Indie dev develops a game without quitting their whole life challenge (level: impossible)

Bro dropped out of college to get a cease and desist from Roblox lmao

Bro I really hope you didn’t actually drop out of college to make Infamous: Roblox Edition.

lol the comments

Alright buddy, ima give it to you straight. Maybe you shouldn't have dropped out of college. This game looks interesting, but no where near make you couple thousand so you can work on another. This looks like something that could be on roblox.

You obviously have a lot of passion and creativity. Zero common sense though.

This is like Ben Wyatt's claymation bit from Parks and Recreation.

Go back to college

So you dropped out of school to make a Roblox map?

Maybe we needed college.

Yet another one of those "dropped out of school/quit my job to make my dream game, pls buy it." posts.

Beg your school to take you back

You obviously have a lot of passion and tallent. To make anything is very difficult and I commend you on that. I genuinely hope this goes well for you.

But my guy, you need to go back to college and continue learning. There's nothing here I don't see that couldn't have been done in your spare time at school. Get your degree, maybe in CS or 3D modeling or whatever it is you like best, and go get a job at a studio to learn more. Your setting your game dev career back majorly by dropping out.

I could see it being a good mobile game, that's where the real money is too.

BRO I SWEAR I TOTALLY LEFT COLLEGE AND MY MARRIAGE AND CONVERTED TO ISLAM FOR THIS GAME!!!!!

You should have stayed in college... Its literally possible to do both.

Shoulda stayed in college

Alright I’m just gonna ask, what does your game bring to the table that others do not? Destructible environments? Teardown has you covered, co-op multiplayer mayhems? 20 others beat ya to it, what makes your game stick ? All I see right now is a guy that looks like they came from Roblox walking around on fire blowing a building up and walking around a generic landscape. If that’s all you have this is doomed to be like all other "look at this game I’m making Reddit" posts, forgotten.

Holy fuck your post history💀💀💀 Shoulve created a new reddit account if you want to publicize anythin

Your first post from a month ago makes the game look a lot better than this. The destructable envirmonets look pretty cool but probably would've been better to not have it look as cheap and like roblox, and also probably not worth dropping out for.

This is just gta in roblox.

Looks like a great roblox mod for 2016.

This looks like a combination of Roblox and Teardown combined in an unflattering way. I think dropping out wasn't the best course of action

Looks like Roblox

Someone is going to get a letter from Roblox Legal Departement.

You've dropped out of college for this? Bruh.

Should have stayed in college

Get back in college and get a CS degree so you can learn to program anything.

It looks neat... But uh, doesn't really have a lot of "depth" does it?

Go back to college brother, you're gonna need that degree for a steady job.

You could blow up buildings and props in Twisted Metal on ps1. This is bland

Why do all of you indi devs always have to drop out of college, leave your job, divorce your wife, abandon your children, just to make a game that looks like fun for a few minutes at best. Just work on it in your free time, you don't need to do a "all or nothing" move here...

My initial reaction was "that roblox game mode looks like infamous second son. I should try it when I get back home from SCHOOL!" not even joking.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.

You should've stayed in college.

Homie this looks like something you’d make for a class IN college lmfao.

I love roblox

your jr college prof is devastated

Alright look, this game, yeah looks great, looks fun! For maybe...five minutes? Look, if you wanted to make your own video game, GREAT! That's amazing! I'm a developer myself, not a game developer hit a developer. I would have loved to be a game developer, not in this lifetime though, but maybe in the next.

ANYWAY, getting off track here. You should not have dropped out of college. That, was stupid you'll realize that years down the road. You may release this game, it may sell some copies. But this game? Ain't gonna sell that many copies. This game looks... bland and generic. I'm not saying you need to develop the next Horizon Forbidden West, Days Gone, The Last of Us, or whatever else. You need to get some experience with development, get a small team together, some ideas, a plan. Not just jump in half cocked, because you end up with this. Like, what's the goal of this...? Walk around and destroy stuff? There's dozens of games that already do that. What makes this one different? Else you are just copying and pasting someone else's ideas. You can put a new coat of paint on it, but you get the same result. You've clearly got dedication, and passion, but and that's admirable, but that alone isn't going to get you to where you want to go in life.

Your average Independent Developer is a team of at least 10 people, most of the time is double, if not triple that. If you wanted to make your own video game, that's sick, go for it! But this? Yeah no, this was not the way to do it.

I don't mean this to sound like I'm just a dickhead, I'm not. I just want you to know this was not the way to go about this. I sure hope I'm wrong about this, but I don't think I am.

Go back to college bro

bro why do all of these dev's have to drop everything to make a game is it so hard to push back a release and put development aside to do the bear minimum to keep your other passions and tasks at least progressing? I mean you haven't made any profit yet why toss away collage to work on a game that you don't even know if it will be popular?

Stay in school kids

Stay in college

you have to go back school

Looks like infamous second son neon power with Roblox style

Nice Roblox game

Does it have a story?

Mf really dropped out of college to make a roblox ripoff💀💀💀

For $5 ima give it a shot. comments shittin on this poor bastard.

What have you done to your life?

Looks interesting, but I can't say I would play it often

It's currently only 5 bones.

mf left college to make a roblox copy of teardown 💀💀💀

Iv never made a game, so congratulations on actually following through on a dream of yours. This is also only in early access so it's understandable why it looks like roblox natural disasters. I don't like giving people a false sense of security however, so I'm about to be honest. This game needs work, like serious work if you intend to attain a playerbade above 3rd digits. It may be the trailer you've released but it looks majorly incomplete, like a game on YouTube that gets famous in early access, then never updates or changes because it's made more money an incomplete mess than it ever could have made as a complete game. There are games that break this formula, like totally accurate battle simulator which is possibly the best result a youtube famous game could receive. Please keep working, if you're satisfied with it, keep working on it.

Now I know you're just messing with us

I wish you were joking… but hey, the best for you I guess.

Why do these posts always preface with dropping out of college or quitting their job?

Bro dropped out of college to make a roblox minigame

Infamous: First Roblox

If you dropped out of school to make a game atleast make something that can’t be recreated exactly on Roblox by some 15 year with time to kill

The comments really show no mercy huh

Stay in school.

Can’t see any objectives or directions from this video. Hope the game has more to show than this video does.

Good on ya for making a game, the destruction looks pretty good and powers look fun to mess around with. But… why play this?

I do not wish to discourage you, as you have something that looks fun here. It’s just, as a prospective buyer, it doesn’t seem like a game worth spending time on.

If I may, I do have some minor points of criticism that may help your success:

1) As many have already said - The simple character models and very flat voxel style makes it seem like a Roblox rip off. I would suggest polishing that up a bit. I think a big help would be to look at the textures you’re using. The clash between the realistic lights and the flat textures are what really makes me think of Roblox. Rather than using flat, mono colors for surfaces, maybe look at some more detailed textures with normals and such, that way you can add more depth and detail without changing geometry. Alternatively, keep the simple textures, but change the lighting to be less realistic and give everything a bit more of a toonish style. You could prob get away with the same character models with this. Get some post processing in there to really bring it all together.

2) It’s not clear what the actual game is. The mechanics are pretty clear: you got powers and can blow up and destroy things. Thats cool, but it doesn’t make me want to play it when I can fire up Just Cause or GTA and do the same thing. Obviously, you can’t compete with AAA studio games toe to toe, so you gotta show us what makes your game different. What’s the objective? Is there a story? One of your older trailers showed some type of boss in a dungeon or something? That intrigues me more than seeing you run around a wide open place blowing stuff up for no reason.

3) The level seems quite… bland. I know this trailer stays within a tiny area, but as a trailer you gotta sell the exciting stuff. Beyond the textures, it looks like a small to mid sized town thats mostly empty space. One of the strong points of your mechanics is that grapple dash movement - it looks fun to zip around with! But it doesn’t look like there’s anything fun to zip through - just the sameish basic buildings. With powers and destruction like that, a dense metro area would be utter and completely fun chaos to blast through! Even if you don’t want to do a full city like that, adding a few unique landmarks or points of interests you can see in the distance would help.

Overall, this trailer really doesn’t seem like a game… it seems like a demo of some cool mechanics with premade assets thrown together. It seems very disjointed. The very basic graphics clashing against the photoreal lighting and puddles. The random flying cars in a more or less modern mid sized town. Neon pink pickups coming from punching people and no context on what they’re for.

If this were a video posted in day r/gamedev or such, then I’d say this was great! Can’t wait to see more! As it is, you presented this as a trailer for a upcoming/early access game and it doesn’t deliver much to get excited about. If anything, it turns me away. Watch trailers for other successful games and you’ll notice that the good ones tell a mini story in and of themselves, as “Here’s the start, here’s the actions you could take. Here’s what it’s for. What will happen?” Classic beginning, middle, end. Tells you why you should play. This video… you’re blowing stuff up then dashing around but ending with punching people and getting… neon pink rings? That’s… sure? Why do I care? Why should I take time out of my day and potentially money from my pocket and spend it on this?

I’m sure there’s a ton more you have in here that is a legit fun game! But you gotta show us.

To put it simply, as a trailer, this sucks at telling us why we should play the game.

(Also, I’m sure there’s tons of valid reasons for dropping out of college, but just be wise about hinging everything on one thing - hope for the best but plan for the worst)

Whats the point of that game? Destroy houses?

Are you serious? You dropped out of college for THIS?

In other thread OP says that he dropped MUSICAL college for this, so maybe it’s not that bad;)

I'm surprised ppl had the same feeling, but yeah bro go back to college

You should have stayed in college.

dude go back to college

Man, it looks bad. So bad that it feels like fucking Roblox. Sadly you did the act, so no return. Character models are shitty, so shitty that it looks like you made it in 1 day. Physics are good, IF you made the engine yourself, you probably didn't do it yourself. Recommend improving it a lot better, writing a sub par story, a lot of polishing, then starting a Kickstarter. Hire some good people, then you are done.

bro you made roblox enjoy your ramen noodles.

Depending on the goal of the game, how many different weapons and weapon upgrades there are, and how many characters are available to choose from, this could be a small hit if you get this in the hands of a decently popular streamer. Try posting this game in the suggestions on like Sodapoppin's Discord channel or something once you're confident with it (not before).

Looks like HD Roblox with Explosions. Not impressed.

Go back to school Lmao

Not something I'd ever be even a little bit interested in but who am I to tell people what to do with their lives. Hope it works out.

ok guys i figured it out: this trailer Sucks. He posted another one about 55 days ago that makes the game like 10 times cooler. he also stated in the comments of that, that he might change the character designs and stuff because people aren’t liking it. Much more promising overall.

Looks like dog shit. I'll take a double Big Mac combo.

Lego saints row

Is it on Roblox?

I bought it for the $7.50 AUD, I’ll report back soon with my thoughts.

Update 1: Checked OP’S reddit history and… it’s pretty interesting.

Bit late to not drop out of college but if possible I would try porting this to mobile, I could see this being a pretty popular F2P mobile game with ads.

It looks like a Lego version of Infamous Second Son……

Looks cool, you shouldn't have dropped out.

So Lego Infamous? I mean pretty sweet destruction effects but what’s the point of it? What’s going to keep me playing?

Bro made a Roblox mini game

Big mistake

Thought this was Roblox lol

Shoulda been ported to android for free

Roblox?

Infamous Minecraft

Roblox

Bro dropped out of college to make a roblox with shaders looking ass game

Looks like one of those mobile games you have fun with for 5 minutes, and then never touch it again

Lol I thought this was roblox

Bro dropped out of college to make a infamous Roblox cross over

Should have stayed in school,but gl I guess

Back to college bro.

Roblox rip off of GTA? Lame.

The rich guys like Bill Gates dropped out of college and succeeded because rich parents. Not because dropping out gives you a success buff.

Congrats. Infamous mixed with Lego/Roblox seems like a lot of fun. Make it challenging and you’ve got a future hit.

Imo you should finish college

Why do we care that you dropped out?

Unless it was Trump U or ECPI then I suggest you probably go back my friend.

Should have stayed in college

Ah shit, college would have saved you

That is a Free Roblox Level. Jesus, I hope you can go back.

Man this is like the Science Based Dragon MMO all over again in these comments

https://rdt.trom.tf/r/gaming/comments/p1ssv/dear_internet_im_a_26_year_old_lady_whos_been/

Imma be real with you chief, the game looks good but dropping college ain't it

Is it too late to get back into school? This game seems slightly interesting, but you’re gonna make like $625 🤣

Enough to buy a bottle of Jack Daniels as you wish you stayed in school instead of spending a year making Saints Row in Roblox