I quit my job to go full time Indie

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theweirdn8

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After seeing so many other posts similar to this I thought I should make my own thread about it. Yesterday I quit my job to go full time indie. Currently, my 1st game is being finished in C/C++, but I plan to complete many more projects using Game Maker in the near future. I wrote a blog post here.
 
Please read it and let me know what you think.
 
I look for your wisdom and support in this huge life endeavor.
 
What is "full time indie"?  I quit my job back in 2006 and it changed my life for the better!
 
moving to a more suited forum, and I can't say this is a good choice.
 
What is "full time indie"?  I quit my job back in 2006 and it changed my life for the better!


They mean they quit their job to work on their independent games for a full time workload. Don't listen to Demon, there is nothing wrong with it, presuming you have enough money to support yourself and have done the relevant risk assessment stuff.

I would recommend looking at different engines than Game Maker because it is fairly limited compared to others. I would look into something like Unity or UDK if I were in your position. The fact that you are familiar with programming is great so you don't have to worry about looking for 'programmer-n00b' engines.

Best of luck.
 
Dragonborn99 said:
Why would you quit your job? Now you make no profit right?
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I'm on disability now so no worries from me.
 
It is definitely a risky market to simply quit your job over....
 
Best of luck on your new indie games. I read on TechnoBuffalo that Minecraft sold 13 million games on Mac and PC, and minecraft is an Indie game, so it is possible to make a living making indie games.
 
I'll try not to under estimate your skills but as you can imagine a lot of people are not going to believe this is a good approach into a career.
One of the problems with people who attempt to create a game is they fail to realize that making the game is about 5%.
If you don't want to end up doing circles trying to make a little profit within the next 10yrs you'll need the make a thorough business plan and GDD to map out the next 3yrs for sure.

And a last suggestion is to keep your goals realistic. I noticed in the article a long term goal was to reach current gen-consoles. I don't want to hurt your feelings but the graphics on your trailer is like 8-bit(1990).

If you do find a way to produce REAL profit and not donations from kickstarter use your money wisely to benefit your game.

take a look at this guy
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/524168447/the-stomping-land?ref=live
He has a budget of $400,000 planned out.
Not one single dollar on marketing and promotion. Not a single word on marketing.
This is a serious problem. While the game looks promising and good, with 8 hired designers and no one on payroll who actually cares about the business part it's a sure waste of $400K.
 
theweirdn8 said:
 
After seeing so many other posts similar to this I thought I should make my own thread about it. Yesterday I quit my job to go full time indie. Currently, my 1st game is being finished in C/C++, but I plan to complete many more projects using Game Maker in the near future. I wrote a blog post here.
 
Please read it and let me know what you think.
 
I look for your wisdom and support in this huge life endeavor.
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Not to be negative but why not wait to quit your job until after you've seen whether your first game is a success?

It's a bit big headed to think my first game which isn't even finished yet is going to be such a success i'm going to quit my paying job...

But good luck nonetheless.
 
GamerPerfection said:
Not to be negative but why not wait to quit your job until after you've seen whether your first game is a success?

It's a bit big headed to think my first game which isn't even finished yet is going to be such a success i'm going to quit my paying job...

But good luck nonetheless.
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Work contracts for developers often have clauses stating that everything they develop, even if they do it from their home and spare time, is owned by the company.
 
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