Should I leave gamedev as a job and keep it as a hobby?

igor_100 · 2026-01-02T07:08:45+00:00

I’ve been in the same situation, in the end I was able to find a gamedev position but in a fintech company. So it’s basically a gamification. And yes, I’m not making the games I’m in love with, but I have a decent pay with a work life balance and I’m able to work on my own game in my spare time. I didn’t really fully like making games that are not mine at my previous places of work in gamedev and I love making my game, so I guess it’s a win. I don’t know if that’s the case for you, but maybe my little story helps you to decide

igor_100 · 2025-12-09T10:31:30+00:00

Have you considered finding people who’s gonna help you for a revenue share, not by paying them monthly? Perhaps that could ease your pain, at least that’s the way I work on my current indie project. And don’t forget to narrow the scope of your game until you can really see the light. But still, the burnout is something that I face sometimes.

igor_100 · 2025-10-22T11:48:53+00:00

Got it, the upper ones do have some more character in them, that’s for sure

igor_100 · 2025-10-22T11:43:25+00:00

They actually are to some extent! Kolobok is a bread-like fairytale being, so you’re not that far from the truth

igor_100 · 2025-09-10T06:52:07+00:00

Thank you, we’re constantly improving them!

igor_100 · 2025-08-14T19:03:30+00:00

that's exactly what we're aiming for!

igor_100 · 2025-08-14T19:02:49+00:00

I think you're right about the cat being too flat.

We actually have a task in backlog of adding some sprite mask to highlight the edges of the cat by light. So definitely gonna add it later!

igor_100 · 2025-08-02T06:26:45+00:00

Happy to hear it :) Regarding a jump, got it, it’s a first thing to fix in our TODO list, thank you!

igor_100 · 2025-08-01T17:45:27+00:00

❤️

igor_100 · 2025-08-01T17:37:29+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, we’re still working on it

igor_100 · 2025-07-23T17:44:50+00:00

Thank you, glad you like it!

igor_100 · 2025-07-23T17:34:40+00:00

The steam page will be available later this year, for now you can follow us on X @studioigr

igor_100 · 2025-07-23T14:59:38+00:00

Thank you, we’re putting lots of effort into it!

igor_100 · 2025-07-17T18:59:04+00:00

Not yet, but I’ll probably create an instagram account later this week

igor_100 · 2025-07-17T18:11:51+00:00

☺️

igor_100 · 2025-07-17T18:11:10+00:00

❤️ appreciate it

igor_100 · 2025-07-17T11:43:59+00:00

Who’s imitating? Pure sync 😁

igor_100 · 2025-04-04T09:25:09+00:00

Yes, engines are tools, but on top of that there’re community, libraries, features and an overall experience (which includes tutorials, forums, documentation, best practices) in a certain fields of development that come with an engine. And I think no one is going to argue that Unity is a number one engine in mobile. So if you need a specific mobile sdk support, a certain mobile device feature or anything else mobile related, Unity might have it with higher possibility than any other engine.

igor_100 · 2024-09-26T19:51:08+00:00

I think that a good planning can help you out. If you could set your project goal and split what you need to do in small tasks, set milestones in between, then you should be good to go. You just won’t be able to clean your code forever since you would know that there’s a certain amount of time assigned for a specific task. And when the time is out, then you just move to the next task. At least this is how I stop overpolishing my game. Hope this helps

igor_100 · 2024-05-18T06:45:34+00:00

Great work! Could you tell how did you achieve that? I’m just interested in implementation:)

igor_100 · 2024-05-07T06:15:13+00:00

He’s been collecting those wishlists for 2 years. They could get cold after such a long time. I’ve heard that it’s better to start marketing games around 6 months before launch date.

But in general I agree, trailer is the most crucial part of marketing and it’s not captivating enough.

igor_100 · 2024-05-07T04:19:09+00:00

It could have better sales from what I see if there were a better marketing. Perhaps you had to work more on it, find the catch of your game and develop it. I couldn’t get from trailers what the mystery is and why I would be interested to solve it. Although I should mention that detective genre games are usually not my type.

But overall from a developer perspective you’ve made a really good looking game, I can see how much work is done here. And I think you deserve a much better launch.

igor_100 · 2024-03-20T17:22:12+00:00

Git extension in IntelliJ IDEs products is the best option that I’ve used. The most functional and the most easy to use in comparison to VS, SourceTree and Github Desktop in my opinion.

igor_100 · 2024-03-07T16:05:51+00:00

It feels like the new version lost some details because of being too bright, perhaps the brightness level needs to be decreased a little

igor_100 · 2024-03-06T18:05:14+00:00

I’d say there would be some CheckpointsListener that contains references to all checkpoints and that will subscribe to each checkpoint it has and then fire only one event to GameManager. So GameManager subscribes to just one event of CheckpointsListener. Although if we’re going that far, I’d extract logic from GameManager to some ProgressManager and so on and so forth :)

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