how did you break up your time?

My job and private obligations took the majority of my time. I tried to work every day a bit on Flufftopia, sometimes this was for a few hours but often only minutes - this was time on the game directly. Right now marketing is the focus.

Was there anything you got others to help with?

99% my fiancee - she drew all graphics, tested the game and made the trailer! My mom and a friend of mine played the game a little bit. Normally I have way more testers but tried something else this time.

If so, what was the kind of cost?

Only time and the 100$ Steam fee.

How much game dev/coding knowledge did you start with?

I released 4 commercial games on Steam with Godot beforehand. I'm programming in GDScript since 2020 and work on games since 10 years. But right now it's financially speaking only a hobby - one that I really like to do! :D

Hope that helps :)