"Quit being cringe, just finish your game" This is exactly what I told myself a few weeks ago and now I've "completed" my first mobile game! One step at a time...

The "infatuation" phase is so real and addictive. I tend to day dream about the next project while still working on the current one. Gotta fight it!

I felt like ive just watched a feature length film with a full redemtion ark. it was awesome to hear your story

cool vid! I'm a dev too and always tempted to start some quirky side project minigame in the middle of bigger games, haha

Dude i thought this channel had like 200k subs or something, where's that

I totally agree, I'm almost at the end of my project and I have gone through all these phases. I know what it means to lose interest in your own project, but you will see that it is only momentary and that the satisfactions will come. This video is very useful, keep working on your projects guys :)

Tip 1#: "Double your timeline" **Sweating at my current 1 year timeline** **Also sweating that I haven't done any sound, menus, or saving** Anyways, amazing video editing, great story telling and some solid advice for GameDevs! Also, I love the froggy hats :P

Man, this is exactly what I'm going through. I was procrastinating watching your video instead of making progress on my game. At least I found a good new youtube channel to follow ;)

Outstanding video! I love the editing and writing. This is genuinely extremely well made and deserves to be watched by more people. I am 1 month into a (for my standards) huge C2 project myself, so this is very helpful and relatable.

I love the pixel art in the game at 7:30 I'd totally watch a tutorial video on this style.

I love finding new dev's to keep an eye on, love the content my dood!

I found this at a great time, I was just thinking about all of the animations I've left half finished in favor of starting something new the second the infatuation ends lol. even though I don't make games, this is very relatable!

Soo true, I made a Jam game a few weeks ago and I still haven't gone back to my long term project. Thanks for the kick in the A&% I'm gonna jump back on it. Thanks 👍 Subbed

Some really solid advice here. I definitely fell through some of these pitfalls like getting the timescale on my project wrong. Currently I suspect I'll finish in December but I had originally aimed for September. Either way I'm going to finish it!

This is so interesting; your story, editing, and information/tips are wondeful! Thank you

you got this broski

This feels like such a sign from the universe. I downloaded and played your kana game ages ago. It helped me learn my kana, and now Im trying my best to learn C++ for game creation. Thanks so much for what you do. Keep it up, dude!!

Looking forward to your future videos! Great production quality!

Just watched all your videos and I'm excited for even more! Subbed!

The production of this video is amazing, keep it up if you can! Very helpful tips too! :)

i just watched through all of your other videos & you're quickly becoming my favorite devlog channel. they've helped get my gamedev juices flowing (i don't really program. i can do basic stuff, but i really like the limitations of bitsy, so i just use that). i can't wait to see what you put out next. keep up the good work!

Great video! Found you a couple of days ago and I’ve been watching through all of your stuff! Looking forward to seeing what you do in the future!

Great video! Amazing production value for such a small channel, I could learn from that for sure

This is good advice for more than just video game development. I will occasionally loose motivation on videos or scripts and it can be really hard to keep going when you think of a new fun idea.

Your story telling is amazing! You're quite close to 1k, good luck on the future of your channel and games! :D

Hi, Really nice video. Helps me, when hitting yet another input problem in my now 1 year project. Good luck with the bug themed metroidvania game =)

This video appeared to me in the perfect timing. I'm not a gamedev (yet) but I have real problems with side-projects. I was literally about to jump to a new one without finishing my last one. Thanks! Your editing is really pleasing too. I'm looking forward to watch your channel growth :)

You got a sub my man :) stay focused, I've over 10 unfinished games and I feel inspired by your video to get them finished

Great video! Ended up downloading your game and I find it really useful when learning kana, and the video was also useful for motivation, thank youuuuu

Great video editing! I love those frog sprites btw

I've been looking for an engaging way to finally drill kana into my thick skull. You just came in clutch, thanks man.

I got two things I really needed in one video, gamedev advice and a cool game for learning hiragana and katakana. I think you could improve the game by telling the player which letter was the correct one, so the player can learn and practice at the same time. I don't want to have to go to the larning tab and learn all the letters by heart. Other than that, a great game and very cool video.

Such an underrated channel i love your videos! I always find good insight and inspiration from them

great vid, love your editing style!

This is genius. I love the popping colors!

this is so underrated, please keep making videos they are great

Good work, you've motivated myself. Got a new subscriber and I hope you get lots more and keep motivating more people.

currently working on the alpha for a game that's very ambitious and has taken 1 year to get even remotely close to the finish line, if you're trying to make something huge having a team to fall back on when you get demotivated helped me out, but that's not for everyone. IDK what advice I would give other than "just finish it, its worth it" because we're close to the finish line for the alpha and its really exciting for a years worth of progress to finally be coming to a head. I also treated every large feature that I was making like a side project, which helped me because when I finished a huge system, it felt great to finish that feature fully, because it alone felt like the development of an entire small game.

Amazing video and story :) I think people can learn a lot from you, including me XD

Very good video man. Love it

Nice video! I had the same experience when I had the gloriouse idea to make a meditation app as a side-project while working on my indie game xD

Cool video man, thanks for sharing :D

Funny, the last project I thought will take me three days started on the 29th of July. Now it is the 10th of November, and I'm quite happy that only two more months are needed to finish it, so I guess I kinda feel you.

My first game ever, I’m making what I thought was a simple arcade top down shooter. I thought there’s plenty of tutorials and it wouldn’t take that long. I had a concept within a day or two. I’m now a year later. Though to be fair, I went on holiday for two months and I have a full time job so can only work on it a few hours a night if at all

I feel that. For my current project I was also about to givr up tho I thought I can just make devlogs to keep me working on it and since then its much more fun and I'm working more active :DD

Glad you finished Kana Pond ;)

Thank you so much for making this video. I have ventured into making "games" last year, it wasn't anything big but I wanted to prove myself in my coding ability. A few days later, as I was coding my game, I started to think about making new games and that really took a blow on my game's quality. Ouch. Wish I could do game dev again but my laptop's broke and my country is politically unstable + covid so I'm too scared to go out and send my laptop to a repair center lol.

The only side projects I work on whilst I make my big RPG game is game jams. It works for me.

Before watching this video, I was making a game in Godot, then I started thinking that I should make a side project in Construct... and then this video showed up. Thanks Goodgis, because this really helped me focus on my main project.

There's another thing that happens to us developers which is the refactoring addiction. When you are developing something you always are learning things, new methods, new algorithms, new patterns, etc. Then after that learning lapse you look back your "old" code and finds several ways to "improve" them and spend time refactoring that code and it becomes a infinite loop of improving older code. This also applies to every area, graphic design ("ohh, that character could have this new outfit" and you redraw the entire character again), music.

I feel this… I’ve spent the last 5 months jumping around with different programming languages when it wasn’t really necessary

I'm not a game dev but this is good advice for me since I work on non-game coding projects! Thanks!

I don't know whether side projects are *as* dangerous, as long as you're aware of what you're doing. I think opening little experimental projects and just prototyping one or two things really quickly can be incredibly helpful in building up your familiarity with your engine. As you mentioned, sticking with an engine you're comfortable with helps drive you to completion, and I think anything that helps you get better _overall_ at the act of game development is, when handled properly, probably a net positive.

I think some (me) have a problem where something just isn't quite right, with the graphics, animations, sound, code, etc, to the point where we convince ourselves to "take a step back" and come back with a fresh mind, which allows us to start a small project... which becomes a large project that we end up taking a step back from ... ... ...

Really cool video :) Try to lower the music volume a little bit to make your voice more audible.

I tried making a Let's play, got about half way through the game, and just kind of stopped. Maybe it's not the healthiest solution, but I haven't played that game since; it's not because I didn't like the game, I really enjoyed it, but I had to punish/reason with myself that I always quit doing something and never finish anything. That let's play was the closest I ever got to finishing anything, and I still couldn't do it. But, the fun of video editing became more and more like a chore: at first I was making lots of small visual gags, and near the end it felt lifeless. I felt like I didn't have the creativity or energy to make it fun, and my gameplay/commentary definitely couldn't do it on its own. Makes me mad at myself whenever I think of it. It's been over a year now, and I don't think I could back, out of shame or whatever. Glad you were able to drag yourself to the finish line.

This is such a good concept! Also I'm trying to learn Japanese as well! Good luck !

I personally have a lot of experience with making games, but because of never finishing a game for a very long time I don't have much to show for. However, watching these videos and thanks to game making communities I managed to finish a game. After years of unfinished little tech demos, that felt good :)

Just watched a couple of your videos and I gotta say, this is some high quality content! The editing is fantastic and I really adore how you do pixel art - is there any chance you'd release a tutorial on what program and tips for it some time?

Just wanted to say thanks because I just realized I am making the same mistakes as you..... so I am taking this video as advice! Thanks for showing me what I am doing wrong :D

Thank you for inspiring me to finish my game

If you ever want to start a side project, find some way to integrate it into the main project, so you can have as many side projects as you want only making the main game bigger

I gave up on a project that I had to rewrite 4 times. It was an IO type of game, but I decided to do it in pure vanilla JavaScript. A detail being, I didn't know jack shit of JavaScript or multiplayer code in general. I thought an IO type of game would be simple, but it's actually not. At least I learned a ton. The experience helped me land a better job as a programmer. So it's not all lost. I may pick up this project again one day.

I really like the idea of learning Japanese with cute frogs. I'll definitely play it! I'm glad you didn't give up on it :D

this video made me motivated to work on a game that has been abandoned over a year

Haha, when we were at uni they said to take your timeline estimate and triple it, then the manger would half it at that's the time you'd have to work on that feature

when experiencing burnouts i often take reasonably long breaks and come back to whatever project i had going on before to finish i find it a lot easier than suffering and progress stopping just because you don't feel like it.

Welp imma download Kana Pond now.

Hi. It was an interesting video. Thank you. Could you make a video about your android market jurney / release process and give some advice to indie developers? What was hard what are the obstacles what is the proper way to upload your games into that store? It would be really interesting as well.

If you absolutely HAVE TO make a side project, for sanity or inspiration sake, make a mini-game or new mechanic for your main game.

These are some quality videos.

What happened to Kana Pond? I don't think it's on the Google Play Store anymore.

PERFECT DEFINITION

I know it’s not an easy process, but I’d love to see this on iPhone. I would totally use it.

Reluctantly: Fiiiiiiine. Lol Great video, bud!

Just watched this video and I was curious about the app, noticed it's not on the store anymore 😅

while you almost gave up, i in 7 years, 7!! i've never finished a game ever, not even a small one, not even a easy one, i don't know what's wrong with meeee edit: very good video tbh

Lmao, almost made me quit making my game. I felt similar things as you have. I'm also a graphic designer and a gaming lover. Learned unity for 6 months and the next 10 months developed some prototypes of 5 different style games. This happened between 2017-2018. Then got admitted to a master's of business course in Germany. Right now after finishing my master's after 2 years, started unity again. Thought of picking up old stones from those I made earlier, but I don't remember the logic or motivation behind those codes. But with the skill of project management and personal experience in unity, Now I'm making fast progress. Lessons I've learned personally. ~ At the end of each day, I'm writing myself what I've done, what else to do, what not to do - in a simple excel date wise. ~ Don't give too much attention to detail. Make things work for now. ~ Never break a working code in unity to try something new, or to add a new feature. ~ Never overthink, If u cant push the development- Stop right there and play a game. Come back, and thank me once you solved that issue. ~ If your idea is already existing, rethink them. Don't put your effort into making a clone.

0:45 I was eating popcorn at that moment

dude you are amazingg i love you

Ended up playing the game. Exactly what Hiragana Pixel Party should have been. Simple and effective

My black void of unfinished games isn't really a void anymore....

Underrated. Great. Cool.

6:38 Surprisingly solid advice from a random AT&T agent

I love the art style of this game. If wanted to learn Japanese I might check out this game keep up the good work 👍

dewdrop dynasty is the best game of yours! i like this one too!

Sound advice all around ! Quick question, though, what's the game at 3:13 ? The one with the pig and the mushrooms ?

SO sad the game isnt available anymore 😭 it looked super good though the graphics were really cute :)

For my first game should I start with a smaller game just to learn a bit about actually making games or should I just keep working on the game that I'm passionate about.

Underrated channel

my issue right now is to choose a game engine, have been looking at unity,construct3,Godot and Game maker 2 :)

Hope you like the +1 engagement metrics ;]

Maybe now you can try and make a version for learning cyrillic

Video: *Discord Notification Sound* Me: Scrolls through like a madman finding who tf texted me

3:02 If I said, that my game gonna take whole life then how long it will take ?

So... I just switched to Godot from Unity in an attempt to gain some motivation... what am I suppose to do now. 👀

Why is the intro so relatable? Maybe because I...

You can remove the game src files if you don't want to work on it anymore. It's better that keeping it and thinking that you may some day work on it and complite it.

Media : cyberpunk 2077 will release in november Goodgis : *-double dat-*

Soo trueee...