If you're looking to make your dream game but don't want to start doing random games first, you could do simple prototypes from a focused area of the game. Let's say you want to make a Space Sim game. Alright what does a space sim game have: * Flying and Combat * Economy and Trading * Inventory Management, equipment * Skills and Attributes * Ship AI, NPCs and Dialogue * Hyperspace Travel, System Layout Ok, pick the most important part like Flying and Combat and start working on it. You'll be surprised how complex that single thing is and how much work that needs. Is it not working out, or isn't fun? No problem, try doing a different thing. Make a game entirely around trading with very simple interaction and little to no graphics. If it's going great, maybe release that as a standalone game.

Thank you im just starting to learn game dev and i really appreciate this

Very good video. For me I did the exact reverse. I developed a 3D game with a ball in Unity, then went to 2D and was trying to make it more and more simple. Eventually simple games done right started to click and had much more players. Nowadays I only suggest game engines, because doing your own engine is frighteningly difficult. Plus you got everything already pre-made. In Unreal you do not even need to do any coding if you use blueprints. I also tried using Construct 2 and was very easy to work with and didnt require any coding.

Hey dude I absolutely love the video, this is so perfect because I was an avid watcher of ur channel before and recently I've been learning code! Thank you!

@apoxfox

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That’s awesome man, I wish you luck on your journey!!

holy shit i found your channel from the mysims video and suddenly i just came across the best advice of my college career!??? thank you!???

@apoxfox

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Haha really hope it helps! Also us MySims fans are far and few between, very surprised how many people also loved those games growing up :)

I haven't been on KZread as much lately... Awesome video! (as always). Almost 14k subs, jeez Glad I've been around to watch the channel grow

@apoxfox

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Great to hear from you man! Hope life is treating you well :)

Great video man!! Keep it up, just started game developing, thanx for helpping

This is great advice. Lost my way a while back because of my scope, but this has reinspired me to dig into it again and stsrt small. Thank you.

@apoxfox

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Starting small is easy, it’s the keeping things small that’s hard. Good luck!!

Apox fox is back baby!!

When you said "one day I decided I wanted to make games" ... had you done any programming or software development at that point?

@apoxfox

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Nope I really had no idea what I was getting myself into haha. I’ve been making art and animations since I was little but other than that I was going in pretty blind

Thanks!

Where should i start my lewrining should i watch youtube or maybe buy course on udemy or where else?

@apoxfox

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I would start with KZread tutorials first to see if you like it. If you end up falling in love try out Udemy, that’s what I did :)

@phoneaddiction

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@@apoxfox ok thanks can you send mw courses that you did or recommend any i alrd watched alot of videos on yt but only know some basic stuff i wanna try on udemy

@apoxfox

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@@phoneaddiction sure, but it really depends on what you want to make. I make 2d unity games so I took a course called “2D Unity for beginners”. I would just browse a bit and look at the reviews, I’m sure you’ll find something that works!