Why You Shall Not Quit Your Day Job To Make A Game App

Because you...

1. Got Nobody To Pay You Wage
2. Own A Million Dollar Baby
3. Want To Do It All By Yourself
4. Not A ‘Mad Hatter’
5. Wanna Make A Fortune At Your 1st Game
6. Need Alarm Clocks To Wake You Up
7. Hate Getting Along With Yourself
8. Have No Family Support
9. Follow What They Said
10. Born To Be A Shy Guy

Think before you leap!

Transcript

1. Why You Shall Not Quit
   Your Day Job To
   Make A Game App
   Lucifer Jheng
   for a! aspiring indie game developers
   

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2. You Heard All The
   Success Stories
   On App Store(s)
   

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3. So You Want To Quit
   Your Day Job?
   

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4. To Be A Full Time
   Indie Game App
   Developer?
   

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5. Think Before
   You Leap!
   

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6. Because You...
   

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7. 1. Got Nobody To Pay You Wage
   

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8. Income != Expense
   Time to live off the past savings
   Say goodbye to luxury habits
   Live a frugal life
   

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9. 2. Own A
   Million Dollar Baby
   

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10. Hey Dude!
    “I have an idea, maybe we could
    partner?”
    Translation: “You do all the work and
    give me half the money” @graiz
    

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11. Value = Idea * Execution
    Don’t ask people to sign an NDA first
    A great idea is worth a million
    dollars
    ...Only if it can be well executed
    @sivers
    

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12. 3. Want To Do It All
    By Yourself
    

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13. Band Of Brothers
    (Sisters)
    Great partners do what you can’t
    Spend extra time with them
    Know their itches & quirks
    Friends != Partners
    

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14. 4. Not A ‘Mad Hatter’
    

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15. Multidisciplinary
    “Small games need generalists” --
    Adam Saltsman
    Not just making a good game and then
    profit
    Get your noble hands dirty
    Know your audience: you won’t be able
    to please everyone
    

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16. 5. Wanna Make A Fortune At
    Your 1st Game
    

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17. Lessons To Learn
    You won’t hit the nail on the head in
    your 1st, 2nd & 3rd game
    Don’t make your dream game yet
    Budget for at least 3 games
    Don’t forget to count in the living
    costs
    

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18. 6. Need Alarm Clocks To
    Wake You Up
    

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19. Self-Discipline
    No reveille to wake you up every
    morning
    You are your own boss!
    ...And that’s the real problem
    Enjoy your free time but not too much
    

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20. 7. Hate Getting Along With
    Yourself
    

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21. You Are Alone
    No peers to talk to, gossip & flirt
    with
    You’ll have many toys causing
    distraction & procrastination
    Motivation: easy to lose, hard to
    recover
    

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22. 8. Have No Family
    Support
    

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23. Relationship Matters
    Try to convince your beloved ones
    Unconditional love will get you
    through the hard time
    Put out the fire before it burns you
    down
    Career can be rebooted, life can’t
    

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24. 9. Follow What They Said
    

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25. A Hundred Shining
    Faces
    A million sad songs underneath
    Stories they won’t tell & you won’t
    hear
    Go nowhere by just reading &
    listening stuff
    Don’t chase the fad
    

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26. 10. Born To Be A
    Shy Guy
    

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27. Outside The Box
    Speak up your mind
    Join and/or build a community
    Don’t be afraid to flop -- It won’t
    be the first & the last
    No Secret Era: Honesty goes a long
    way
    

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28. Final Notes
    Make at least one game app when you
    have a day job
    If you can’t make it now, you won’t
    make it tomorrow
    If everything needs to be 100% ready
    before taking action
    You can do nothing at all
    

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29. My Q & Your A
    How long can you live without income?
    When the going gets tough, will you
    give up?
    If you were going to fail, would you
    still go for it?
    

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30. Welcome to the
    Pirate Life!
    Twitter: @MonkeyPotion
    Google+: gplus.to/halflucifer
    

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