a job. It's just a software engineering job, not gamedev, but I've been able to introduce Unity into our workflow, and I'm still working on personal projects on the side. The dream is that I'll be able to live off of my own projects one day.

[@elitexcoffin3048]

You are the best 😇

[@MegaAbhirox]

i can't believe bro you you are above 25 you look so young great content buddy thanks

[@galv-dennis-huynh]

I've been watching videos on developing with Unity for about a week now (I tried back in 2014 and gave up being a hobbyist gamedev because I was a full time architecture student) and stumbled upon your videos, found them so straightforward and helpful that I was pleasantly surprised to hear this story! I am ALSO a year and a half through my journey from zero to programmer and did it through a bootcamp (Hack Reactor - learned Javascript/React + Full Stack Node). I was hired immediately after to teach programming and still do so to enterprise company trainees. But like you say, stability and free time was worth all the hard work to reskill and now I get to learn game dev and understand these programming concepts - something I didn't dream of doing back in 2014 while busy with university. Your videos are great! Thanks for your story too!

[@NevRS32]

Dude, I simply love your channel and your videos. Videos of personal experiences are really important to make people relate. Thank you and best of luck!

[@tauheedgamedev2388]

Great Zero to Hero story. Free time and Stability is the main reason I also started developing games. I actually tried to start doing gamedev 8 years ago when Unity 3 came out but my job at the time was too stressful and I didn't have a lot of free time to pursue anything else. 👍

[@MarkRiverbank]

Thanks, Nicky. I’ve been programming since punch cards and paper tape, but my youngest graduated this year in Computer Science and has been frustrated with the lack of jobs between COVID cutbacks and cheap off-shore labor. I shared your story and hope he finds some encouragement.

[@xsraut]

This was what i needed. Thanks Nicky.

[@AdarshKumar-hl3nm]

Really Great Advice Man! I am also doing unpaid internship and I enjoy every part of it. It took me while to get it. I am still doing my university but I keep my hopes up :)

[@lukegf0]

I love that story. Thank you for sharing it with us. It was inspiring and uplifting. Like you, I myself am also a full time software engineer by day and mooning as an indie game developer nights and weekends. I enjoy developing software during the day, but my true passion is game development. Your channel is one of the best ones for Unity game developers. Please keep doing what you are doing, you have a talent for breaking down complicated concepts and explaining them in a way that's easy to understand.

[@iHeartGameDev]

Hey thanks for watching Luke! I appreciate the kind words. I definitely plan on continuing making videos because I'd love to make my own game down the line and I'm happy sharing what I learn along the way! Cheers mate :)

[@chihabmohammedamine3189]

good luck bro ... you deserve all goods in the world hope to see more of animation tutorials

[@adamdadura1101]

To echo Code Monkey, a very interesting story. It's what made me subscribe to your channel. It's actually quite inspiring and shows that perseverance (not a lotto ticket or a one-hit wonder dev game) is going to get you ahead in life and offer you that stability. Myself I am a Hardware engineer by trade, classically trained (attending college, etc) but SW has always been pervasive throughout pretty much anything we do in engineering, and game development in particular is a branch of SW (and a branch of the Arts in general) that has always fascinated me. It's not until the Covid-enforced lockdown that I finally decided to embrace it in my spare time, and that led me eventually to Unity, and to your channel (and CM, Brackeys, Tom Brush, Jason, all the other greats). Congratulations, first of all, but also please keep doing what you're doing! I find your posts and tutorials not just informative, but also very well paced and well presented and palatable to newcomers. You have a natural knack for teaching (or a lot of practice) and all the tiny visual & audio cues and pacing and framing do help a lot too. It's actually kind of reminiscent of Brackeys where "you can't help but learn" if you follow along, so by all means keep going. The positive attitude and "optimism through plan and persistence" doesn't hurt either. I do have a "mini me" at home who is also interested in learning game development (instead of just playing them) and who also wants to become a SW engineer, so your story is quite the hallmark to share and for him to get inspired by. And for me, a great way to catch my "second wind". Thank you and best of luck in future videos! Thumbs up!

[@alexjackson3767]

Awesome video my man - honestly really inspiring. I can't imagine the amount of hard work you must have put in to get to where you are today.

[@ibrahem891]

Thank you, truly helpful and supportive video .

[@durottar]

Keep doing it like that bro, you are an awesome person!

[@codeFriendlyART]

Nicky about this video, the most important thing to me, that you mentioned is 'you can not (or shouldn't) take stability for granted'! and I would add, even less you should, quality of life. So totally agreed with this. In my case, I've been a systems administrator/coder/technician for many long years now. And precisely, that's what actually has been my 'problem' into getting serious into the gamedev realm - I think that, since I've always known that I can rely on the 'stability' of my field of expertise, then I haven't really pressed hard enough as to be able to fully switch to gamedev field of work. So yeah, 'taking things for granted' is definitely not a good thing to do. I'm happy that today, after hearing those wise words, I can look at my current efforts and realize, that finally I'm being able to start achieving the goal of working towards my own gamedev studio in the sense of starting to have published work out there. It's really great to see how technology has empowered people by helping them reach their professional dreams/goals in the form of freely available education. Really glad for you! That's some extensive hard work, dedication and competitive spirit you have put over the table, so well deserved! 💪🔥

[@codeFriendlyART]

@@iHeartGameDev You are so right! Same to you man, thanks for taking the time to reply! Keep going with your ultra awesome tutorials series! Learning a lot from them now that they got advanced man! 👊

[@koleision]

LOVE YOUR WORK MAN!!!

[@samyam]

That's awesome, happy for you!

[@ManusLlane]

Very inspirational, thank you for sharing.

[@iHeartGameDev]

Awesome -- thank you for watching!

[@godetarnaud1005]

Hey, I discovered your channel recently (I was following some Unity basic tutorial from Sebastien Lague and just thought that it would be cool to do the tutorial with a character instead of a cube, and so I started watching your videos !) and I must say you're doing some great tutorials step by step easy to follow, entertaining and you also have a really interesting story so thanks for everything you're doing, I'm probably gonna be following your incoming videos in order to learn to make cool stuff with Unity. Btw you talked about your portfolio it could have been cool to put it in the description or a github profile to see what kind of stuff you made before getting a job (: I'm also learning computer science so that's why I'm especially curious about what you learned for web development. Big up from France, you're awesome dude.

[@jeffreyhicks6380]

I went to a coding bootcamp as well, and I highly recommend to any one who is serious about software engineering, to go to one. The stuff they teach is current industry stuff. It'll kick your butt (what Nicky said is TRUE), but if you're serious about software engineering, it's definitely worth it!

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

look at any video game dev website. virtually NOTHING for art or sound, but theyre always hiring programmers. some shit....

[@hamzasaleem5957]

@@monkeyrobotsinc.9875 Agreed!

[@yagokurt9]

Amazing video Nicky! Thanks for sharing, it really gave me the motivation to keep studying and definitely will give a shot on the MIT course.

[@mehranmd4855]

Interesting, Some good friend and strong will you got right there. Personally i did 2 years of low paid job while i was at university studying IT which cost me 2 more semesters and a bit lower grades but right after graduation i got a good job at a medical company as a Qt/Qml developer. I just couldn't stop there, right now i know more than 12 programming languages which im master at 5 of them including ReactNative. hopefully next programming language will be c# and my dream currier is game programming which i'm putting time and effort to get to it.

[@TNTCProject]

Great Video Nicky! It's very cool that you share your work-study-experimenting-growing-story :) Very inspirational. Ps: Personally, I really like React Native like many other js technologies that use a component approach! - Erik

[@ThousandAnt]

Great video Nicky! Awesome story!

[@sammaji9475]

You are awesome 👨

[@AscentXR]

Hey Nicky... Great insight and inspiration! I really like your Bolt tutorials and your "this is not that hard" attitude! Not a big fan of the background music under everything, maybe just for the intro and end. :) My story is about 25 years longer but you are right on the money with your path. Looking forward to more.

[@AscentXR]

Also.... I'm looking for unity devs to work on VR. www.linkedin.com/posts/jbisesi_were-growing-our-team-please-forward-activity-6732647974536568833-nny4

[@enduroeveryday1325]

Congrats!

[@moonlightgamedevs6619]

That's a great story, thanks for sharing it!

[@corriedotdev]

Nice timeline. Out of interest what made you want to focus on unity animation tutorials initially? It's interesting because it is an area that isnt discussed a lot.. props for quality content and GL with the work!

[@kentrose2520]

Pretty crazy how someone can change their direction in life in such a short amount of time.

[@iHeartGameDev]

I’ve been very fortunate to find what I consider to be my passion in life. If I didn’t like programming, I wouldn’t be where I am today!

[@RedefineGamedev]

Very interesting story, Nicky! I am really curious what is your next step with the channel. Good luck!

[@adamaze2920]

@@iHeartGameDev How about starting Umotion animation tutorial? creating animation from scratch in Unity.. That be cool

[@IrfanAli-so5hh]

"The only way that you don't become an engineer is if you stop trying." 💛 -Nicky 2020

[@adamdadura1101]

Well said, words to live by! :)

[@IrfanAli-so5hh]

Your story taught me - "Its never too late" I mean just 1-3 Years can change your entire life.

[@IrfanAli-so5hh]

@@iHeartGameDev Can I enroll for MIT Course at age 16 ? Am I allowed at this small age?

[@signalised9540]

Interesting talk!

[@YourHighwayInTheSky]

I requested this!! WOO

[@XadegamerOfficial]

Thanks for sharing

[@7415_Gamer]

Very inspiring.

[@Chickengbs]

yes yes yes! NICKY MY MANNNNNNNNNN

[@max_programming2337]

Hi great video!

[@rentaspoon219]

Just want to add if you want to go for it do it, I was worried that my hobbie would become my job and then I wouldn't want to do it. My current job is in the automotive and I don't have time to do coding. Go for it and don't miss out

[@commander9173]

🔥🤟🤍 inspiring story we will follow that links

[@inacent1118]

Whats the first language you learnt?

[@gonchi2610]

will this free course help me if I want to learn C#? I know its a different language but can I learn something useful?

[@nichegames9590]

Cool story bro. Jk, it actually is a really cool story.

[@IrfanAli-so5hh]

Can I enroll for MIT Course at age 16 ? Am I allowed at this small age? Is there any minimum age to enroll?

[@Logically_Fallacious]

Whoa my comment got sensored. I wanted to say Valheim was my inspiration to learn Unity and C#. I had a link to imgur to show a pic of my first mod of my vegan total conversion mod, which was a pic of a Tulip Clup. That must have been too controversial? I'm using your videos as a "going to first principles" because I've used UE4 and only as a filmmaking engine. So, gameplay is new to me.

[@iHeartGameDev]

Hahah I saw it get censored too! Not sure why! But thank you for sharing your gamedev story and I’m happy to hear my tutorials have been helpful! If there is anything you’d like me to cover in the future, I’m always open to suggestions!

[@Logically_Fallacious]

@@iHeartGameDev Is it possible that the imgur link is not allowed on ytube? I'm unaware of that issue... is there anyway I could have shown a pic of a club made from tulips that you know about? I'm still scratching my head about it atm. You're prefab video was the first straight, direct video that explained what is going on, especially given I take prefabs from the game and modify them, now I get how best to do that. The tulip club the way I duplicated it, was wrong, and why some of the behaviors didn't come over unmolested, e.g., its particle system which I have to change to mild puffs of petals as it hits stuff... My only issue I'm confused about atm is I've seen ppl always resetting additions to a prefab to 0,0,0 in the transform, and Idt you showed that. (Unsure, I'm currently operating at learning saturation levels.) Appreciate the response. That auto (sic) sensoring has happened on other channels with my comments on occasion, and when I've asked or indicated to the creators they said it wasn't them. Now given 3 or 4 ppl having said that and you, it's more credible. Thank you for your effort making these videos.

[@iHeartGameDev]

Hmm so resetting of the transform to the origin would only be so that every time we instantiate the prefab we would know it’s at the origin. I think when we instantiate we can also pass in a vector so maybe if it’s not at the origin the vector is added to the instance or something. Not 100% sure to be honest 😊

[@Logically_Fallacious]

@@iHeartGameDev k, no worries, I'm still on my random walk...

[@elitexcoffin3048]

Can i learn C# language directly without knowing other language like 'c' or 'C++'?

[@elitexcoffin3048]

Thanks 😇

[@ibrahem891]

@@elitexcoffin3048 learn algorithms and object oriented programming then dive into any programming language you like.

[@elitexcoffin3048]

@@ibrahem891 thanks😇

[@CosplayZine]

Great stuff, not sure if it's just me but the words seems slightly off from the sound.

[@CosplayZine]

@@iHeartGameDev Oh that makes sense. It was almost spot on so much that I didnt notice until about halfway in. For a moment I was questioning if it was my internet lagging or if I had just not gotten enough sleep the night before.

[@inorishu1877]

🔥🔥🔥

[@lukarisisgaming]

really it took you 5 months ? i am looking for programmmers and other It people here in austria and bulgaria and dont find people..

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

you rule.

[@odinniereece4096]

I tried game development in 2017.. But i gave up😩😩.. Its the corona (Covid 19) that made me restart it

[@odinniereece4096]

@@iHeartGameDev thanks..

[@someone242b5]

Ah yes you've done it

[@devinmcgee5265]

10/10

[@cool8849]

use unreal engine

[@spideyman1909]

4th

[@xX_dash_Xx]

the dislikes came from Angular devs LOL

[@xX_dash_Xx]

idk why but for some reason I can't see your replies on other people's comments...

[@iHeartGameDev]

@@xX_dash_Xx I just switched to a brand account today :) it deletes all of your comments from the personal account

[@xX_dash_Xx]

@@iHeartGameDev ah I see. probably a smart move in the long run if your old account was "dirty" (im using a throwaway 99% of the time haha)

[@iHeartGameDev]

@@xX_dash_Xx lol it wasn’t it was actually just my name :) but I’m trying to build a brand with this name. You actually found my channel on the one year anniversary 😅

[@xX_dash_Xx]

@@iHeartGameDev I actually went to university for CS and math, but ended up graduating to the worst economy of the history of the united states lmao. So I signed a 2-year contract with a group that told me they would train me and place me within a development role... still doing SCRUM work at this point and the company im at has legacy systems-- I was taught sprint boot and angular (I swear I didn't dislike!!). I am spending nearly all my free time coding little apps and trying to get into game dev so I don't get rusty. Thanks for the video, tho, very inspirational and I'm glad you found your way to coding!

[@AndreaLPM1]

Do you live alone?

[@YourHighwayInTheSky]

You knew absolutely nothing before starting the MIT class? Not even HTML?

[@gbhgvhgbh]

First

[@cartruck4118]

😲 😴