How I Started Making Games with No Experience

Vimlark: "does a game engine run on gas" me: "no it runs on human suffering"

As someone who’s interested in becoming a game dev, this is really inspiring ^^;

That’s it. This is the last thing I really needed! I’m going to start my VR dev journey. Thankyou for the inspiration

6:42 (anxiety) "to the point where I was considering not going to this meetup, even when I was sitting in the parking lot of the venue." - I felt that hard. Good job making it happen!

Literally just started to code in Unity and was getting down because I couldnt write code myself but could only follow tutorials. Code is a major demotivator.

You had me at "I have anxiety, to the point where I almost didn't go in, even when I was sitting in the parking lot." Man, do I know that feeling. Now try it with short-term amnesia.

I know I might sound like a dreamer but I really want to make a historical medieval first person hack and slash game with Total War commands like Mordhau and Bannerlord. I know it’s a huge stretch but that’s the end goal hopefully some day I’ll get there

This is one of the most inspiring videos I've ever watched. Thank you so much for this. I'm new to the game design space and one of my biggest hurdles has been feeling overwhelmed about my lack of coding experience. Seeing your journey of how you went from no coding experience to being able to code a game by yourself at your first game jam really did something for me.

As a Graphic Design major with a love for gaming and a very entry level in coding, this video hit RIGHT at home, thank you for this so much, I'm about to start my journey with GDevelop

This video was unbelievably encouraging. Thank you. I have been struggling with finding the right engine, trying things alone but having no where to go to with questions. It’s so nice to learn there are groups/forums/communities out there.

This is lovely to hear how you found a whole community and amazing that you spent so long persistently making stuff, especially over a year of daily art. I just discovered Core, but didn’t realise it’s a creation tool, I haven’t loaded it up yet and they described it more as an arcade full of games. I’ve had an idea for a cat game for ages since I got three kittens last year and they’re hilarious, I don’t suppose there’s a basic cat model to edit. I draw and paint some, but the oomph goes too easily, I just got back into gaming after a while and you saying ‘I was a bored artist’ resonated. I’ve been wanting to do more with characters I was writing a story for too, heck I even learned code a few years ago, but my passion for websites waned and I found I didn’t love battling all my errors enough to keep going. So this all seems fun 😁

You're very inspirational, i'm glad everything turned out so well for you. Keep up the good work, this definetely gave me some motivation to start doing it myself!

The new Don't Explode, looks so much better already, even you have came a long way with pixel art and animation! You're doing a great job 👍

Everytime I see something from you, either videos, or chilling on streams, you are such a boost of motivation. Hopefully one day i'll actually try to submit a game for you to try on stream too :)

I have learned soooooo much from this. Your anxiety issues and drive sound like me in so many ways. I'm pumped to get started. Thanks for the motivation

I'm so happy for you! Thank you for sharing your experience, this was a really uplifting video.

I've been working since circa a week on my first game (a 2D platformer), and I love it... to learn it, pixel the sprites and testing it and getting rewarded when I do something right... thanks for your inspiration

Just found your channel and I've to say I really enjoy your stuff . I'm a computer science student debating myself if I should go down the path of game programming, since it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. Enough to say, your vlogs are really inspiring. Keep'em coming!

This is soooooo inspiring!!! Thank you for sharing and being so candid with your experiences! I am also very introverted and I can really identify with the initial fears that you shared about here. I really want to get my stuff out there too and this has really inspired me to start looking for more feedback even though it's really scary.

randomly found this video after starting my game dev career a month ago. this story was amazing and inspiring as hell, even sounds similar to a path i'd like to take with game jams and the community meetups. love it, subbed!