A Game Developer's journey to $5,000 a day!

v3ctor · Jan 4, 2014

Hello BHW,

Let me introduce myself. My name is Martin and I live in Hungary, a small country in the heart of Europe. I'm doing internet marketing for more than 4 years now and I had both pretty successful and unsuccessful businesses in the past. My other passion besides internet marketing is developing games, especially for handheld devices (iOS, Android).

Until a few months ago, I was making a LOT of money from my websites but I got lazy and everything collapsed. I got depressed, and I lost all my inspiration because of it but I knew it was my fault.

In the past few weeks, I started to feel inspired again. I wanted to make something big, I wanted more... wanted to make MONEY again! And I thought why not do this with something I love to do...? Developing games! And then, I started to WORK all day and night to make this happen.

I started this thread to keep my inspiration, inspire others, and to book my goals and progress.

PLANS

Release AT LEAST one game every month, but keep in mind: "quality over quantity"

PROGRESS

Games released: 0 (releasing the first one in the next week)

Revenue per day: $0

Total installs: 0

GOALS AND "MINI GOALS"

$25/day
$50/day
$100/day
$500/day
$1,000/day
$2,500/day
MAIN GOAL - $5,000/day

Also:

- my goal is making STABLE income.
- expose this business, start a company, hire other people to make a great team, open a STUDIO

Thanks for reading my post and following my journey, I hope you will enjoy!

v3ctor · Jan 4, 2014

I will finish my first game in this journey in a few days, and publish it on the next week! Wish me luck! I hope you will enjoy my journey!

The SEO · Jan 4, 2014

Good luck for your journey, and let me tell you one thing its first journey on BHW who makes money with developing a game.

sam.hunt0710 · Jan 4, 2014

Wishing you great success in life mate.

ahead · Jan 4, 2014

Wow! I am also in somewhat similar situation. I was in the IM field previously but then took a break due to offline work. Now I am again trying to get started.

You have a pretty interesting goal. Best wishes from my side! Keep us posted.

Roshaen · Jan 4, 2014

Good luck with your journey.Looking forward to your games as well.

Wootey · Jan 4, 2014

Goodluck. Developing games for Android & iOS is profitable if you do it in the right way, even a very simple games or apps with good quality, it will work. Do you code by yourself alone?

divok · Jan 4, 2014

on what platform are you building ? Subscribing ... this quite different journey .

v3ctor · Jan 4, 2014

Wootey said:
Goodluck. Developing games for Android & iOS is profitable if you do it in the right way, even a very simple games or apps with good quality, it will work. Do you code by yourself alone?

I'm doing this alone.

ahead said:
Wow! I am also in somewhat similar situation. I was in the IM field previously but then took a break due to offline work. Now I am again trying to get started.

You have a pretty interesting goal. Best wishes from my side! Keep us posted.

Good luck to you as well!

DTjai · Jan 4, 2014

Good luck to you as we always need quality games as gamers.

1337python · Jan 4, 2014

I'll be following this journey, games are a really profitable thing too! I hope you make your goal!

v3ctor · Jan 4, 2014

Thanks guys! Can't wait to push out the first game!

wiso4151 · Jan 4, 2014

Why just 5000 dollar ? Get big like Clash of Clans and make millions a day with mobile games....

SocialMediaManager · Jan 4, 2014

Would have been better if you had posted goals in milestones about what you are developing stating challenges
wishing you best of luck with your journey

v3ctor · Jan 4, 2014

wiso4151 said:
Why just 5000 dollar ? Get big like Clash of Clans and make millions a day with mobile games....

I didn't say I wouldn't stretch my goals once I reach it.

SocialMediaManager said:
Would have been better if you had posted goals in milestones about what you are developing stating challenges
wishing you best of luck with your journey

There will be more information in this thread regarding the games as well.

SEOverlord · Jan 4, 2014

This could be big. I've got a friend who is a programmer and we hope to delve into the phone app/games market soon. Have to figure out where to start.

Good luck!

Deathrow · Jan 4, 2014

So you want to make 1.2 mill a year?

Lol, good luck with that bro. I'm currently making 300k a year. I'm only 18. In like 5 years, I will be making around 800k a year. I also have a business partner I do everything with that makes these amounts also. I can't even imagine what I'll be making in something like 20 years. xD

I think you can do it if you work hard enough. Stay dedicated. Even if it takes a year or two, I think you can still do it.

What I'm currently doing took a year of planning, working flaws out, etc. So don't give up early if it's not going well

seosky · Jan 4, 2014

This is first time I am reading a Game Developer Journey...I read lots of Journeys here at BHW in last few weeks, Took all my time to reading and planning and Testing. As I was also in almost same condition. Anyways, Good luck with your Journey.

pirke · Jan 4, 2014

Best of luck to you man
I'm also a developer and I just started to create games with unity for mobile platforms.
If you want exchange experiences PM me.

cindyrose888 · Jan 4, 2014

Lower your expectations $5 per day and you will feel better....No stress...lol

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