What I Learned After 10 YEARS of Game Dev

[@thomasbrush]

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[@erografos5326]

1:00 Failure is your best friend 2:19 Build your audience early 5:38 Use modular assets 7:18 People dont care about your game more than you do 9:20 Marketing is king / start early / do it right

[@SteamPunkVGC]

To the people who are going to make first game, just make it bad just like Thomas said. I literally built the worst quiz game on itch io, but I learned so many stuff.

[@jared4080]

Its kinda like hollow knight or celeste or pretty much any game

[@GrahamOfLegend]

Congrats on 10 years Thomas! And I 100% agree on these tips. Game dev is a journey, not a sprint, and there are SO MANY moving parts. 🍻

[@sankalpshrivastav8025]

Marketing before starting a game is correct, only if you have some exposure making small projects and an idea, because if you don't have the former, you will waste time learning the basics, and if you don't have an idea, you won't know who to target.

[@S-e-n-p-a-i]

I honestly believe that i have a game idea that could not only become legendary big but it probably could change or add something completely new to the entire video games industry, but as a solo developer I really don’t know where to start or how to do it.

[@wrench2022]

Sheesh What kinda game could possibly be made that'd do such a thing?

[@LukeWilliams91]

Subscribe to Full Time Game Dev. Start there.

[@Jeansou21]

I'm curious! Let's talk. I have a big idea too.

[@creative-obsession]

Great video yet again! Busy saving up so I can afford your course 🤘can't wait to join!

[@un852]

8:45 gameplay and sound are the two places to obsess about. and visuals simply need to serve the gameplay and the sound. if i was running a studio i would probably cover the wall with wallpaper that says: gameplay & sound gameplay & sound gameplay & sound over and over again. excellent sound can turn a mediocre game into a great game.

[@FranMey]

Thank you for giving access for me and putting my brains back together :) i didnt even knew about spotlight effect. Thank you Thomas.

[@puddle.studios]

I agree marketing is very important. but to make a game to market will destroy the artistic integrity of the game. you also talked about this with once upon a coma or neversong where you said you were actually looking to please publishers and were changing the game to do that. it might not have been neversong maybe it was the 3d game you were making before father.

[@Patrick_Bard]

I agree, and I get it that for a lot of people thinking of marketing first will be a necessity to sell the game. But I like the approach from Jonathan Blow about it, saying that you shouldn't care early about marketing to avoid changing the game art just to satisfy consumers and publishers. It's better to focus the marketing only once the game is pretty defined... it doesn't have to be finished, but no so premature that you change the essence of your idea not because you found something else interesting, but only because someone didn't liked.

[@NaudVanDalen]

People are like: A $150 course that takes a few weeks or months to complete? Nah. A random unusable $50,000 college degree that takes 4 years to get? Hell yeah!

[@Donvermo]

If there is anything I have learned after 20 YEARS of Game Dev is that Thomas Brush knows how to plan and market games. His Game Dev course is also an incredible value if you are looking for an all in one condensed package to launch yourself full-time.

[@theasjplayzkevin3359]

You can do a video how to make 2d game way better than usual cause I was searching that for eternity and I could not find any video like the one I just told

[@hellhunter9478]

Thank You for the video to ne honest i am a bit concerned to ușe the art that i created based on the 2d course because IT might be the same as other people but i tought a bit and i can reuse some elements or even use the same but add a bit of extra flavour. Thank You so for inspiring me for some time and continiuning to inspire me. Hopefully one day i will make a game and manage to release IT :)

[@psydunk]

Thank you Thomas! Much appreciated.

[@MonhooGameDevlogs]

Thanks for sharing this amazing tips to like me for trying to make first indie game

[@AwkwardSpecimens]

Words to absolutely live by: Marketing is king.

[@B_Carr007i]

Great words Thomas!

[@ericcrevling3759]

What I have learned from starting and running businesses is failure IS and option. It’s nice to say failure isn’t an option and ultimately no one wants to fail and you should PLAN to fail. But you should have a if I fail plan. Example would be if I fail I will learn from why and how and reflect and then move on and do better and eventually you will have failed and paid all the stupid tax and boom you’ll be good to go.

[@Datadryft]

Thank you soon much this gave so much guidance

[@_amrbadr_]

jesus back at it again with the game dev tips

[@Amiro05]

Man i love your hair 😂

[@galalviat]

Your hair looks like one of the elves' from LOTR.

[@markstafki9597]

Love your hair

[@basicallyeverything6154]

Your hair looks amazing

[@thorndev115]

Great Video!!

[@Soulis98]

Does anybody knows if his courses are good for beginners?

[@dragonballz3686]

Sir, I am making a 2d top down space shooter. There is a problem in shooting system, that is , when enemy is shooting and I shoot, then the player's bullet is colliding with enemy bullet and the player's bullet is destroyed but the enemies bullet is not destroyed. Can you tell me what to do to make the both bullets passing away without any collision.

[@finsrudgames2231]

Set colliders to be trigger. And in the OnTriggeEnter part of your code, specify that the bullets only get destroyed when they collide with certain objects. Specify with tag, or name of object.

[@dragonballz3686]

@@finsrudgames2231 yeah I am gonna try, thanks man

[@finsrudgames2231]

@@dragonballz3686 How did it go?

[@dragonballz3686]

@@finsrudgames2231 yeah It really really helped to solve. And I made it. Thank you so much bro

[@finsrudgames2231]

@@dragonballz3686 Great!

[@davidhuns7545]

9:15 you can prob do this better if you take a week off and play the newest build of your game for fresh eyes…

[@at2dgames]

Can this be used with GODOT?

[@KnowledgeNook768]

I like games….😱

[@philippe6918]

Just got another ad from david wehle bruh

[@achirameegasthanne2798]

how much your income

[@nikomu7256]

Make Dead space but 2d game

[@D4nte55]

There is so many videos like this and everyone says same stuff, it is boring already

[@shojauddin2509]

maybe start nfts

[@allldin]

I love your channel, but your videos have more of a preaching vibe, rather than teaching / advising. Still loving them tho :)

[@spectrablaze3760]

Rice

[@natyman4084]

The first viwer 😎 Thomas

[@theasjplayzkevin3359]

Hey I’m the first view