Hi steemians
I am from Czech republic and i am a game developer as a hobbyist. Sometimes i attend game developer meetups in Prague (capital of Czech republic). Some time ago two guys had a presentation about there game - Factorio. It was a presentation about their path, about the challenges they had to face. I will share in short their path, but watch the trailer first.
So there they were standing, in front of a small audience of indie game enthusiasts. One was tall and so slim, you could see his bones, the other one was a bit fat and short. They ended their jobs and developed the game for about 9 months full time, they worked all the time, like 12 hours a day. They were adults, so they faced all the challenges of society, friends and their families were talking them out of programming this stupid game, but they believed and continued. They were depressed, they worked too much, noone believed anyone would buy this game and they already invested so much time in it.
After those 9 months, the ran out of money, so they made a crowdfunding campaign. And guess what, it was sooo bad, they did not raise almost any money, so they gave up. They released the game for free and sent out their CVs to get a job. Because they are good programmers, they had no difficulties in a getting a well paid job.
Suddenly something happend, the people who played the game for free liked it and said they would even pay for it. People got interest in this game after playing it, it was fun. They asked for more features. So the devs made another crowdfunding campaign. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio#/
And it worked out. They are now on steam in early acces with score 10/10 and they are not developing alone anymore, they have already a small team of game developers. It's one of the best games from Czech republic and i am confident saying, it's also on of the best indie games in the world. According to steamspy they have 900,000 owners. The current price is 20$.
In the near future i am going to write another short story about another path of Czech game developers of making a game Machinarium.
Thank you for reading. Peace.