My Week as an Indie Game Developer

[@Danidev]

0:13 "Oh hi, didn't see ya there" LOL

[@happyfone2974]

Dani lol

[@moreorlesspro4869]

Dani ahhahahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhaahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahhahah

[@mannyw_]

The balance that you’re maintaining while making progress with your game is simply astounding. Working a full-time job, having a social life, doing KZbin, and making consistent progress on your personal endeavors - this is what I aspire to be. Great content dude, keep it up!

[@DevDuck]

Thank you! That means a lot! Finding the balance can be tough at first, but once you hit your stride I think you'll have no problem finding time for everything you want to accomplish!

[@shumai5540]

these videos are what give me motivation to finish old left behind projects, they're also really nice to listen to while doing something very boring or repetitive

[@logansmith2703]

I love how a lot of the time when you're about to transition the bats make the crunch sound. That shit is satisfying.

[@SebastianGraves]

Currently working a 40 hour work week whilst developing my project. Maintaining balance is key for sure. Great video :^)

[@Juul1asGames]

so wholesome, so balanced :') this video made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside! i had a thought for the multiplier - maybe every 5 or 10 multipliers the colour of the light can change or something? I know when there's a subtle change like that in a game, i get so thrilled when i see a new colour that i haven't seen before (aka beat my score) - like an extra visual reward!

[@DevDuck]

Thanks so much! Love this idea! It's in trello now :D

[@GoldenWind]

Great video! Your time management is awesome😳

[@DevDuck]

Thank you! I try, it's taken some practice :P

[@rkpixeldesign]

watching guys like you i feel jealous.. cause i devoted my full time to make an indie game, but some days i don't even open the project and other days i feel really demotivated, my schedule is totally blown off and i think i totally have an unbalanced life.... man i really want to be productive and watching your vids really helping me keep making those..

[@harpoonatomato]

REPIX MEDIA When you really don’t feel motivated it’s often best to do something else for a while. A day, a week, a month. Whatever you need. Don’t force yourself to work on your project, it’s just going to make you feel worse for not being able to live up to your own goals. For me, it helps having several unrelated projects to work on and taking long walks in the forest to clear my mind. It’s totally normal to not work on the same thing all day every day. I hope you can find back to your motivation!

[@islandgames5206]

Nice to see that it's very importent to have a balanced life and not only a good game :D

[@ahdlkasdjfhalsdkj]

I enjoy a lot watching you in this kind of videos, helps me to organize and gives me motivation, greetings.

[@m.pravin4503]

Thanks for the video. I am working in a full time job Currently and learning unity . I am struggling to manage time to make some progress in unity.this gives me an idea how to manage my time for full time job, gamedev and get relaxed at the same time )

[@GMGuru]

Awesome video as always the 11 minutes flew by and awesome too see how you balance you life! Now a suggestion I have for your game is that when the player's score starts ramping up as well as the multiplier you should implement a system where the circles start to decrease in size to ramp up the exhilaration of the game. I think this would add a nice touch as it creates situations where the player becomes a bit stressed as they want to keep their multiplier high as well as maximise their score! Either way awesome work and I look forward to the next video :)

[@DevDuck]

Fantastic suggestion! Great way to prevent really huge scores. Made a note of it! Thanks for the kind words :)

[@GMGuru]

@@DevDuck No problem sir as someone who has just finished high school these videos are very inspirational on how to balance the hobby. I find myself spending so much time at my desk and that's why I go on dry runs when making my game. Going to start taking your approach! :)

[@Bigmikeystan]

Hey! In regards to the corruption bar, have a larger black outline around the full hp of the corruption. When you do damage, unlock the other bar shrinking, the outline bar does not.

[@abdoudjam6846]

Good job, i like the Unity ad idea !

[@DevDuck]

Thanks! :)

[@MichoSchmidt]

Looks great! Good video editing.

[@indieprogress7170]

Nice work!

[@markler2976]

I love Blink I just downloaded it and I’m now saying it’s my favourite game because it’s no like a game I can play for like sessions but it is fun I hope you will update it

[@popbuilds8138]

Another option is to slight increase the rate at which the players circle fills making them have to move faster. I think this would need a max rate through as it's something that cannot increase exponentially forever.

[@DevDuck]

Yeah! I actually have that on my backlog this week.

[@popbuilds8138]

@@DevDuck Oh also the pulsing effect on the pickup helps but I feel it would be easier to see if there was subtle blue glow. Just a suggestion though.

[@DevDuck]

I might try that - after testing on an older Android device, I’m trying to keep extra lighting effects to a minimum for the sake of performance.

[@popbuilds8138]

@@DevDuck oh yeah that would make sense

[@maxofcourse]

9:34 BROOOOOOOOOO........ what rank you at tho?

[@nikhilgopinath94]

Very motivating.

[@nenadbadjevic7228]

The game is looking really good 😄

[@DevDuck]

Thank you!

[@chickeninabox]

You made me wakeup late.

[@gab1861]

What's the brand of the chair you're using? It looks comfortable

[@berreh917]

What programming language are you writing your game(s) in within unity? C#?

[@shroomcraftgames]

Livin the life man

[@thehambone1454]

Oh hey another dev who also has a FT job!

[@Naiuhz]

What source control do you use?

[@Rewind888]

In the description it says "Gtx 2080" shouldnt it be RTX or 1080?

[@DevDuck]

GEEZ you’re right it’s the RTX. 🤦‍♂️

[@LeeTGame]

Good game. Same here. work on the game with a full time job. :) like your video editing as well.

[@p_mat]

What's your full-time job?

[@DevDuck]

software engineer!

[@p_mat]

@@DevDuck Yeah! I got that, I mean your profile. I'm a student so just curious..

[@pixeldevlog]

Good video

[@simoroshka]

When do you find the time to also make KZbin videos?..

[@hydra4962]

Who Is Kate?

[@sheepthehack]

Is this the only gameplay??? I really hope it isnt.. cus it looks less like a game and more like an EXAMPLE PROGRAM when learning to code... i dont mean to shit on ur project.. but it doesnt exactly scream adventurous... unless its FREE in which case cool.. but i have a feeling its not going to be..

[@DevDuck]

It's going to be a free casual mobile game. And I am indeed making it as a way to teach myself Unity development.

[@sheepthehack]

@@DevDuck FREE? or.. FREE TO PLAY?? very different animals.. one is honorable the other is easily manipulated to make players pay far too much money, usually more than the game is usually worth in the first place. EDIT: actually in the video you already say that u are made to watch videos.. so i can see where thats going.. if u can get away with it.. more power to ya.!!

[@karifurai8479]

You only watch the ads if you want to continue the round--it's not mandatory