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
2. You Heard All The Success Stories On App Store(s)
3. So You Want To Quit Your Day Job?
4. To Be A Full Time Indie Game App Developer?
5. Think Before You Leap!
6. Because You...
7. 1. Got Nobody To Pay You Wage
8. Income != Expense Time to live off the past savings Say goodbye to luxury habits Live a frugal life
9. 2. Own A Million Dollar Baby
10. Hey Dude! “I have an idea, maybe we could partner?” Translation: “You do all the work and give me half the money” @graiz
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
12. 3. Want To Do It All By Yourself
13. Band Of Brothers (Sisters) Great partners do what you can’t Spend extra time with them Know their itches & quirks Friends != Partners
14. 4. Not A ‘Mad Hatter’
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
16. 5. Wanna Make A Fortune At Your 1st Game
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
18. 6. Need Alarm Clocks To Wake You Up
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
20. 7. Hate Getting Along With Yourself
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
22. 8. Have No Family Support
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
24. 9. Follow What They Said
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
26. 10. Born To Be A Shy Guy
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
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
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?
30. Welcome to the Pirate Life! Twitter: @MonkeyPotion Google+: gplus.to/halflucifer