My First Game Made $7,430 (I kind of hate it) 

I learned a lot after releasing 4 games on Steam! Let me know if there is anything else you would like me to talk about in future videos.

glad i found this channel, for some reason a lot of indie dev youtubers dont actually release any games but just act like they know what theyre doing lmao. but you actually released multiple games with a super straight forward marketing strat, very inspiring

I’d definitely call that a success, especially for your first release. Well done!

One of the best things about game development is that you CAN start over on your next game. That's not true for most other software development projects. Also, game dev is a journey that stacks on your previous attempts. Each game builds your skills, reputation and hopefully bank account.

im brazilian, with that money i could live for about 5 years, so i take this as a huge success hopefully its also worth a lot in your country

I'd be extremely proud of making that. Good on ya bruv

Cool to see some of what goes into publishing a game on the back end! And I feel you on getting burnt out on old/beginning projects - you learn a ton, but it gets so exhausting to return to over time, lol

Thanks for sharing your experience. Most of the time you only hear about the exceptional success stories, but what brings a lot more value is what people learn along the way. Hope your next games will bring you more success.

It’s always hard to create something and look back on it with the wisdom you’ve gained in the meantime. Let it teach you but don’t let it discourage you! Congratulations on what you’ve accomplished and hope you keep making awesome stuff

Interested in following your development journey, so liked and subscribed!

Hindsight is always 20/20. Even though I'm not a game dev it works like this in everything in life and when it comes to your game there's always option to update your game I think you did great for a first release

That is legit pretty good! Steam is a ruthless Darwinian place and most games do not make even a hundred dollars. Keep going, it looks like you have what it takes!

Félicitations, c'est bien de voir des développeurs Québecois qui sont pas des mobile shill ou des clounes qui travaillent pour Ubisoft!

I also recently released a game, and I can with pretty much full confidence say that what you did to market yours is everything that makes any sense to do in today's world... I don't know about 2021, but right now nothing but Steam Next Fest and youtubers lead to anything. I put in quite a lot of effort into a lot of different marketing efforts that did nothing, the game sold 40-ish copies on release and got stuck there for a month, before one of the few people I had approached and who really liked the game released his video that went sort of viral. The game is closing in on $12K gross now about a month after the release of the said video... Which honestly is pretty insane to me. It's still not sustainable if you consider the huge amount of time I spent on the game, but assuming it doesn't completely dry out now it can hopefully carry me through my final year of grad school and onto the next game release.

Incredibule work, but 1:18 makes me cry just looking at it

1:16 Whatever you work on next, structure your code with OOP, almost everything I see is either boilerplate-code or flooded with features into single function calls or files such that any form of debugging, test suites or adding/refactoring/removing aspects is pretty unstable and probably slow. At least this is the kind of harsh feedback I needed to adjust to a proper coding style which makes one tremendously faster and better at writing code. ( and neat game btw c: )

I'm blown away that Steam is taking 30%

Hey! how do you send the keys to youtubers? Using the youtube email you can only get 5 per day, is there a way everyone here has to contact them? XD

Super impressive for your first Steam game. I know you had criticisms of the game in retrospect, but at the very least, the art style is killer. Did you do the art / capsule art yourself? If so that's crazy cool. Your most recent game Koboo also looks sick, curious to hear how the release for that game went too.

Bro, make pixel game but sandbox mmorpg, like Albion, can make house in private island, can cut tree, mining ore, fishing, farming, and doing dungeon solo or group with party, I`ll gladly throw some money on it.

I thought the steam games admin backend stuff is NDA'ed not to show?

2.5 wishlists - thats the problem ;)

Ensured that title is wrong.

nice :)

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