I Made a Game in Unreal in 14 Days... (No Experience)

going from "I gave myself 2 weeks to make a really simple concept" to "I spent $80 on physics and weather plugins instead of implementing gameplay" is the quintessential solo game dev experience

"until I got distracted literally 7 seconds in and watched a 2 hour long podcast" classic.

who else is procrastinating by watching this video right now?

As a professional game designer who has worked on AAA Games, the parts where you go "why isnt this working?!" then realize its a button press hit home lol. Keep it up man, love the video.

Careful EA or Ubisoft might try and hire you as the way things are going you might be the most experienced person they have.

As someone who has been developing games for nearly 5 years, my biggest bit of advice would be to focus on the core systems before anything else. Example core systems being, (attacking, taking damage, dodging, health, enemy movement, ai movement). Polish and design can always come later.

I started into Unreal like 2 weeks ago, with the mission of making my own game and god I can relate to this video. Excited to see how you progress, and appreciate you sharing the roadblocks and solutions. The biggest lesson I’ve learnt so far is to stay focused on one aspect at a time, which is super hard when you keep finding shiny videos on how to do “cool” things in UE. I’ve now made myself just save videos and not watch them until I’m finished with what I’m working on before getting distracted 😅

This is honestly very inspiring. I've played games all my life and have always wondered about making my own game but fearing that it was just writing lines of code all day. Seeing you with the same passion and going out and chasing it is awesome. Love the video!

Being a game dev over 10+ years. I would like that every single person who stated "making games is easy", "that's not working, you're just playing a game" (or any other comment understimating game developers) to watch this. It is HARD WORK to make games. I felt your struggle, same thing happen to me years ago, but over time, you will know how to save and manage your time better. Keep on going, once you get that satisfaction of seeing your game working, and other people enjoying it, is addictive.

This is something that I can't help but admire. As someone who has tried to get back into programming and learning it only to give up after a few days, I can relate to the frustrations and glimpses of hope you get when actually managing to make something work as you imagined. I also love how you show the "mistakes" and how your attention can only hold for so long until something else grasps it away. I truly hope you continue with this and actually start producing great games, since you have a creative mindset and a vision what you are aiming towards.

this was so cool!! good video and story telling

Man, I really really appreciate this video. I have been trying to learn game dev in the same exact way, I feel like I just watched a video of myself. Except for one key difference, you kept with it. I've hit all these different levels of frustration and given up and revisited over and over. Sometimes I get so discouraged I start thinking I'm the only one that runs into these problems and that I'm incapable. Oddly enough I found your video "Getting distracted" but it was exactly what I needed to see at this moment. I forget we all learn and experience the same difficulties and I need to power through and continue to learn. Thank you for the gentle reminder that we all struggle in the same ways but gotta push through to see progress. Thank you for your time, your humor, and your complete honesty. Great video and i'll be subscribing for more to follow you along this journey!

There's your studio name... "Just a horse games"

The ending made me happy. A true testament to the saying “finished over perfect.” Nice job!

I love this so much. I've been exploring the possibility of getting into game development, and the fact that you did this in 2 weeks is amazing. You've given me the push to just go with it and try it out

I love that you also talked about the problems that you stumbled on in game and life, not many people talk about this, and they tryna make it seem like they didn t put that effort into making something. cuz now everyone shows only the succes. and it also helps others, they can also learn from your mistakes, or simphatize with with like see that they have those problems, struggles too. it isn t just them(cuz that s how social media makes us think cuz they show only the succes). so Thank You!

Good luck on your journey. In case you don't know, Astlibra and Chained Echoes are 2 of the most amazing JRPGs and both were made by one guy.

You learned so fast! I loved how everything turned out. I'm happy my tutorials were helpful! ❤

Really good realization at the end, I'm sure this experience will help you in other places in life too! I did a solid run for a few years on game development, still had no real product after to show for it, but many mini projects, lots of learning, and lots of fun along the way. I dont regret it at all, and am still interested in revisiting the hobby in the future!

This was a great watch! I hope you do extremely well in this endeavor and come out of it better then ever!