6 Years of Learning Game Development 

Just bought it I will not be able to start it for a while but I am expecting great stuff keep up the good work❤❤🔥

@@cripy7239 Thank you :D I hope you'll enjoy it once you get to it!

Did you ever find employment in the field?

Me too. I owe that video a lot 😅

​@KEKW-lc4xi idk about the main comment but I did!

​@@jeremyjohnson9609 Great to hear that! For someone like me, who is putting his baby steps into the game development, I would really like to have your advice on making the showreel/projects that will land me to get a job in a company.

Thanks for the encouragement. It's definitely challenging, but I'm doing it one step at a time only drawing 10~20 minutes every day to not overwhelm myself and stay consistent :)

Awesome :D Glad to see I'm not the only one who loved that game!

Thank you :D

Thank you :) Yeah... it can definitely be rough out there and a lot of the other students in my class ended up going into general IT or ended up doing something completely different. I think what really helped were the internships and having been able to already work part time as a game dev through friends while I was still at school. Also I think for game design it's probably even harder than for game programming because it's a less concrete skill set :(

Haha, Yeah I think there's a lot more opportunities here than in most other places. Glad to hear the courses helped you out :D

Thanks! That is a big dream of mine... but it's not realistic for the time being. If I'll do it, it has to be amazing and there's many hurdles to overcome. Currently mostly focusing on Top Down 2D stuff for the upcoming courses.

Hey! Yeah I feel you! I was also torn back and forth between Web Development and Game Development and doing both at the same time for many years. Even though I did go to school for game dev (because all of the affordable Web Dev schools sucked in Tokyo and I wanted to have some fun), it still felt like the 'adult' thing to stick with web dev as a career. I somehow did end up at a company that uses web technology, but still does things related to games, which was the perfect middleground. So maybe looking for something along those lines which keeps both options open for you might be the best thing. Working at a game company in most cases is a thankless job and you'll make much less money than in other software fields.... so for me the only way to go all in on game dev was to slowly build up a RU-vid channel and courses to turn into a full time income and then make the switch... which I was able to do only very recently.

Thank you :) Yeah, it was a rough time, but totally worth it! Had to make up for all the years I lost to working at a factory job I hated, not knowing I could actually escape that.

Thank you :D

@CobraCode happy to see you ended up getting it running on the quest 💪, if there's a way you guys could add multilayer that'd be sick

That sounds pretty rough. Not sure what specifically is the issue in your case, but trying something else and looking at things from a different angle often helps. I got stuck with Japanese for a long time... sounds weird, but taking a break and learning chinese for 2 years instead helped me break through that since those languages are related, but use Kanji/Hanzi in a different way. Maybe learning a game engine that helps you visualize things or going in the other direction and doing something low level like C or assembly might help you see things from a different perspective. Also instead of doing courses you could try books or interactive coding sites instead.

Hey, I designed the course sot hat absolute beginners should be able to complete it and there is an Unreal Engine Crash Course section included. Having some experience will of course make things go smoother, but I've had many students who finished the course saying it was their first time ever making games!

Hey! If you want to actually write code and don't have any experience yet getting into C++ with Unreal Engine is extremely rough and I wouldn't recommend it. If you want to use Visual Scripting however Unreal Engine is amazing and gives you tools no other engines have. Visual scripting will still teach you 'programming' and the way of thinking necessary for writing code, however it won't teach you the syntax. If writing code is your priority then C# and the way Unity handles it is much more accessible as a starting point.

@@CobraCode Thank you! I just feel like if I don’t get far in the gaming industry, coding is a strong skill to have.

I think it's the same reason you see 5 star chefs coming home and just eating mac and cheese. After having done Unreal for 8 hours a day already it's much less exciting to get home to your own project, since it feels like just more of the same. Something that helped me was get up very early and work on my own projects for a few hours before starting work, so I spend the time I'm most motivated at on my own stuff.

Hey! Sorry, but I'd rather not say since I now work at that school and don't want to put that info out there publicly or some people might just show up there cause they watch my content. Everybody I talked to says HAL is absolutely horrible for game dev and you should probably reconsider. Tokyo Game Show is coming up next month and there's a whole area dedicated to game schools. You should go there and talk to the students and teachers to see what would be a good match for you! I'd say there's a big divide between schools focusing on Game Engines like Unity and Unreal and other schools that do more low level stuff like working directly with Direct X libraries and things like that.

​​@@CobraCode Somehow I wasn't properly notified of this response. Thank you, though! Also, I understand having to protect certain info like this. I actually apologize for asking that question. I just realized it shouldn't be something I can just ask around the internet where everyone can see it. I'm actually intrigued by your comment regarding HAL. I knew they seemed too overrated. But what got me into them was the employment rate. But of course, I'm not sure about the accuracy of the stats they put out there. I plan on getting into a vocational school next year and hopefully get at least a 2 year degree. I'm only a high school graduate and one of my motive for going to school is to simply not be just a high school graduate anymore. But I'm really into computer and games (or multimedia arts) and I want to pursue a career in that area. That's why I looked into HAL. I will try to look for other schools. Thanks for your advice!

​@@sayzer05 No problem! Those employment rates are just a flashy number and can't be trusted at all. Every school decides arbitrarily what counts and doesn't count towards that. Most schools will count a 'game programmer' as a success even if they failed to get a job in the game industry and end up in general IT as a temp... which sadly the majority of people do. I think from our class only ~20% of the programmer actually ended up getting into the games industry. The real truth is a school really isn't gonna do all that much for you... it's all on you and they can only guide you in a general direction, put you into situations where you make connections with other students and bring you into contact with some potential employers. You'll need that degree for the visa though and that's the reason I went xD Good luck :D

Hey, sorry to hear my courses can't be accessed from Iran :( Thanks for letting me know! They definitely are NOT affiliated with me whatsoever and stole the course. The only place my courses are officially available at right now is Udemy. Of course I would prefer people to not buy stolen courses and I will need to take action to try to take the course down with help from Udemy, but I'm also at fault for not being able to provide it to certain regions of the world at this point. So I'm not gonna say that it's wrong for you to get it from there if you really have no other options. Since you're able to use RU-vid, I guess you should also be able to access Udemy through a VPN? Or is the payment method the issue? Could you please tell me about the site? RU-vid probably doesn't allow you to post links, so sorry for the trouble, but it would be awesome if you could send it to me on discord or via the email attached to my RU-vid channel.

The thing about Iran is here there's no copy right , no privacy , and we don't have international credit card and payment method and it's really bad​@@CobraCode

I can't pay Money

I have never used Discord. And I just created an account And now I am a member of your channel, in which section should I send the link?​@@CobraCode

Not directly, but I was watching Cobra Kai around the time I came up with the name. So maybe it had a subconscious influence on me ;)

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@@CobraCode tnx

How’s that been going for you? I’m currently developing on roblox studio as well

Hey! Just make sure to look out for these things: - They have group projects with students of the other disciplines (Artists, Planners and Programmers together). This will teach you much more than just working together with students of the same discipline. - They don't concentrate on standardized testing (For programming many schools will force you to do the 情報処理検定 and you'll loose 1 year just on that and not learn any REAL game dev) - If you're a programmer ask them if they concentrate on high level or low level stuff. Some schools will only do Unity and Unreal while others will do low level stuff with Direct X libraries. IMO if you're looking to get a job, having really strong C++ fundamentals will make it much easier than being good with a game engine. Ideally though you should be able to do both - Many schools also don't really 'get' game dev and just teach it as an extension of web dev and general IT. If you're really passionate about it, looking for a school that specializes on game dev/anime is probably gonna be more exciting and not as dry - HAL in Shinjuku seems to have a good rep looking at it from the outside, but every person I talked to said to avoid it like the plague Also whatever number they claim for people being able to get a job after graduation are probably fake. There's so many small text exceptions to that, like exchange students giving up and going back home not counting and them also counting general IT jobs. Only a very small percentage of Game Dev School graduates actually make it and really end up in the game industry after.

Awesome, it's really nice here :)

Only the term "HD-2D" is trademarked and can't be used by anybody else. The Art style however isn't and everybody can take inspiration from it.

Best to just download it and try. If it runs slow, go into project settings and set global illumination to NONE and reflections to Screen Space. Also under scalability settings you can go to the Low or Medium settings.

@@CobraCode OKAY I'll thank you Bro

Do you really care to know? He presumably graduated but still had to make his own company because no preexisting company would hire him, presumably.

@@KEKW-lc4xi I care to know lol? Why is that a bad comment?

Not really that long. I only completed The webdev bootcamp course by Colt Steele on Udemy and made 1 website. Wasn't really taking it seriously at the time and it was just a hobby, but still ended up being very helpful for getting into gamedev.

Hey, the main focus of this channel will always be Unreal. But I definitely do want to give Godot a try, just to broaden my horizons and learn new things and will probably make a video about my experience. That is still at least 1 year or so in the future though since I have other priorities right now mostly revolving around Top Down 2D.

@@CobraCode Thanks for the reply. You seem to really like to challenge yourself. Keep up the great effort 👌

Hey! It's awesome you're getting into gamedev this early and I definitely do want to support that! But giving out the course for free without a good reason would set a bad precedent. It would make people that actually paid for the course and supported me to be able to create this content feel cheated. Sorry! Even at 13 you should be able to scratch together 13$ if it's really that important to you ... I always did by trading pokemon cards or gameboy cartridges. Giving you a free ride and making things easy for you just because you're young would also set you up for failure in the long run.

@@CobraCode Thank you for the support and i understand that this is not something you can do so yeah and honestly i am super hyped that you even responded even if it was a not that suprising no

@@CobraCode oh and i would like to ask if in unreal engine 5 you have ever had a glitch where when you make the blueprint theres nothing there

@@sampsa362 Yeah, it happens sometimes. You can go up to the 'Window' tab and set all of the separate windows to 'active' again to recover in most cases. In rare cases a blueprint can get corrupted and you can sometimes save it by re-parenting it... but sometimes it's just completely destroyed, so it's important to always use version control and do frequent commits

Apparently it is, because the original thumbnail showing a 3D Platformer performed much worse.

Hey, Actually no :) I had more than enough job opportunities, but I prefer to be my own boss and work on things I'm actually passionate about. Working at a game company is actually not as great as you might think. Most of the time you'll just be a cog in big machine and only take care of a very small part of a game and often your feedback and ideas will just be completely ignored. I've had frustrating experiences with that working at the VR Game company I mentioned in the video. Working for yourself allows you to do things your own way and your earnings potential is much higher as well if you do things right. Being self employed was always my end goal and I finally reached it.