Dee Dah Dave
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In this case, I think it would be better to join a team of game developers, and I have seen a lot of job positions on linkedin for all areas of game development and you can work remotely. You should try it. I am not very good with programming, but I have a general game development knowledge on all areas, but not specialist on any specific area. Like you give me some assets and I build an entire game out of it.
Why not do some smaller projects that you are passionate about, which will help you learn a lot, instead of caring about making money even before starting?
Don’t focus on the money, focus on having fun making your own game. I’ve been making games since the 80s, all are crap and only one got an actual ending, one has been in development on and off for nearly 20 years, still loving fiddling with them.
Currently working on a simple platformer made in Unity with the platformer template, drawing everything by hand on the iPad, kids come up with enemy designs. The Unity community is very helpful when you need C# help and there are assets for almost everything if you don’t want to make everything by yourself. Check HumbleBundle for nice collections of useful dev content.
I already do program for my job, mostly embedded systems written in C for factory machinery, plus some PLC ladder logic stuff. I have also played around in my spare time for years with various little ideas for games and stuff.
Working with others is not going to be a thing because I no doubt make more money doing what I do now. But if I could land on a great idea then I could split my time in half between my current work and a game. But as I said I have no great ideas to make it financially worth it
And yes if I was to come up with something, I would probably use Unity which I’m already very familiar with.