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A hobbyist game developer from Bangladesh. These days I am less active here :3 please follow my work anywhere else it is convenient for you :3

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Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

Lots of people just woke up one day and felt like making games. Now there is a few companies making half assed games and dying out. We can all imagine what someone's first games are like, not to mention everyone overhere only uses unity.

Hence I am not taking Bangladesh game companies into my calculations as one has yet to make anything their but their first mistakes.

How ling ago did you live here? I had had interest since before 2013

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

Its a hard dream to dream indeed. I mean I have known many of your works for years now, and if you have a tough time going commercial and here I am, only a fledgling. Thank you all.

I will try to not put all my eggs in one basket and find less risky ways to work towards commercialism. Even though its a difficult endevour and I live in a place from that is not home to any real success stories yet.

But what can you do about it? :3 that is just life. Got to work with what I have got.

Maybe I will find a way to do my masters abroad.

Edit: Do not have actual access to publishers, or game jams, or game conferences or commercial developers. Are there any publishers who work over the internet entirely?

Edit 2: I have been through a quite a few products form start to finish. All were published for free. Do these count?

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

I would like to gam mak on the side till I have enough money and skills to feel confident about gam making on the front :3 As tasking as university is right now. A full time job is going to be a even more so, must limit the number of hours left to make good, nay great games.

A job takes so much of our time. I do not want to spend a good fraction of my life doing something I don't want to just to get paid, I want to get paid for something that I actually want to do, such as most of my school work :3

Work = fun = better employee = more benefits

Sad part is. Fun for me is the game industry. Will just need to figure it out while making sure to put at least a few eggs in another basket.

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

Lots to think about :/ But I guess I do not have to have all three right from the get go. I might pick 2 and 3. :3 Save up, get connected to people and also keep learning the hands down style so I am better prepared for the all the eking that is headed my way somewhere down the line

How does this sound? :3

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

author=LockeZ
I would settle for knowing how to make four figures.
Wish someone tought me how to make four figures by making games XD

author=dethmetal
I made a topic about RPG Maker games who later went on to develop games professionally; it's sort of relevant so check it out.

https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/22061/
Thank you

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

To SgtMEttool. I understand. I will try to balance things so that I can forever remain flexible, fall back and do something else to pay the bills, and work on games when times are good.

To Blindmind. Thank you.

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

All I ever wanted to do was make video games. Do not want to be a millionaire, but financial security is important to me.

This is the only reason I am, Majoring in Computer Science & Minoring in Marketing against parents, family and society who told me not to. I was a very bad student in school and not much else. But now, have a little above average CGPA, won and participated in various related contests and currently working on my first research paper.

My aspiration turned my world upside down but in a good way. I understand why and what you are advising. But letting go now would invalidate the last five years of my life and put me in the same shoes as all of my school friends, who had chosen security over passion and now are miserable, not to mention a loss of identity and a mandatory 'soul' searching.

I would like to keep this discussion going. Might help in ways we cannot predict. :)

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

I am hesitant to believe you. :3 I mean. I reviewed Wild Thunder for your years ago. Benefit of a doubt.

Hobby to Profession, Looking for success stories

Hello! :)

I would like to know of sources where I can read or see videos of how a hobbyist game developers turned into commercially successful game developers.

Looking for recent,
Recent stories
Starts from there very first game preferably
Discusses the struggles, lessons and even the luck involved

As an undergrad student from Bangladesh, who has been making games and dreaming about making a career out of it for over 7 years, I am really confused about what to do exactly do next. I do not have the access to the resources that people often talk about such as game developer conferences. So I am just looking for some less heard of stories, something closer to home, as I too had started with the RPGMaker engine ;)

Thank you

Aspiring game developer. Life decision dilemma

This helped a lot. Thanks guys. Will do both.