How I Started Making Games - 12 YEARS of Progress!
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Published 2020-12-18
🌲 Wishlist Lumbermill: bit.ly/2JNJLXY
12 years ago I got a license for Adobe Flash CS3, and so my game making journey began... I created pretty terrible flash animations, eventually moving onto games, slowly improving my skills before graduating to Unity. Since then I've made a bunch of projects in Unity, both 2D and 3D - including Lumbermill, my biggest project - an indie management / factory builder game. This video shows my progress over the last 12 years, from total beginner to full-time indie dev. Hope you enjoy!
⮞ About BWDev ⮜
If you're new to the channel, welcome! I'm a full time Indie Game developer working in Unity 2D. Lumbermill is my main project - a management/factory builder game, which I began work on in Feb 2019. I aim to release devlogs on that project every few weeks, so keep an eye out for those!
🌲 Discord: discord.gg/KX5rq78
🌲 Patreon: www.patreon.com/bwdev
🌲 Twitter (BWDev) - twitter.com/bwdev1
🌲 Twitter (Lumbermill) - twitter.com/LumbermillGame
⮞Music ⮜
Backed Vibes (clean) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3409-backed-vibes-cl…
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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All Comments (21)
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Great video, super cool story! Just wanted to say, in case anyone else gets this feeling, you don't have to start young or early to be good or make games. I started programming when I was at the end of high school (17 or 18) and am now a senior programmer at a AAA game studio. The key is to just get in there and start making things and learn!
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Funny that when I was younger I unknowingly played games from both names you went by, and now Im watching your youtube videos :)
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12 years is a long time, but getting started early really helps. I started coding at 12 years old and loved it every since :)
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Super proud of your progress Ben. Can't wait to see where you go in the future! Let's make games for the decades to come 🔥
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I see SimCity 4, I see culture. The same goes for Rollercoaster Tycoon. Brings me a lot of nostalgia.
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you uploaded your first game the day before i was born!
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00:35 ratched and clank is one of my favorite franchises, nice to see other people also played it
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Always so interesting watching these game dev journey videos! Really cool that you started so early, those are some really awesome games you've made!
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Man this got me tearing up, I can see a lot of it reflected in my own game dev journey. Gives me a little hope for what's to come!
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Good video. Awesome seeing where you started to where you are now and how you got there.
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Awesome video! Loved seeing your progress over the years. Keep going!
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Good luck on your journey! Ive started my gamedev journey 4months ago, struggling big time - so it’s nice to see that other people have been through the struggles too. Peace ✌️
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Awesome story and progress, love the fact that you're making a game in the genre that you love. Best of luck with Lumbermill, it looks great :)
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Its awesome too see your GameDev Journey :) We all have this kind of humble start :D
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What a journey! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
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Was gonna wishlist lumbermill, never watched this channel before - already on my wishlist lmfao. Subscribed, looking forward to the release.
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and to think that now you are my favourite dev with a banger game coming out soon
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I'm still trying to keep on working on projects, which I think was super awesome. And I can really relate to your stuff, when I don't have a plan for anything with the game I created, which leads to new projects that I leave, when it's getting harder to make it work as intended
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I love your videos. I always look forward to the new devlogs, and they always make my day. Thank you very much! I can’t wait to play the game when it comes out! 👍👍👍
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You're crushing it! Keep up the great work! Proud patreon member!
