7 Years Of Solo Game Development 

This guy has some big balls to do VR as his first releases to steam. Don't care if they flopped. Respect.

Thanks for your straight up honesty - unlike 99% of the rest of RU-vid. You basically only ever hear about the successes, almost never the failures...I hope this last game your making does better and yes, maybe get into marking some more...good idea

The fact you started at zero and ended up releasing something on steam is pretty epic. Good work.

You are one of the examples that makes me believe in my dream of being a full time game developer ! Thank you!

hearing you talk about doing game dev on the side that consistently for that long while being that busy at another job is incredible really, I hope you are able to continue to do this fulltime, thank you for sharing your journey either way!

I've been making games solo for the past six years and this video is extremely relatable, seeing you not quit even after your game doesn't succeed is very inspiring to me. I wish you all the luck with your games and devlogs and I hope you will be able to live the dream and keep making games fulltime!

Your perseverance is inspiring and your raw authenticity is refreshing. Wishing you much success!

Alright brother I am saying this from the MOST LOVING and positive place in my heart. I have worked in sales and customer-facing positions my entire life (sales, golf caddie, hotel manager, and now I have been running my own detailing business, successfully, for two years). That's to give you an idea of why I feel confident saying this: You 100% will be successful. I know for a 100% fact. But there's a catch. You desperately NEED to spend time on your "presentation". Everything about your image and public persona. This is what snatches the most positive mass attention and gives you trust and respect in the public eye. For your game AND MORE IMPORTANTLY for your physical self. Your camera quality, your haircut, your clothes, your body language & posture, your video background, your speech cadence and volume, your eye contact, and everything that's setting the scene on camera, etc. You know how games require hundreds of layers of consideration? Think the same way with your content publishing and I PROMISE you will 100% succeed in your marketing and devlog efforts. Consider the lighting, your words, your clothes, etc etc like I said above. The beautiful thing is that you can do 20 takes to get it right before posting. And take this same energy into your games. I really like your persistence and I respect your journey. You're going to do big things and I wanted to pitch this to you in hopes I might help in a meaningful way. God bless you brother. I'm proud to see you sticking with it and busting it out. Hell yeah.

This is fantastic. Very real, human, honest, and hopefully very inspirational to people who started basically where you did. You did exactly the thing that thousands turn to wanting to do every year, and you made it work. And still are! Very impressive, well done and congratulations.

Thanks for sharing your story! Keep up the work brother!

Developing games while you work at construction full time is not easy... I respect you for your hard work and passion. I hope one day you will achieve great success so keep it up brother!

Your story inspires me. best of luck on your game dev journey. much respect!

I salute for people who so brave and never give up...

Good luck and thank you for sharing your story. Hopefully you'll make a living doing what you love to do.

Good luck brother! Keep hustling, doing what you enjoy. Makes the world a better place.

Hell yeah. I hope you keep pushing! Starting the way you did takes a lot of persistence and dealing with adversity, which many folks don't have. I am pretty certain that you'll keep improving and produce something amazing.

great video! really inspiring and kudos on you saving all this footage throughout the years. I like how honest and open you are about the journey and impressed how you were pushing while working long hours especially in physically intensive job

Thanks for sharing your journey Mikey, best of luck in the future bro!

Thanks for sharing your journey. Goodluck on your future projects!

as someone who just started out a year ago this video is much appreciated, especially the honesty mate. Good Job! dont quit

your such a big inspiration, this is something ive been willing to do so long and i've tried to make a first steam release but i quited after more then 3 motnhs of concistant work.. I hope one day picking it back up and make it like you did! Thanks for the amazing video

Thanks for sharing your story. Good luck to you!

great insights, i love how you never gave up on your journey. Working solo is very stressful sometimes, but you took it as a fun part of your life. Good work man, keep growing.

I'm glad I watched this video! I'm surprised with all the leetcode and c# experience you gained there was no mention of switching from construction to software engineering to help fund your projects and learn the programming language deeper or just to meet other developers who can help you learn more, i think you definitely would have a good shot at it. Thanks again for posting this video

Good stuff. Thanks a lot for your efforts! Wish you the best in your game dev career!

I really enjoyed listening to your story! Thankyou for sharing

I put it on my wishlist. As soon as it comes out I will be more than happy to buy the game and support you. Keep up the work my man!

What an inspiring story! Way to go! Thank you for sharing!

I have great respect for your journey as a game dev so far, keep it up!

Really impressive journey, huge respect at your determination!

I love your story so inspiring ,thanks for sharing with us.

Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!

Loved hearing your insight! I hope your new game goes well for you

Now that is what i call perseverance. Wish you all the best on future releases. Definitely subscribed.

Awesome Video! It was really enlightening to learn about your story and see how I could maybe adjust my learning style when it comes to Game Dev :)

Well done I wish you all the best and good on you for taking the plunge

Thank you for sharing this super inspirational story. Wish you all the best fam. Keep pushing

you are great! what a dedication!

Great video man! A true inspiration of how to go for it, even when faced with failure. Don't give up!

Your consistency and persistence in learning and developing real products over the years, without any constraints from school or work obligations, is simply amazing. Respect, bro, you are an inspirational figure.

Very inspiring story, I wish you the absolute best and I'm certain you'll be a huge success!

Loved the video. Wishing you success in the future! Keep up the good work!

Well done mate, your determination and persistence is admirable.

I really enjoyed the video. Fingers crossed for Wildkins, already on wishlist . Good luck!

you are definitely on the right path! congrats

Thanks for sharing your story man!

I absolutely loved your video. as an aspiring developer (who hasn't developed literally anything) this was really motivating!

Really great information, was a pleasure to hear your journey. Wishing you all the best in the future. Subscribed, liked and look forward to your future videos.

All the success to you! You really deserve it!

Really inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

I've just subscribed! And it only took this one video! Keep going, Sir.

This is such a honest video. I think everyone can feel how hard game dev really is. I like the success stories of indie games. But I think you show greatly how hard it truly is and how high the chance of failing is. wish you the best with the next release!

Your resilience is inspiring. Impressed you kept going whenever you had a setback and went to leetcode to improve. Thanks for sharing your story!

Really amazing seeing your progress in gamedev! Inspired me to come back to my routine of gamedev too!

Loved it!! The story is impressive and inspiring! And I love the honesty. Keep it going!

Amazing that you stayed motivated for as long as you did. As someone who quit their job and tried the self-taught route, I don't know that I have the same mettle as you. Best of luck to you going forward.

Man I wish you good luck. Solo game dev is a tough business.

love your honest speaking

Best of luck on your journey!

Amazing journey!!! Great video!!!

Love the vid men very encouraging!

i enjoyed this video !! you ever motivated me to start learning game making i have 0 idea it's not my domain ( i have a like a standard 9 to 5 job i'm happy with for now ) but i want to do something i love

I love games and I would love to learn about it but I know it's really hard and I know I don't have the capabilities to do it. You really need to love this area, it's probably one of the hardest in the field. You are a goat man!

The knowledge you gained must be immense. You must game on a whole nother level now.

Dude! You are doing AWESOME!!! Best part is that you like what you are doing! Just remember to throw yourself into the games that you want to eventually play! No matter what type of game it is! You can make all kinds of videos about what you are doing. I haven't really seen many people who in-depth game devlogs. I see how they touch on certain points, but not EVERYTHING they did which could be an eye opener. Remember to make Shorts on RU-vid as much as possible. They are the billboards which drive people to your videos!

Keep up the good work and good luck with it.

bro i wish i had your dedication!

Good luck! I hope you will made your dream game!

I genuinely wish you the best in your journey. Loved the video, loved the honesty. I JUST quit my job to go full time on my app so I understand your feeling. I also learned programming on the fly back in august 2023 while I started to work on the project.

Proud of you, keep going :)

I applaud your resilience. Grinding your way from nothing to multiple steam releases is a big achievement. The one thing I personally found from making games is that art (3d, design, etc) makes up more than 60% of most games and doing all that solo is just impossible.

Sweet video man, cool journey!

Well done mate, keep it going!

You got a new subscriber. Good luck with your journey

good luck man. wish you all the best!

Cool work dude! Looks awesome! Keep it up

Good luck! Very inspiring video for all of us who started to learn game dev sometime xD

Respect the grind sir !!

This was awesome!!

Awsome content, kudos for all the hardwork and passion!

Inspiring, man! Great job and I'm subbed now

Thank you for the detail info.

I like to wish all the best. Game is now on my wishlist (:

I love your story journey

I can totally relate to you, In 2017 I was put in a spot where I kinda ventured into a similar path, and right now after watching your video I believe I am in the same spot as you were before getting your first Steam launch. It takes balls to go this dark path and it is very lonely too, wish you all the luck

I've been struggling with getting into the code for years now, Like I wish to build whats on my mind but I can never push myself hard enough to do it. Your video is inspiring keep on doing what you love man! Huge respect to you! FOR THE HORDE ! :D

Amazing video! Respect!

really interesting watch, all the best

Epic story. Resonates with so many of us game devs. Keep going!

Competing on Steam is a hustle for sure. Building an audiens/fanbase ready to buy your game should be pretty helpful. Wish you lots of success with your project!

Actually kinda cool idea with WildKins. Going to add it to the wishlist and cross fingers for succesful release.

the fact that you where able to learn all this and make this progress while working so many hours is very impressive 💪

Thanks for keeping it real!

I like this origin story type videos about developers, as a dev, coding also changed my life.

Ahhh!! I’m so proud of you❤️❤️

atta babe mikey. Keep that hard work flowing.

Very awesome video! Keep it up. Starting to inspire me to try my hand at game dev, its been a life long wish to develop games, now I feel stuck in factory work.

Inspiring. And interesting that today I had idea what game I would do

I hope your channel gets popular and I do hope you become successful one day :) I think what you have accomplished is already fantastic. I myself just started my coding journey not too long ago. I have never done game development, but always thought it was cool. Thanks for giving some real insight on what it is like to be a game developer in today's world. Appreciate your honesty. I do truly hope you succeed.

You are an inspiration my dude. As much as I know about it being a game dev could be one of the most tiresome and hard jobs in tech not to mention have skills in logic, art and management at the same time! Your story of maintaining a physically exerting job while learning to build games in parallel and learn to code makes me think that I am not doing enough. Devs like you remind me to stay grounded and do better. It would be my great pleasure to see more of your journey here.