Why I Spend 14 Hours A Day Making My Indie Game

What is it about making games that always results in crunch and delays? ► Learn how to make a game studio from your bedroom, free: https://www.fulltimegamedev.com/opt-in-how-to-make-six-figures ► Wishlist Twisted Tower: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1575990/Twisted_Tower/ ► What I believe: https://youtu.be/jQK3LniPMq4 Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction: The Grind of Indie Game Development 00:00:21 The Inevitable Reality of Delays, Crunch, and Burnout 00:01:23 Webinar: How to Go Full-Time with a Polished Demo 00:02:14 Why Games Get Delayed: From AAA to Indie Examples 00:03:09 The Helen Keller Analogy: Game Devs and Missing Sensibilities 00:03:59 Essential Skill Sets in Game Development 00:07:46 Relying on Yourself, Teammates, and Testers 00:16:14 The Root Cause: You Don't Know What You Don't Know 00:17:32 The IKEA Furniture Metaphor: Keeping Screws Loose 00:21:39 Examples of Premature Commitments in Twisted Tower 00:28:01 Experience, Genre Knowledge, and Normalizing Crunch 00:35:27 Final Advice, Outro, and Webinar Reminder