Becoming a Developer?

Hambo12 · Oct 21, 2012

That made me sad but its reality...

Connector · Oct 21, 2012

Hambo12 said: ↑

So here's what I came up with .....

MAKE YOU HAPPY INC.
Slogan: It's where the happy games are

A one man studio: Henry Kim (Hambo)
Yup my goal is to become a game developer making games to make people happy.
If this works out.
I PROMISE all games I make will NEVER HAVE IAP.
Promise to make the best and unique games with things that's never been done before. Quality over Quanity, the games I make will be worth it.
Genre: Games I plan to make are.
Puzzle games: will have features that has never been done plus MULTIPLE cute characters.
RPG games: I love roleplaying and I plan to make a lot of awesome RPGs , with cool features I have planned, and epic character designs. No voice acting though , maybe in the future one day lol
Mini games : I like chibi cuteness so ill make games like happy street cuteness but non freemium with no IAP.
I'm better at 2D art and hand drawn artwork so we will see
Nice speech aye

+' more

I plan to work on games before I sign up at apple to become a dev, that way I can release my game first right away no time to waste
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The name is funny, it makes me happy just reading it!

Connector · Oct 21, 2012

headcaseGames said: ↑

it's cool to see a couple of people talk on a forum about wanting to get involved and making a game Although be warned it is a tremendous amount of work and twice as much heartbreak. Especially if you have zero idea going into it what all is involved in every regard.

Lots of people look from the outside in and expect "oh I have all these ideas and raw energy and I want to make this fresh rad game with tons of characters and RPG elements and racing minigames and use the unreal engine so it will have lots of realtime shadows and reflections and blah blah blah" and all of this before one even has an idea what goes into programming a single buttonDown!

The reality is that everything is quite complex and, while there are a ton of great tools (so many of which are FREE!) and also a huge community to learn from/with, it really does take a good deal of time and energy.. and patience to get beyond the initial barriers.

If you do go through some hoops and actually get started, you'll learn that even a small, seemingly simple app will balloon into a ton of work (and easily more than you would have expected). Interface design. Character design. Level design. Getting map editor X to sync with engine Y. What devices do I support. Who's going to animate all these characters. Who will make a soundtrack. Do I have enough room in memory for all this stuff. What name will be descriptive and stand out enough for the media to take notice. How do I design an icon that looks cool amidst 55,000 other ones.

Do you want to make something cool so that you can say "yeah, I did that?" and have something neat and complete to show off to your friends? Or are you hoping to actually make a few dollars from your efforts? (basically, purely hobby or business-driven?) Both of these notions are completely different purposes/paths for development.

I'm not here to shoot you down. Doing app development has been some of the most rewarding times I've experienced in my career, even if it has brought me dangerously close to the edge of my bank account (and sanity). The honest truth is that Apple and their ilk have really brought upon a new age where all of this stuff is so much more available to Joe Shmoe. Yes, honestly, anyone CAN make Doodle Jump, even if you're 12 years old. It might look pretty rough, and play a little sloppy, but you can learn to do it and that experience will absolutely teach you a lot (and help you realize what goes into everything, even if just a tiny taste - and then you will know if you want to go further).

Yeah, the "Golden Days" when anyone could put up anything on the store are long over and it's a whole different ballgame now, but this whole side of the larger industry is still in it's infancy and you can bet that there's a few people who are just getting their feet wet with development/business right now for the very first time will be Tomorrow's Bigshots. There's still plenty of room to vie for that position. It's not going to come easy, but you have to start somewhere. And yes, most people who read these words will never get anywhere near there, but no war was won by people who never even tried to do anything. Get busy!
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Yeah, sounds like good advice, thanks for the detailed post!

mikeg123 · Oct 21, 2012

Hambo12 said: ↑

Thanks I like it too, apple does let you make the name yourself right? Like beaver tap games dev of mikey shorts ?
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You can register as an "Individual" or "Company" dev account with Apple. However, to register as a company, you need to have a *real* company. Apple will verify that the company exists.

Dx_0628 · Oct 22, 2012

headcaseGames said: ↑

it's cool to see a couple of people talk on a forum about wanting to get involved and making a game Although be warned it is a tremendous amount of work and twice as much heartbreak. Especially if you have zero idea going into it what all is involved in every regard.

Lots of people look from the outside in and expect "oh I have all these ideas and raw energy and I want to make this fresh rad game with tons of characters and RPG elements and racing minigames and use the unreal engine so it will have lots of realtime shadows and reflections and blah blah blah" and all of this before one even has an idea what goes into programming a single buttonDown!

The reality is that everything is quite complex and, while there are a ton of great tools (so many of which are FREE!) and also a huge community to learn from/with, it really does take a good deal of time and energy.. and patience to get beyond the initial barriers.

If you do go through some hoops and actually get started, you'll learn that even a small, seemingly simple app will balloon into a ton of work (and easily more than you would have expected). Interface design. Character design. Level design. Getting map editor X to sync with engine Y. What devices do I support. Who's going to animate all these characters. Who will make a soundtrack. Do I have enough room in memory for all this stuff. What name will be descriptive and stand out enough for the media to take notice. How do I design an icon that looks cool amidst 55,000 other ones.

Do you want to make something cool so that you can say "yeah, I did that?" and have something neat and complete to show off to your friends? Or are you hoping to actually make a few dollars from your efforts? (basically, purely hobby or business-driven?) Both of these notions are completely different purposes/paths for development.

I'm not here to shoot you down. Doing app development has been some of the most rewarding times I've experienced in my career, even if it has brought me dangerously close to the edge of my bank account (and sanity). The honest truth is that Apple and their ilk have really brought upon a new age where all of this stuff is so much more available to Joe Shmoe. Yes, honestly, anyone CAN make Doodle Jump, even if you're 12 years old. It might look pretty rough, and play a little sloppy, but you can learn to do it and that experience will absolutely teach you a lot (and help you realize what goes into everything, even if just a tiny taste - and then you will know if you want to go further).

Yeah, the "Golden Days" when anyone could put up anything on the store are long over and it's a whole different ballgame now, but this whole side of the larger industry is still in it's infancy and you can bet that there's a few people who are just getting their feet wet with development/business right now for the very first time will be Tomorrow's Bigshots. There's still plenty of room to vie for that position. It's not going to come easy, but you have to start somewhere. And yes, most people who read these words will never get anywhere near there, but no war was won by people who never even tried to do anything. Get busy!
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Yeah you're right. good advice. practice makes not perfect but improvements and within time one will achieve this goal as long as you put in 110% effort into your developments.

Dx_0628 · Oct 22, 2012

Hambo12 said: ↑

That made me sad but its reality...
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just work hard and don't give up!

Eoghann · Oct 22, 2012

Saw Indie Game: The Movie. Pretty eye-opening stuff. You should check it out.

The trials and tribulations small teams of indie devs go through just to get their games out is incredible and daunting. And each of them have quite a few years of game making experience.

So read up, save up and gear up before you take the plunge dude.

Dx_0628 · Oct 22, 2012

Eoghann said: ↑

Saw Indie Game: The Movie. Pretty eye-opening stuff. You should check it out.

The trials and tribulations small teams of indie devs go through just to get their games out is incredible and daunting. And each of them have quite a few years of game making experience.

So read up, save up and gear up before you take the plunge dude.
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Netflix?

MidianGTX · Oct 22, 2012

Hambo12 said: ↑

That made me sad but its reality...
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If a post about hard work and determination gets you down, at the very least you're gonna need a team

Eoghann · Oct 22, 2012

Dx_0628 said: ↑

Netflix?
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Yup. It's up on Netflix as well.

Dx_0628 · Oct 22, 2012

Eoghann said: ↑

Yup. It's up on Netflix as well.
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awesome i'll check it out thanks for the heads up

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