Accountability thread

[Zygmunt]

As of today 2023, January 8th I finished reading UNSCRIPTED . I am creating this thread as an accountability tool and to mark my progress. My goal by the end of the year is to have made at least 1,000 euros through a business or side hustle, preferably game development or web development. I'm a student so the only opportunity to work on my business is on the weekends / school holidays. I am currently maybe 60%-70% done on my first game that I plan to sell on steam, but I'm still not sure of how that's going to go, especially on the legal side of things like copyright and having a corporate entity, but I plan to figure it out when the time comes. I've actually stopped production for like 3 months now because I was procrastinating, but I'm going to resume as soon as I'm done with a programming competition in the upcoming days, for which I am preparing, and I believe that it might not be getting me closer to my business, but the programming skills I learn from it will be beneficial.

BTW, here's a sneak peek of my game:

Might even become a youtuber

 

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[Spenny]

This game reminds me a lot of a flashgame I used to play about a decade ago. Is this inspired?

Good to post man. Welcome to the forum.

 

[Zygmunt]

This game reminds me a lot of a flashgame I used to play about a decade ago. Is this inspired?

Good to post man. Welcome to the forum.

Yes indeed it is , It's my favourite

 

[Spenny]

Yes indeed it is , It's my favourite

Mhmmm thought so, any chance you can add something onto it to make it better than the original?

And what are your goals for next week?

 

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[constant]

Reminds me of the flash game Boxhead

 

[savefox]

at least 1,000 euros through a business or side hustle, preferably game development or web development.

Does the goal of making $3 per day really motivate you? You won't achieve it if it doesn't. Think bigger

 

[Zygmunt]

Mhmmm thought so, any chance you can add something onto it to make it better than the original?

And what are your goals for next week?

graphics wise maybe, adding more guns, and even later a shop and inventory system. I built a prototype shop and inventory but it didnt work and I had to scrap that idea for later. next week I should be finally more free to start working on it. Firstly id like to get the main game mechanics down before I touch graphics and menus and such. So I need to make the scoreboard look better, add a killing streak, explosive barrels, landmines.

 

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[Zygmunt]

Does the goal of making $3 per day really motivate you? You won't achieve it if it doesn't. Think bigger

You know its like contradictory advice everywhere like aim for millions but also divide that into smaller goals so I really dont know what I should aim for.

 

[savefox]

You know its like contradictory advice everywhere like aim for millions but also divide that into smaller goals so I really dont know what I should aim for.

Set a realistic, but challenging goal. You know, making $1000 through your own business is just as hard as making $10000. Once you know how to make the $1000, you just repeat it 10 times, 20 times, 100 times and so on.

 

[Spenny]

Set a realistic, but challenging goal. You know, making $1000 through your own business is just as hard as making $10000. Once you know how to make the $1000, you just repeat it 10 times, 20 times, 100 times and so on.

This is a load of old bollocks. You need to start somewhere, and no, $10,000 is not just as hard as $1,000. They are different. That difference is that you need to first get to $1,000 before getting to $10,000.

This is mixing up goals and aspirations.

Aspire for $10,000
Have a goal for $1,000.

To you it may not seem difficult, but this guy may have never made that amount of money from a business. Having a goal of $10,000 is likely unrealistic and unmotivating.

 

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[savefox]

This is a load of old bollocks. You need to start somewhere, and no, $10,000 is not just as hard as $1,000. They are different. That difference is that you need to first get to $1,000 before getting to $10,000.

This is mixing up goals and aspirations.

Aspire for $10,000
Have a goal for $1,000.

To you it may not seem difficult, but this guy may have never made that amount of money from a business. Having a goal of $10,000 is likely unrealistic and unmotivating.

$10000 in a year from a business or sidehustle is unrealistic? He has 12 months to make that. That's like $800 per month. $25 per day. You can make it by designing $10 logos on fiverr or something. That might be a little challenging for a person who's never done that before but that's the goal. Why would you aim for 80 bucks per month?

 

[Zygmunt]

New update: Haven't worked on the game at all recently, but I have started to learn HTML. With a friends help I set up my own website from scratch. What is especially awesome is the GitHub students pack that offers a bunch of free services for students like a free domain name and cloud services, courses and what not so If you're a student I recommend applying for it.