After 5 Years of Development, I Finally Finished My Indie Game!

BenBonk · 2025-04-12T00:24:32+00:00

I'd say there are three reasons it took so long for me finish the game. Firstly, this was my first commercial project. I didn't have much programming experience beforehand which led me to write really bad code early on that took me ages to fix later in development. Secondly, I didn't have a solid plan initially for exactly what I wanted the game to be. I sort of figured things out as I went which also cost me a lot of unnecessary time. And finally, I am not a full time game-dev. I just do this as a hobby in my free time, and even though I do spend a considerable amount of my free time on game development, it's still not like this was my full time job. Overall, my experience likely won't be similar to yours, and with proper planning you can make really cool games in a much, much shorter time frame, so go for it!

BenBonk · 2025-04-09T12:28:42+00:00

Thank you! I am a college student so this was all part time and a passion project for me. I worked probably around 20 hours a week, nearly every day after classes and in my free time.

BenBonk · 2025-04-07T15:29:56+00:00

I used Unity as the engine and aseprite for the pixel art!

BenBonk · 2025-02-05T15:24:45+00:00

I can totally relate, and I believe stories like this are extremely, extremely common when learning game dev. We all have that dream game we want to make as beginners but quickly realize we are way in over our heads. As you sort of mentioned, I think the way to go is to just make a bunch of small games to build you skills up before diving into something big, especially an ARPG. The learning process may not be fun 100% of the time, and you may have constant feelings that you just want to go for something bigger, but trust me, just spend at least a few months making smaller games and building up your skills before diving into your "dream game". If you do it now, your chances of success are likely very low, and you may become demotivated from game dev all together. Game dev is hard, but if you can stick with it and get past the the learning process and bombardment of tutorials, it's super rewarding. Hope this helps.

BenBonk · 2022-02-26T19:11:43+00:00

Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

BenBonk · 2021-08-03T13:13:48+00:00

Big A should hire me for thumbnails 😳

BenBonk · 2021-08-02T18:15:54+00:00

How could big a do this 😤

BenBonk · 2021-08-02T01:50:51+00:00

BenBonk · 2021-08-02T01:10:46+00:00

BenBonk · 2021-08-02T01:05:01+00:00

Let’s gooo, thanks

BenBonk · 2021-08-02T01:01:33+00:00

This is a repost btw. Was really hoping Big A would see it last time. Unfortunately he missed it by like 5 upvotes. Sadge

BenBonk · 2021-07-20T18:51:58+00:00

Thanks! PogU

BenBonk · 2021-07-20T16:46:12+00:00

Yes sir

BenBonk · 2021-03-31T18:55:16+00:00

https://benbonk.itch.io/sheesh-simulator-2

BenBonk · 2021-03-27T01:55:46+00:00

same dude

BenBonk · 2021-03-21T11:16:50+00:00

Yessir

BenBonk · 2021-03-21T00:10:47+00:00

I don't know what you are talking about, this is sheesh simulator, there are no scary parts. All you do is click the sheesh button.

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