Don’t do game dev KZfaq, not even once. I lost my wife and kids

"Ghithub first, KZfaq second", you're right, better to be a developer than an influencer.

It's def not worth doing as a grind, just for fun. Hope you get that job and Georgia stays good!

I made a game in... hang on, Unity's loading. Still loading. Um, you know what, this could take a minute. Let's just watch KZfaq.

There is a third kind of content - devlogs.

The best way to fail is to not try. You do game dev streaming which is slower paced and doesn't need to be packed into a video

This is true for all software related channels. It's best to not treat KZfaq as a job but as a form of expression or to show off your projects. You don't need to play the content game to make good content.

So much respect for saying this out loud. Someone needs to. Feature-by-feature youtube content makes me annoyed because it's never made in a sustainable way. When you start actually working with the technologies they've explained you see how little they understood it, and that they basically made their content while following a tutorial themselves.

Alexander Bruce: " A lot of people use the word luck to explain things they don't understand"

Being a dev for exactly 2 days, I agree, essentially, we'd have 2 jobs, one is youtube and one is making our game. I don't like making the performative content, I'm not using KZfaq for that now; I happened to be a creator that analyses games before, so it's blending in well; but, I hear you.

Focusing on the projects first while making KZfaq videos as a byproduct is definitely the way to go. Your skills will improve faster and it shows in the videos. I've found my audience/viewership to also be more stable over the last 6 years than what is common with the more performative content. Educational content can also be part of that process since it's easy to make a good tutorial when you understand a topic very well.

Sounds like you have a great idea on direction! Good luck to you and I look forward to what is to come!

I didn't know it was possible to change a channel name. I thought we had to just create a new channel. Good to learn, thanks.

Good luck Tamta! I hope to see some great game development from you in the near future.

Looking forward to your new content and best of luck with your fight against tyranny!

I don't really know much about the topic and definitely have not been making any content

I still get comments telling me how I should modify my content for my channel, I have to keep telling people I am not a youtuber, I am just making videos and uploading stuff that I want to put up. The whole idea of trying to create a channel, to me, is just silly.

As a Georgian migrant currently living in Australia as a result of the 2008 Russian Georgian situation it's tragic to hear these issues are still plaguing us to this day. This is the first video I've seen from you (youtube algorithm recommendations popping off) but best of luck on your work and your channel, hopefully game dev becomes a path forward for you as a result of your hard work! I'm exploring the software engineering space myself and while it's a different ball game here in Australia, it's still pretty tricky to find opportunities for work in general which kinda sucks

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I hope that things get better in Georgia.