Make a Game with $0 budget

[@shadow-god9626]

Me: you can really make a game with no MONEY tairagames:first you need to buy a $600 computer Me:oh

[@monobloc]

of course you need something to do the game with

[@frenic906]

it's been a year now, are you still a dip shit?

[@gauravnegi4312]

Congrats for achieving 69 likes.

[@Justo_racks_onMe]

My computer cost money but it’s definitely not 600 get a job

[@tippmannowner]

Jokes on you I was gifted a computer on my birthday so hah

[@Miro55Gaming]

Although this video was a little click baity it wasn't all that misleading and it's definitely an interesting video, keep it up mate.

[@darioezequiel9855]

i know im randomly asking but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost my account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me

[@jerryroy9994]

@Dario Ezequiel instablaster ;)

[@ameerfisher2440]

@@darioezequiel9855 that’s cool

[@toreole2993]

Technically nothing is free....... (Looks into space)

[@kidpog3d101]

Toreole Superzocker jexcept BLENDER

[@BlazertronGames]

Toreole Superzocker it's true, you still need a computer and Internet access if you want to make a game

[@VenturiLife]

You need the electrons. The universe doesn't give those up freely... yet.

[@TheOswald42]

yeah, even breathing also cost you energy, the air just don't rush in and out your lung automatically

[@The13thGopher]

@shades2 maybe in the next update.

[@MicahandModesta]

Nice to see a fellow New Zealander talking about these topics. I've been re-speccing to game dev on my own and it's awesome that people make it down here :D

[@Czarewich]

I love this video, but it's important to remember if you're intending on selling your game, you shouldn't consider your own labour as free. If you're going to sustain yourself off of your business, you need to be able to make a livable wage. You need to know how much that wage would cost, then compare it to how much money you expect to make, and then again to how much money you actually make after selling your game.

[@Arkylie]

Well... I'm assuming that anyone trying their hand at games for the first time, with zero budget and few to no team members, is not anticipating a return on their time investment. They are learning skills that may eventually lead to money gigs, but often will not. When I write fanfiction, it's a significant time investment, but I get paid in the way my fans comment and the joy of having created a cool thing that exists now. My dad, however, keeps seeing things always in terms of money, and every time he tries to say I should be earning money off my fanfiction efforts, it feels more and more like he's belittling what I'm actually doing. Not everything needs to be done for money. There's a whole Creative Commons movement right now, and in fact that's one of the things I was down here in the comments to say: You don't have to make your own music (Incompetech.com) or sound effects, there are communities that have made tons of game graphics (Charas Project) for use in noncommercial games (and almost certainly groups that create graphics for use in commercial games as well), you can get free photos (Unsplash, Pixabay) that don't even need to be credited -- there's just a ton of resources out there, because some people have found it more pleasing to create things for the free use of others than to get directly paid for them. Or, rather, they tend to consider that their money comes from a small percentage of those who make use of their products, and they freely offer the product to the people who don't pay for it. Once you move into more serious efforts to actually sell your product, you'll probably need to create your own material, or hire people to make unique pieces -- people get turned off by seeing that your characters are the default RPG Maker characters, or hearing the same incompetech piece they've heard everywhere -- but for getting a start in programming, especially hobbyist programming, there's no need for ANY budget, and you needn't feel like you've wasted your time just because you didn't get paid for it.

[@JolanXBL]

0:50 Is this guy suggesting that free games are not good games? Boy, that really makes me want to code now..

[@ProfessionalismTrash]

Jolan XBL no, he said they are not always good

[@tippmannowner]

Raid shadow lengends: am I a joke to you

[@Matti-_-Tola]

GROB well raid sucks

[@someone_missing]

honestly

[@shane1840]

WTF Guy what about Roblox, Dragon ball legends or Yu-Gi-Oh duel links

[@-._____-]

Suprisingly better than those low effort unity trash games on steam considering that this only took 4 hours to make.

[@BlazertronGames]

King Me Jumpman yeah, those people are just trying to make a quick buck, they make unity look bad

[@Legendarior]

They usually buy game code or ready made games from cheap indian freelancer, hire another freelancer artist from a cheap country to reskin said game, sell the game on steam, hire another artist to reskin the same game again, resell it...it is a whole business...

[@-._____-]

Legendarior Damn that is such a depressing way to make games.

[@PartyClasherGamingHD]

i wonder who buys those games

[@notbot8830]

I buy games like that cause I have no self respect

[@nodvick]

Thanks for the distribution advice! I was a "fluent" programmer in Visual Basic in the 2001-2007 range, C++ in 2003-07 and C# I think in 2005-07.. also webdesign crap like Javascript/Html/Css 01-07 and Php/Sql 03/4-07. in 07 I joined the US military and haven't coded anything besides little side tools that made my job easier since then. I'm just getting back into it, as my passion pre-military was game development. While I've only been through a couple of your videos so far, your channel is awesome and I'm extremely thankful it's here, considering - aside from a very good long-term memory - I'm basically starting from scratch here, haha!

[@nodvick]

I started work on a game in raw C#, since by far it is my favorite programming language... got quite a bit done (back-end of: the combat system, data saving & loading, inventory, armor, stats, temporary boosts, etc.. very basic stuff) then started work on the engine/front end.. realized how god awfully long it would take and started looking into other engines out there. downloaded unity and unreal, very happy to see unity is C# and have already redone my code to fit the unity framework, and full of inspiration for what to do with my game idea. I'm so used to using raw C# I keep running into places where I write code to handle something, then find out that C# handles exactly that for you and I can set up unity to do it then scrap 50-200 LOSC (lines of source code).. it frustrates me that I already spent time writing it, but I really like it when I find out that these little things have already been taken care of for when I need to do similar things in the future. Before I get too far into it though I'm currently downloading the unreal engine and am going to port the code over to C++ and redo everything in unreal an see which one I truly like better, but to be honest I'm hoping I'll enjoy unity more just from what I've seen and heard from your videos. Even if using Unreal will get me more purchases from the fanboys in the future xD!

[@siribeemz5017]

To be honest I’m still watching because of humour and his face when he plays something 😂😂

[@greggeverman5578]

Yeah!

[@pomerolledin1]

i wanted to make a creepy game

[@usteeler81]

TairaGames I stumbled across your videos watching another KZbinr's Unreal game footage and I like what I see, your videos go into good detail but are concise and don't have unnecessary jargon. I am an instant subscriber! Keep up the good work!

[@zmayer6207]

I love the serious face you make when u are showing us the sound effects xD

[@nathanwoods1583]

Thankyou for linking these software programs. huge help and saves me a few annoying google searches.

[@hippocrates72]

awesome concise description of the project. thanks a lot!

[@KittenLB]

NOPE👎👎

[@KittenLB]

Lol

[@QueirozVini]

Man, you're amazingly fun to watch and listen. Thanks for this video!

[@QuiteVeryJohn]

Oh wow, this is exactly the kind of video I was looking for. I'm looking to get into game production but have little money to put towards it so this has really made my day. Excited to get started!

[@MissLucretia123]

Simple game, step by step instructions. Easy enough for even me to understand. :D GREAT TUTORIAL!

[@JohnAmanar]

OMG Awesome creativity with such simplicity. Well done! :D

[@RANTCANT]

put batteries in your clock.

[@WastelandSeven]

If you ever develop this a funny mechanic would be to have the undertaker run out and grab the recently deceased and throw them into coffins and say something snarky like, "A busy day is a good day"

[@redabensaltana4075]

nice bro ,i like your videos .You took just 13min to explain and resolve many issues for bigginer programmers (with no money )

[@eekeek433]

Fix that dam clock!!!! :(

[@c.6727]

Something I'd like to see is a video that is a full on, in depth process of game development. I think your video touches on it, but I do think there's a lot of free real estate for the taking with longform videos. Great video anyway :-)

[@uuu12343]

Hi taira, thank you for the video! Oh I thought of an idea from this video How about a video series where you teach a coding language like say, c# using a topic as reference. It can be anything from games to just applications. For example, you can make a video series on teaching Javascript, each episode you take a game, say Tetris and in the video, you teach the ins and outs of the terms used when making Tetris using Javascript I'm short, a series where you teach a coding language based on different topics with explanation of the terms inside Please tell me what you think xD

[@Aereto]

I actually consider "$0 budget" as part of my mission statement once I play my hand to the game development. Since I built my desktop PC, I want to start from the ground up with $0 on hand for game investment, and use what I earn from games to invest. I consider the use of Unreal Engine, Blender, and some others to stay true to the $0-fund start scenario, while satisfying certain things that would make my OC-like senses flip if I overlook them such as having control over splash screens or opening cinematics. It would be better for me to start low-poly, since I am still learning in Blender. Other software would be GIMP (art/textures), Musescore (MIDI), and few still in consideration.

[@keithbrewer2482]

Great video, but the audio level was quite a bit lower than a lot of other videos on youtube, I had to turn my audio system up by about 20% to be able to hear you clearly.

[@TomDillon13]

I don't care what that clock says! This was filmed early in the morning because of your 'early morning coffee'! - Great video XD

[@user-yr7eb6yd5e]

Tomobiwan06 AVFC the clock is broken

[@da_cat]

That clock is fucking dead, that boy ain't movin

[@testedalexthegreat1759]

Da Cat LMFAO XD BEST COMMENT EVER CAUSE

[@SoloAdvocate]

It could be a relaxing evening tea.

[@amiteshwarsingh6099]

You can definetly make a game without zero dollars !! Everything is possible just keep on going !!

[@LightAmpLaserDesigns.]

100% PURE AWESOME! And we're not just talking about our channel!

[@Gryphonzwing]

notch got the creeper hiss by cooking bacon

[@burp2019]

another one of the sounds was his cat lol

[@jayden6090]

notch cooked me?

[@thebigtricky9156]

I did not really consider fonts being copyright, but making 26 chars is not a big deal anyway :), thx for the Info.

[@CodemasterJamal]

Very good tutorial. After watching this I am going to start making a very simple RPG game. Hopefully people will like it.

[@Vixikats]

For the new programmers out there, just learn C#. It's a lot stricter than JavaScript which some might see as unnecessarily difficult, but that only makes it more rigid, easier to program and to know what your code does when you look at it again in 6 months. C# is also a good stepping stone into C++, a language you will absolutely, 1000% need to be familiar with in the video game industry. It's a super powerful language that's been around almost 40 years and remains the ipso facto programming language of AAA game developers. It's the language you would be using if you were to program for something like UE4. All-in-all, in my opinion, the only thing JavaScript can give you is bad habits and when you get more advanced, you'll find yourself fighting with the language more and more to do something that's relatively straight forward in a lower-level language.

[@thaym.5822]

1. I suscribed because whe have almost the same name. 2. I suscribed because this was an amazing and informative but simple video, congrats!

[@newbiegaming6090]

Hey there. Loved your video and actually subscribed to your channel. I'd like to ask if you would be interested in making more tutorials about making a game with these tools? But instead of point and click, the character could move with WASD... Or you could make the tutorial just about this movement type too, not an entire game... Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for your time and keep up the great work.

[@japalekhin]

look for public domain font but check if it's OFL? if it's public domain you're free to use it however you like.

[@najirulislam3444]

good video mate but theres a delay in audio. maybe make it a ahead next time?

[@johnmendez4998]

Great Video Man! I’m a new subscriber but I’m really enjoying the content and information you provide! 👍🏼

[@jimhuf8102]

Ubisoft release AAA games in less than 3 hours then patch at their leisure

[@afkpavi]

lol

[@testedalexthegreat1759]

Jim Huf LMFAO THEY A RELEASE A CALL OF DUTY EVERYDAY

[@garfiled7565]

Alexander Moss ubisoft??

[@GhostRider-tf8xv]

Alexander Moss It takes 3 years to make a Call of Duty game

[@adamliphart8846]

so true Jim Huf. Thats how i feel about how they did ghost recon breakpoint

[@ShinzoSin]

Your shirt makes you look extremly proffesional aka nerdy as fuck xD

[@t-boneproductions6779]

Great tips. Some were what I was thinking.

[@yakine13]

can"t believe he made a game in 4h ... amazing

[@magnusm4]

SketchUp for very simple concept designs. You used MagicaVoxel cause you're not good at all at modeling but SketchUp is extremely simple but it's also so simple and easy that you can learn to use it in a day or even just an hour maybe. Blender for modeling and animating. Krita for artwork. OpenToonz for traditional animation. And Unity or Unreal for the game. And it's free

[@isabelvassalus9688]

I played your video without really paying much attention and went to another tab. Thought you were Hello Future Me for a bit. Your guys's voices sound very similar.

[@Pspisripoff]

You forgot Godot, its fairly new but when it comes to 2D it nails Unity to wall, and it will have optimised 3D update soon too

[@zenaldabbas5305]

good stuff bro, but your glasses can be changes HAHAHA ... love the work and big fan

[@NinuRenee]

I came to this video waiting for you talk about how you spent your time working on a game at a library computer.

[@jdib]

Woah woah woah.. Can I see all the sliders and settings on that blood effect? That couldn't be a more perfect particle for me.

[@XinoMbr]

thanks for the hints buddy

[@snowball8940]

I can make a popular game from $0 after like a year because after a while people get tired about games like CoD and what to play a bad game

[@HemlockHistoria]

I'm attempting to make a game similar to this but on Unreal 4. Everything on there is 100% free unlike Unity, which has Unity pro. Unreal does charge a 5% royalty on sales

[@HemlockHistoria]

So far I've managed to add the cowboy model into the game

[@ksrbrothers9454]

thank you for the help and mainly the motivation bro!

[@HalasterBlackmantle]

Don't scale models up or down with the transform settings, do it in the model import settings!

[@emmortalsniper4030]

The ''letts do this'' thing was so unprefenshinal

[@DerpyBuddies]

should use this $0 budget and extend the timeframe to a week to see what you can show us :D

[@kiweegames6662]

but you cant make a game on a 0 dollar budget. you cant buy a computer... with no money.... i think im high...

[@outrospector]

also you need internet to watch this video and to get into the links....

[@CobobS12]

You can find an older computer at some donation centers, or usually friends/family might be willing to give up old tech, I got my first computer for free, a 2004/5 HP Pavilion (in 2011/12) from my cousin, and I just recently got a 2009 MacBook for $30, from a friend of mine who was given the computer for free. You can walk to the nearest library, or if you're going to school, have access to the internet at the library there. (I'm a university student, and as such, free internet and library use, although I have to pay tuition.) All in all, it's not to farfetched to be able to truly make a game for 100% free.

[@datboi1861]

Dan Lapain hehe

[@latarsenameow2606]

Mobile.

[@stanosipenko7305]

Library with computers? That would be cool

[@ThatGamePerson]

@ 4:19 Except that JS is going away in Unity. Pretty sure this vid was filmed before that was announced though. Just wanted to give a heads up to new devs out there.

[@bluecorvidart]

It'd be nice if you showed the stuff in the game as you were talking about it.

[@richardbuchanan1702]

Does no one realize that's not actually coffee he's drinking? Peep the tiny Jack and Kraken bottles by the monitor.

[@lucibee1163]

I will try it

[@zorochii]

In 4 hours you made something better than Digital Homicide's entire repertoire.

[@SunteLs]

Great vid mate, I subbed

[@lemetamax]

Jimmy Vegas was right. This was a really great video. Thank you.

[@AlexVoxel]

Nice video, magicavoxel is great!

[@davidmcmonigle4737]

Just discovered you. Booya! Love it, man! Are you an Unreal or Unity type of guy?

[@sjoer]

If you are poor the software isn't the problem, the hardware is ;) My PC broke down two years ago, I resurrected it yesterday :(

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

I was working on it, really getting into it, but I've run into an issue. I'm hungry. I think the bank wants me to pay my mortgage too. I think this might end up being a little harder than I thought.

[@HeavyMix3]

These vids are really cool, you're fun and your advices are precious

[@odo324]

I like these type of videos.

[@justaguy7532]

Absolutley great video! Subbed. Are you from New Zealand by any chance? Your speech (and yourself a bit) reminds me of Jemaine Clement :D

[@TairaGames]

Certainly am :)

[@Hinternet]

That intro is so good

[@lukaskeil4117]

The Mic not being plugged in upsets me more than it should...

[@tendaizhou5311]

Thank you for sharing, Great vid

[@silvercart2885]

what camera are you shooting this with? Super clear video!

[@AriS-cl7pt]

The sound is off a little, good video.

[@PendelSteven]

'Ello! You seem to be lot like me! I also play 'keys' and guitars, have KRK speakers (VXT's though), have discolights... But I also am a C# programmer, love the language, agree that Unity games DO NOT SUCK and... I am a bachelor in IT. Although I'm not sure if you are the latter already :)

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

lol the game reminds me of the nintendo 64 game the lone ranger.

[@rrrrmrmr]

I saw the game at the beginning and was like, Woah!

[@BrianTChamberlin]

Thank you Taira, this is motivating, sub'd

[@WastelandSeven]

Very cool video. Subbed.

[@ghstr4btthegamer240]

nice vid man i learned a lot

[@no_name6584]

Intro getting worse....... that s why I subbed for.Nice!

[@XxjeffersonDkidxX]

Love it.more vids like this pls.

[@netsukhufuaruameketi4805]

Roger Dat. Audio recognition sounds like "V" for VENDETTA

[@johnhasstories776]

Alot of great info!

[@neurotoxik]

amazingly helpful! Thank you

[@isgodreal1337]

If you have a convincing project, and vision, can you go out for a kickstarter?

[@wouter11234]

What about just programming from scratch? You can make any kind of complex game (or shaders/renderers) you'd like for free

[@dolebiscuit]

Good video. Subbed!

[@mirage_vsl7300]

Congrates to 10.000 Abos !!! (greetings from Germany)

[@CommissarChaotic]

Even when I could, I couldn't. My loneliness prevents me from trying to make something you can only play alone....

[@HettyPatel]

Coding you own game is easier than you think... you know you should take this online udemy course

[@Nopa_Kofi]

wow that wind sound is same as i did it but i did it before u played that sound :)

[@atomichotdog4889]

This video is absolutely perfect for me

[@masterneme]

I'll add Krita for 2D stuff and LMMS for music.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍

[@danielblues222]

0:07 oh so thats what the dev patreon money is for

[@tedscott3635]

He never actually put the game link in :/

[@MoonKnight11]

Here's the Link tairagames.itch.io/cowboys-vs-ninjas

[@tedscott3635]

After a lot of looking I found it anyway, thanks though. :3

[@Hvuntokrul]

Great video, thanks!)

[@romansoldier38]

Any one else thinks he seems like a British bootleg version of Chris ray gun

[@TheFloatingSheep]

Did he just say, a plane? I hope he meant to say Quad.