Personal Finance for Independent Software Developers 

Glad you liked the video :-). One of the benefits of doing a game from scratch is how it eventually turns you into a really effective and productive programmer. Because of the skills I learned from doing things this way, my day job slowly transitioned from something that takes a medium amount of effort to basically being a sinecure. Most day job programmers aren't all that ambitious, and they waste their time on the phone or in code reviews trying to look superior by pointing out small aesthetic nitpicky things. So if you just don't do any of that, you can get a lot done. I could usually finish all of my tickets for the sprint a week before it ends. The managers couldn't keep up with me. They couldn't give me enough meaningful work to stay busy, so I would just work on my own stuff when it got dead like that. Most weeks it was about ten hours. On some weeks, I might get as much as twenty hours in. If I felt particularly motivated, I might take Saturday off and work most of a Sunday. We have this silly protestant work ethic here in America. We think we owe our employers our time. I reject that notion. I think we owe our employers a valuable outcome, and it is their responsibility to provide an environment where we can contribute something of high value. If you think along those lines, you can cut down on a lot of bullshit and free up a decent chunk of time.

I'll play with it. Thank you for the suggestions

I appreciate the vote of confidence. Absolutely. Maybe I'll bring my aunt Mary on to discuss it. She used to teach tax law.

I honestly don't know. I haven't worked with publishers before. But I would say it all depends on the kind of deal you can get. Definitely reach out to them and see what deals they offer, and then go from there. It's a complicated subject.