Why (AND HOW) You Should Make Games ALONE In 2025 (Day 1 Webinar)

[@joc_a.b]

Thanks for shouting-out my game! That was a lovely surprise. And what a great webinar! Can't wait for tomorrow!

[@trvkv]

This graph in 39:20 tells me that with enough clarity you can bend the time, hell yeah :D

[@kamilslaby_]

I laugh a bit too much on this comment, lol

[@taskinen1j]

This was an excellent webinar. One of the best so far.

[@sanatdeveloper]

As a small game dev studio owner, Im fully agree. Also I found out that when I worked solo on project, everything was in full control.

[@Xerophun]

Love this, great work. I've always been scoffed at when I say "Start Small, Stay Small" to those starting a business. Small boats don't need to go far from shore to weather a storm.

[@Somatisandro]

as a marketing strategist, the "prototypical" model and the "balloon" model are really valid, yes they are classic models in marketing, in fact, they are the more logical path considering the risk of making games without the advertising infraestruture to guarantee a good revenue just from the get-go. It's refreshing seeing someone that recommends doing the good practices and doesn't try to sell that you are going to do the next stardew valley.

[@akashjaiswar9437]

I have started working on my game and 2 weeks later you drop this! I couldn't join live! I watched it later and it helps me a lot. Thank you so much

[@JoeSchmo-z6l]

Super good video. I'm not super young but have software development experince. I drew a character in highschool 30 years ago that I want to make into a game. I pretty much only care about roguelikes and roguelites. I started thinking about the concept so I liked your advice on why it's important to define your game early on. I am starting to learn Godot. Keep up the good videos. I want to signup for the Black Friday deal but I want to prove to myself I can sit down and learn Godot first.

[@WillCalwell]

I'm 43 and only just starting to make a game. I wish I had started decades ago.

[@JoeSchmo-z6l]

@@WillCalwell No regret. Life doesn't work on a schedule. i'm almost 52. Just trying to have fun and be creative. That's how I approach it. And it's fun to keep learning

[@codypawelski8022]

I am so glad i got to hear you talk about the "What actually is this game". I have been stuck on that for a while now

[@DarthMerlin]

Thomas, I've been meaning to ask, why are all your books on the shelf backwards?

[@SandorClegane-TheHound]

In always late to these Must be our timezones clash I rarely catch you live

[@r0sal3sr]

20:47 You show the commonly attributed causes for economic bubbles. The interest rate of debt causing people to actually look hard at their outlays is a big deal. I suggest you look into the Austrian business cycle theory if you haven't already. They take a crack at how an environment is created for whole industries and economies becoming unhinged in a coordinated matter.

[@timmygilbert4102]

Brush is an artist, how convenient 😂 ❤

[@troybrown4117]

Thomas, I have 98 hand drawn, enemy’s, caricatures, monsters, beasts, etc that are in a stake of paper on my table and every day I add a new one but I have no experience with code or how to make a game in any way. I have wrote a short Story explaining My games lore and how the caricature you play as came to bee. I know I made it harder for my Self Because I’m starting out on paper, but all I know is I can draw monsters on paper with just pencil, some pens, and markers. It makes it Even harder that I’m dyslexic so math is har, Writing is hard, and reading is hard. That should I do.

[@Bryanox7]

make a game design document learn unity for a year

[@soul_ayu]

thanks for this video dev from India!

[@simspawn]

Looking forward to this.

[@bioburden]

Great webinar. You gonna stick with Unity when going solo?

[@dakotah4866]

Salary no wages yes. The fact that people believe in taxes in the state is embarrassing.

[@DavidAdams-n7b]

Thanks for the forecast! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@Ilcorvo.games1]

I hope one day I'll be able to go full time as well.

[@eric_bds]

When is twisted tower coming out?

[@exclarion]

The "Human" Factor will prevail in game dev to be sure! do not be fooled! Awesome talk Thomas. Appreciate your insight.

[@OnyeNacho]

Far as the GAI era, you couldn't be anymore wrong... No gamer cares about whether the game is AIG'd or not. They care whether that game is good and fun to play. There are already AIG'd games that proved you wrong this year alone, currently in the libraries of MANY gamers. I also find it VERY ironic that you would use Gen Z as an example of those wary of GAI content. Yes they have a keen sense and eye for GAI, but they are actually FAR more enthusiastic and optimistic about the technology than many of us old blood Gen Y, who are crying and having tantrums about it all the way to their demise, or in the case of a few (like apparently you), would instead enter a state of denial and pretend that "'human' art will always prevail no matter what!" Like some pseudo-motivational speech trope in a Disney film or anime TV show. You cannot predict the future. GAI is a dual-edge sword. They can be abused for asset flips (which mind you has been human-generated for over a decade now!), yet at the same time, they can be used to make fantastic, epic and memorable games that can span multiple generations. This latest evolution of Artificial General Intelligence is only but a few years old; Generative AI (GAI) is half a decade old; Neural AI (NAI) is decades old (likely oldest of all the other AI categories) and only just matured and refined enough to be useful. Vocoding AI (VAI) is nearly as old as NAI and it has tremendously improved since the late 2010s, and finally refined this decade). Algorithmic AI (AAI) is decades old and has not improved much compared to the other AGI. Even 3D Rendering AI - the newest of the GAI abilities has finally matured this year alone! I can finally make decent meshes and then use them as templates and modify them to my hearts content to make my own original characters out of them! You are right about one thing: next year is THE BEST year for the solo dev. In fact this entire decade is THE BEST decade of the solo dev. Never have I felt so free and liberated in my life since the miserably 2010s where I made the mistake of working with toxic teams and my life nearly being destroyed by a woman with more MeToo-style lies and lives sabotaged or destroyed than her current age (She is probably in her mid 20s by now), and GAI just spared me the trouble of dealing with such toxicity and another series of set-backs again. For better and worse, AI tech will rein supreme, like it or not - and with all of the embarrassment this industry of 'humans' still offers, it is a VERY welcome necessary change.

[@Hersatz]

Business su*cid* is jumping into team-based production (regardless of the business' structure) without doing an extensive research on company funding, project management, and people management. No amount of good will can undo a severe lack of ignorance-based business mismanagement.

[@l.a.w.6494]

If we aren't using assets should they shut down asset stores?

[@kwcnasa]

Resume @1:01:00

[@wolfmantattoosjl8631]

My video game is for my son.

[@daesong1378]

I do everything alone

[@Saiper1990]

[@mosmo618]

Im sorry 300k on a game its good money

[@Urotsuki]

sans

[@Bowlman84]

15min in and all you talk is about money. Im not making games cause of money. Your webinar sounds cool, but I just cant listen money, money money. Good luck with your thing.

[@rawformulagames]

I think the answer to why, is money. the how may have more interestin things in.

[@r0sal3sr]

That's awesome you can do this work without worrying about how to pay rent and buy groceries. I hope we all get there one day.

[@JoeSchmo-z6l]

I don't take it that way. It's about not pissing away money, passion, effort, etc.. and working smart.

[@Bowlman84]

Sorry if I came a bit harsh there. Its just that Im so passion about creating and making something out of nothing. And I really dont like how money dictate things. Thats why I feel so strong when creative things happens money first.

[@r0sal3sr]

@@Bowlman84 I don't think you came off as harsh. Doing things purely for yourself like that can be great. But most of us are dependent on providing something to trade with other people. Many times "money" talk can seem dirty, but at its most basic, that is talking about how to provide something needed and worthwhile to someone else; something valueable enough that someone is willing to spend their valuable time to support you making it, by buying it :)