The ULTIMATE Guide for Game Developers - Make Games LIKE THIS!

[@ReeceGeofroy]

What advice would you give to starting indie developers?? (leave some awesome answers below)

[@ggccvvck]

Manage your time, have a schedule and give yourself some time to relax.

[@micyoz5283]

Finishing something all the way goes a long way in terms of progress

[@tenpavouk2483]

I think just focus on small milestones, and avoid scope creep at all costs D= Think small and after you have achieve that small goal, then start adding up.

[@B8Code]

START small , Always

[@tauheedgamedev2388]

Stay consistent and never stop learning

[@PolyMars]

thanks for the tips, now I can start making games!

[@cubgee]

Lol

[@subhomoysaha3731]

U know already how to make a game xD

[@RakanGF]

@@subhomoysaha3731 He meant a real game Edit: Some people will think I’m bullying but it’s a joke

[@ZiRR0]

lmfao

[@Dorbellprod]

Yeah! I seriously still don't know why exactly I'm subscribed to you...

[@breffish]

i really like your emphasis on art style - especially in an oversaturated gaming market, your game art is what catches people’s attention before anything else! thanks for the video, gave me a lot to think about!

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Glad you enjoyed it! Keep progressing 😊

[@williamwester223]

Thank you Reece as someone who wants to become a independent game developer this video was so helpful

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Glad you found some use out of our advice! :)

[@wawiator]

Thank you so muck Reece Geofroy! after watching your channel a year or two ago I was inspired to start learning how to make games with pixel art and have been slowly honing my skills using game development. Just a week ago I started to learn how to program with unity and am learning how to make Metroidvanias. You have been an inspiration to me, and I just want you to know how grateful I am for you and your channel being a big inspiration along the way, Thank you again!

[@CreativeSteve69]

Thanks for making this Reece. I have a small-medium-sized project I wanna build. I will definitely keep these tips in mind as I'm making it. Once I learn the basics of the unreal engine of course. :)

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Good luck Stevie!! Wish you nothing but success 🙂

[@fosterturtle]

Thanks for the tips Reece! Always impressed with the content you put out, and grateful for the advice you share! - Foster

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Thank you Foster 😁😁

[@thefaultypixel581]

this is the exact video ive been looking for, for around 2 months now you are my absolute savior Reece THANK YOU

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!! God luck!

[@bitbraindev]

You inspire me to become a full-time game developer myself. I am quite afraid of the thought but it also fills me with excitement. I cannot wait to see what the future holds.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Good look brain! No rush 😉

[@cloudythb]

Good video! Found the tips really helpful, especially the one Steven gave

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Glad you found the advice helpful!!

[@daaaaaaanny]

I've used Game Maker for a little over 7 years just messing around making platformer games and testing around with stuff. I'm pretty much fluent in GML but my biggest issue is whenever I try to make an actual game, it turns into a mess of a billion scripts and variables and objects. So I installed Godot today to see if what people say about it lives up to the hype. And I have to say I immediately fell in love with it, I don't know a single thing about programming languages outside of GML so I have a long way to go before I actually make anything competent in it yet, but I managed to make a simple 3d platformer within my first day(which is miles more than what you can do with 3D in game maker just at all). But it made me realise that a different programming language isn't as big of a bottleneck as it first seems. All programming languages do the same stuff, it's just glorified problem solving, just worded a little differently. Basically what I'm trying to say is, even if you're comfortable using a game engine and it's the one you've used for ages, try switching game engines and experiment, because you'll never know what features you've been needing in your life that you haven't had access to unless you look around

[@Gbtx6]

I agree with pretty much everything you've said except the million scripts part. That's no longer the case since user defined functions were added in and scripts were changed drastically to prevent the script piling up madness.

[@daaaaaaanny]

@@Gbtx6 yeah that's definitely helped it an insane amount, but it's more my own messy method of doing things added with the way game maker is which caused it to turn into a complete mess for me. Even with my chaotic, nonsensical ways of doing stuff Godot is a lot better at staying clean

[@Gbtx6]

@@daaaaaaanny yeah, I've used Godot and there are far too many things I love more than Gamemaker. I just love how fast you can whip out stuff in GM.

[@daaaaaaanny]

@@Gbtx6 yeah game maker is really good for quick and easy projects but if you wanna go bigger it becomes a lot of work

[@dreamy97836]

Have you ever played Azure Dreams on PS1? Everytime I see your monster game I think of that game, if you haven't I recommend checking it out, it's a turn-based roguelike monster trainer where you climb a tower of randomly-generated floors, and defeat means getting thrown back to the bottom. Outside the tower you can raise and train companion monsters, and indulge in some limited life sim stuff.

[@tauheedgamedev2388]

Great advise in the video, I personally started with unity but recently started learning Godot and I think it doesn't matter too much what engine you start with as a lot of the logic side of making games is the hardest part and learning to use a game engine or a programming language is a lot easier and will get even easier over time.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Oh totally agree with you, good luck and keep going!

[@evanshively1294]

I would say unreal engine is a good one for those that know they can learn quickly. Like you said, UE has a ton of incredible features and you can do basically anything with it, but the real pro is the community. There are countless tutorials for UE that provide the basis anybody needs to start developing. Certain new features in UE5 also make it easier for a new developer to make a more professional looking game(I.e. Lumen) but like you said, it doesn't really matter anyway. Just pick one and stick with it for a while

[@EggOfQuail]

Love the videos. Your tone reminds me of Nathan Felder and I can't get it out of my head though hahaha

[@Skeffles]

Great video Reece! Some brilliant tips and very inspiring.

[@NotMakeru]

You are the reason I got into pixel art so thank you

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Oh man, this makes me so happy to hear!

[@pudimlaranja4118]

Idk why but this video made me feel so much better thank u

[@B8Code]

Awesome Editing...

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Thanks!

[@mythrilage5053]

Ahh yeah! Another video.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Let's goooo!

[@demonofalltrades4860]

Great video! Thank you😃

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Hope you find the tips helpful!

[@lucid9242]

High quality video, keep up the hard work.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Thanks, will do!

[@Helthurian]

Good vid. I personally started with UE4 since I wanted to visual script due to raw code being confusing to me. It's been fairly easy to learn and thankfully visual scripting is battle tested in UE4.

[@phorchybug3286]

I learned to program games in LBP3. Looked up [how to make Mega Man] The logic tools are basically visual scripting.

[@jogalatore7003]

Can you do a video showing some of your code and overall game window of one of your projects in gms as the hardest thing for me is keeping gms organized and I have no idea how to keep track of things once u get 20+ scripts objects and sprites

[@B8Code]

Great Video Reece

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Thanks Xtopy!

[@onlyhyx2898]

Nice dude, make more like that. Saw you on twitch to, go stream when you are drawing.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Hey Hyx! I stream on KZbin atleast once a week so make sure and look out for them if you want to watch the lives 😁

[@PilferpupCartoons]

SO! TRUE!

[@micyoz5283]

LETS GO!

[@ReeceGeofroy]

HYPE!

[@matthewexline6589]

Which game is that, the one that you show at 15 seconds into the video? The FPS pixelart style game?

[@D3FA1T1]

that discord call chaught me off guard

[@neptun3189]

"game development from a fun, stress free hobby" my mind was like yep, there goes the free part of that haha

[@DarkArtAnimations]

For me I like pixel art and top down style games and the type of games I wanna make are games like old history type of style like assassins creed basically just I wanna do that style as pixel art top-down or whatever

[@bodybody5609]

On my way to fail and grow thx for the tips

[@StarLightGem]

0:00 oh look it's you and Polymars getting Married

[@PolyMars]

🥰🥰🥰

[@ReeceGeofroy]

🤜🤛

[@matteomoro119]

Thanks for the advice.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Hope it helps your gamedev journey!

[@MythicBeanProductions]

I'm really getting into pixel art and I want to put out an impactful story in the form of a game. I want to make games for a living and create my own worlds for other people to enjoy. I just can't seem to find anything that will teach me scripting in a way that doesn't act as if I'm supposed to already know how to script. I want to use unity but I cant figure out where to start with learning C#

[@Louis-de1wv]

This seems like a high quality KZbin channel.

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Haha thanks! Appreciate it

[@raymondreddington6521]

Speaking of small project, how small or big does it to be to use godot?

[@Iigua]

Boi, UI is hell no matter the engine you use

[@Pekkas_Pancakes]

CALLED IT!

[@trunkostudios9500]

Got the starting part, need the finishing part 😂

[@ReeceGeofroy]

hahaha that is actually a great idea for a future upload!

[@lonelyfloat2582]

I would say that "living hell for 2 years" is a MASSIVE exaggeration for going engineless. Game frameworks are getting more and more easy to use. If you are using a higher-level framework, like raylib or XNA, it won't take long for a simple game to be created. If you use a super low-level API or framework, like OpenGL, and you're starting, yes, I agree. But different frameworks give varying levels of control.

[@AAA-wq4sm]

What if you make your own framework?

[@lonelyfloat2582]

@@AAA-wq4sm You mean building off of an API e.g. OpenGL? Nobody makes a framework completely from scratch, as it's absurdly impractical. Even if you enjoy super low-level issues, the lowest you'd want to go is the Vulcan API.

[@biggbottx1]

Thanks!

[@Mattarii]

Damn nice transitions

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Thanks Mattari, I've been trying to get better :)

[@Lord_Volkner]

"almost half a decade ago." I find that so funny, maybe because I'm old. As he was saying it, In my mind I thinking, 'I made games like that almost half a century ago,' then he says "decade" and I think, 'so like yesterday' and it made me laugh. And with a laugh is always a good way to start a video.

[@tomotale5085]

are you Immortal or something? a century is 100 years???

[@Lord_Volkner]

@@tomotale5085 I said *_"almost half_* a century ago." Half a century is 50 years. I started programming in about 1980 with BASIC and Pascal, then moved to C a few years later. I'd say that 40(ish) years ago counts as almost half a century ago.

[@PeterMilko]

cool

[@ReeceGeofroy]

lol thanks Pete

[@slammurai6492]

My problem is motivation and focus to keep at it ☠

[@creucreusator56]

just thank you :D

[@ReeceGeofroy]

You are very welcome!

[@superdavisdon3791]

Nice!

[@H1D3_15]

what platform do you stream

[@ReeceGeofroy]

I stream on KZbin 🙂

[@tpxalpha]

new video now i can sleep in peace

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Yes sir

[@ugxgaming6541]

I went straight to UE :D

[@bloxiancoder]

Hey Reece, what game engine do you use for pixel art, pls help cause I can’t find any

[@ReeceGeofroy]

I use Aseprite! 💪

[@bloxiancoder]

@@ReeceGeofroy Do you know of any that are free, but thx and keep up the great work!

[@itsME-dc4vm]

nice thanks ;D

[@CosmicDuskWolf]

I hate Twitter. It is incredibly toxic and just makes me angry when I go on it. Though Chris Metson is on there. I want to make a tbsrpg like Shining Force and Shining Force 2. Also a dungeon crawler like Fatal Labyrinth.

[@Casta2]

I would have tried making a game if my pc could even just run a game engine, but eh it don't do that

[@ADarnSmore]

godot can run on anything, you can literally run it on a phone.

[@charlesharrison8306]

001 game creator

[@KINGMASKYT]

I needed this video, to do everything you do but other way. I want to susccede, not become prefesional pixel artist.

[@chickenboi6453]

ora

[@Crazy_Caleb]

First Comment! (And possibly first view, that part it harder to tell)

[@purpledrakon1307]

Dammit

[@Crazy_Caleb]

@@purpledrakon1307 lol

[@spaceman6753]

I will tell you even better tips on my channel

[@isto_inc]

TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE

[@ReeceGeofroy]

YES SIIIRRR!!!

[@agustinberthet3073]

'i made a lot of mistakes...' yeah you missed the 'e' in 'developing' -> 'devloping'

[@BanditBrawler]

YOOOO 19th COMMENT

[@BanditBrawler]

YOOOO FIRST REPLY

[@ggccvvck]

13th :p

[@rewrose2838]

1. Art first, game dev later 2. shelf all your ideas that need you to learn anything new, only work with what you know 3. use gamemaker or Godot and start small for a year or two

[@centigames]

Great Video, very motivating. The only thing to criticize is that you didn't mention Godot being completely free and open source, unlike the other engines. Otherwise good advice though!

[@ReeceGeofroy]

Ahh that's true! Should have included prices in there :[ my mistake