How To Make A Game Alone (In 2024) 

shoulda gave the numbers tho

(( A GOOD IDEA )) A Playstation 5 console game where 100 online players per session can choose to be part of a squad of Marines, Predators, or Xenomorphs. One player per session will have the opportunity to play as The Queen Xenomorph. The objective of the game is for the Predators and Marines to stop the Xenomorph hive, while the Xenomorphs must work together to defend their hive. There are no AI bots in the game, and players have the option to choose which squad they want to be a part of. The game focuses solely on online multiplayer gameplay, without any campaign mode.

Silent Hill 4 The Room much?

Man's a millionaire now, he has to protect himself lol...

LOL That's what I was thinking @@damsen978

4:22 for reals though what is that all about?

its a gamedev joke

I wish AAA studios would re-use their own assets more often too (I get that some do, but it seems, at least to my laymen eye, that they rarely do.) They complain about costs of new games, and they can save so much by re-using their own assets. But they seem insistent on needing to remake simple things, like a tree....

Some of the best games from my childhood were asset flips. Legend of Zelda Majora's mask and the two oracle games were either entirely asset flips or mostly using assets from another game in the series. It's ok to reuse assets as long as you aren't hindering the game with it.

The problem oftentimes is having the bought assets fit together to have an art direction that is coherent. If you don't take the time to do this, the game will look amateur and very poorly made and people will be turned off by screenshots alone.

@@bbreimm you can solve a lot of issues with post-processing and shaders to give a more uniform look to your game. If you just slap things in there without modifying sure it'll look out of place but only lazy people are doing that.

​@@cybernoid001 they do, you just haven't realized. Search up how rockstar optimized Rdr2, Gta games etc, or Bethesda with elderscrolls and CDPR with Witcher

He went to the same homschool co-op that i did and only graduated a couple years ago. I distinctly remember one year seeing a presentation board of his showing off art from My Beautiful Paper Smile, and that's what caused me to look him up again about a year ago before he made Choo Choo Charles. It's crazy to know that a guy i distinctly remember being in my classes is THIS well known now and has created some of the most amazing games for an indie solo developer.

@@_spineless "most amazing games" bro you don't even play indie games and here you are talking about impressive shit. Nothing is impressive about this asset flip meme game.

​@@deadlock_problem I play more indie games than AAA ones, actually. By "most amazing games" i really meant "most unique and successful games", i probably should have phrased it differently lol. Asset flips are games with no effort put into them to the extent that they are using other people's assets to form any sense of quality in the game. If you've seen Choo Choo Charles, you'd know it's not that. The gameplay, graphics, story, and every other part of the game was solely thought out and developed by Gavin himself, and that is not an easy thing to do. Many indie developers use bought assets to get work done more quickly, and that is exactly what Gavin did (but he also modified the assets to make and art style). The game isn't exemplary in any particular area, but it's by no means bad. Just because it's popular and it's a horror game with a memorable antagonist doesn't mean that it's automatically a bad game. As to the "talking impressive shit" part of what you said, i am not saying that Choo Choo Charles is his best project by any means. My Beautiful Paper Smile is a much deeper, more thoughtful, and smarter game by Gavin that i think is very much superior, and is why i say "impressive" in relation to his projects. Like i said though, Choo Choo Charles is definitely not a bad game, otherwise it would be thrown in with failed mascot horror games like Hello Neighbor and Garten of Banban. As an experience it is solid.

@@_spineless most indie devs don't have all of there assets except for 3 things as bought assets, that's honestly shocking. I knew it was a slop game but man that's fucking crazy. I can name about 100 indie games released this year that are better in every regard. I could probably easily name 1000 games that put in more effort too. This is blueprints + copy pasta + asset flip + meme horror the game. Nobody is going to care about this game in a year.

Hire me then. It's shocking how junior devs get jobs who do not understand these things...

Not sure if you know how long it takes to make a video or how difficult it is to keep attention of the viewers. Interviews take a lot of time away from people who could be working on their own projects as well

Thomas does have a handful of longer-form interviews in the course he offers, fyi.

It's just a snippet from an interview that is almost an hour and a half long, the full video is called "Choo-Choo Charles & The Secret To Its Success"

He's trying to keep Choo-Choo Charles out

He had a couch against his door in another video before the locks.

Hopefully with this game he can move from that neighborhood!

What’s the deal with it? Noticed it in the podcast

​@@CosmicSabbath joke answer? He's keeping choo choo Charles out. Real answer? He's said before that the door opens sometimes, I think due to the wind, so he has to take steps to make sure it stays shut.

What's stopping you??

Second best time is right now. Guarantee you there were developers back in 2015 regretting not making “the game” that was trending at the time

I actually got a very cool idea for a game. Wanna hear it? If you want to just tell me cuz I'm too lazy to write it now

I'm making a game called Adam's Rib not a horror game but I may add horror elements to it later

@@zcnaipowered7407 I got an idea for a game that could make you famous, tell me if you're interested

Can you elaborate on those things, how did you count all that?

@@becomeunlimited It's just a ballpark. The gist of the technique is to multiply number of reviews by 30 then multiply by sale price. The theory being 1 in 30 people who bought the game leave a review. But then you subtract steam cut (30%), taxes (7-10%), returns/charge backs(3-5%), & average discount (20%). You can search "steam revenue estimate boxleiter" to learn more.

Funny, i just thought half off the 550,000 people refunded the game (ofc i know not every wishlister bought the game but prob more then 550k bought it) and dev gets half of the remaining money after tax, steam cut ect. and found the same number

@@Kpt. well I found 5-6M is estimated gross revenue of the game, so 2.7M net for him is pretty realistic

honestly, that was a really really great tip

Yep its really nice tip

Thought it was for decoration but everyone seems alerted by it, seems like he has the occasional run in with thieves, hate acts or something different. becoming a sudden millionaire is like a death sentence if you cant act about it in the first week

just move to a different district or city ;) @@nicewater894

game was released when he was 21 years old so i doubt he was in the industry before that

Noclip did a short documentary that goes into that

Sky harvest

haha yes bro @@Pixy_Games 🤗

Same

Once I noticed, I couldn't un-noticed it

Think about it. Why would there be an odd amount of locks and boards on an interior door deliberately in the background of a RU-vid video? Thiiiiiinkkkkkkkkkk

I didn’t even notice till you pointed it out

Here's My personal tips to add in: Keep a game idea document on your phone. Almost random times of day, you may get a goldstar idea, but not be near a pen+pencil. Type it out or OR Get a free voice recorder app, turn it on and say your idea! You can write it down in a minute, right now you're getting the idea out first Think about why games become household names. Attention to detail, no cheap lazy solutions where interest could up the anté A real personal tip: make it as new as you can. Pick directions seldom taken, monsters we don't understand, mechanics that need to be learned. That's what makes a 1 hour game, for me, into a multi hundred hour fun time I advertise to my friends

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 u funny as hell man

You actually think he made up spider-train? That’s just a cover.

Lol

Good luck bruh you can do it how long you've been on the project & what's the project is it a horror game survival game or beat's em all Since you've done a large part of coding to make it EZ why don't you buy assets & modify them as you pleas you'll save time I mean This is the way

@aragami6681 I've been seriously working on it for about 6 months now. I have purchased some assets and modified them, but some stuff I need to make from scratch. It's a fps and vehicle combat game. 80s retrowave style. Vibes. Shoot down rival courier company while delivering parcels to upgrade your vehicle and apartment.

maybe he lives in Portland

For real, dude needs to move somewhere safer

That his portal to another eldritch universe.

Right, I was wondering why no one was talking about his fucking door.

He's a werewolf and it's a full moon night ( I assume )