It's better to stop than to work through something you dislike

its cool man, you'll cook up something new and better, being passionate about what you create is important and i'd rather wait way longer for something you actually want to create rather than something that has no personality in it.

Saw that coming as soon as you named it "Booty Blastin'"

I understand, Garbaj. I'm glad you didn't finish the project under circumstances where you were unhappy. I know you'll still create cool things and videos and whatnot :>

Could tell from the start. There was a general disinterest. A long hiatus of devlogs. A lot of direction changes both mechanically and artistically. A lot of promises and little progress on the game. I'm not trying to criticise, i am genuinely interested in how it felt, we could learn from it. Many developers don't have the luxury of any funding besides their work so what went wrong. Was this a one person effort? Many of us offered help in the comments but only got ignorance.

Scrapping a project is understandable. However, the moment people begin financially backing your project, it isn't.

nooo! thanks for taking us on the development journey. learned a lot from the experience and respect your decision to make this call. looking forward to what’s next. 🕹️

Dude I was a patron member for awhile now and I am glad you stopped the payments but I want my money back.

it's almost like working on an extraction shooter inspired by Apex Legends is one of the most mentally taxing things imaginable or something

Well I called this right from the start. It was blatant the project was way too ambitious and it could be seen from your videos that you had totally the wrong mindset while making the game. You just seemed WAY too overconfident and acting like you knew what you were doing while prioritizing obviously the wrong things at the wrong times, such as talking about having multiplayer when you barely even had the basic gameplay underway. But hey you did well from it so who am I to criticise.

Sorry to hear about the passion dying. Would you consider open sourcing the code?

of course we will support anything you do, you have built a community, we do understand. It's nice to just be sincere with these things

Remember the start when I said, scale too big.

sorry but I could see this from a mile away, you've worked on this for more than a year and I would always be surprised by how little progress was being made and what things you were working on. Whenever a game idea is vague, too ambitious or both, it's usually safe to assume the game will never see the light of day. If you really want to finish a game, start extremely small. You have to be able to make progress extremely quickly to remain motivated and to truly gain maturity on how to plan a game. Regardless, I'm very glad you stopped early on in the game's development instead of forcing this on yourself. If you ever get back to making a full game I would emphasize again on keeping it extremely small scale and make your moves fast, make visual changes fast, add features fast and remain motivated. By the time you've finished 2-3 of these small games you will naturally gain maturity about the whole process and be in a position to tackle more ambitious projects. Good luck, you made the right choice. Keep going.

Garbaj moment...

Who could've seen that coming

bro took everybodys money and dipped amazing work man I look up to you🤣🤣🤣🤣

I guess that project _Puts on sunglasses_ Is going in the bin *YEEEEAAAAAAHH*

This is actually very courageous of you. My number 1 advice for new game developers is that quitting your long-term project can actually be a healthy thing. I have genuine trauma from spending literal years and thousands of hours of work on a project I didn’t like only the end up scrapping it in the end. It is important to finish a game, but if you’re new to game development then you will be making many mistakes and learning so many new things that it won’t be long before you outgrow your old techniques, code, infrastructure, etc. and start seeing that you could do so much more if you just start again. So how do you finish a project if you’re destined to keep learning new things and finding better ways to develop your game? The trick is to pay attention to your dev cycle. How long does it normally take before you get to the point where you start wanting to refactor everything? That is how long you want the development of your game to last. So yes, this means in the beginning it is better to focus on smaller games just because you won’t have to refactor a ton of things along the way. You will finish many more games this way and you’ll still be learning a ton on the way. My personal rule of thumb is to take a lenient “only program it once approach.” This means that whatever limitations I create for myself I try to stick with. This approach also helps with avoiding scope-creep because at some point I am locked into creating content that works with the systems I already have. Personally for booty-blastin, I would have stuck with the early guns and maybe thrown together a few levels for the player to move and fight through. It’s not entirely interesting but you could call the game complete at some point. Another thing to notice is that you’ve created a pretty huge audience for this game and that is a really difficult thing to do. You’re in a really good position to have a successful second game Gl Hf

I really enjoy your outlook on games in general, so will definitely be sticking around for any future content!

NO GARBAJ WHATS GOING ON WE NEED AN EXPLANATION

Though I think the project was destined to fail from the beginning because of the saturated genre, I still had a lot of fun watching the series. The insights into solo game dev you gave were inspiring. I am excited for your next adventure !!

Good on you man! Keep up the awesome content!

makes sense, it never seemed to have any identity and it seemed like you were making it for the sake of making a game

I have to say; this is so typical. I loved your tutorials, but when you say "I'm gonna maka a FPS game", then we all know it is the usual stuff of implementing some mediocre features, then shutting down.

It is ok man we’ll keep watching your devlogs of new games

Hey man, thanks for all that you have done - it's an absolute pleasure watching your videos, I have learned so much from you! I hope you're ok, and all the best with whichever direction you choose to go in. All the best!

hell yeah, throw it in the garbaj

Sad to hear, but gotta work on what you feel passionate about. Good on you for not phoning it in

It was a good journey to follow, i hope you learned a lot from it. I certainly did. I hope you find a project you find motivation for!

Takes a lot of courage to do this! Proud of you! Looking forward to your future

To be completely honest, i saw it long ago. The image of the original game and what was released are drastically different. Whole game is more of compromise between what you want and what you could. Its perfectly normal to be disappointed in you first projects and give up on them. Its actually kinda healthy! You learn, improve, and the mistakes you made won't be repeated! Don't force yourself to complete a lost cause, move on and be happy buddy! No one will be mad because you didn't release the game.

Not surprised

Loved watching the gameplay and dev updates. Keep up the cool stuff!

loved watching the development, and i'll love watching whatever you make next! what's best for you is what you should do!

You're completely fine! No point continuing a project that you don't enjoy 💜

Really?? I get that you lost interest in creating the game but you accepted people's money SPECIFICALLY for the development of this game!! That is just theft at this point, I'm really disappointed Garbaj...

That must have been a tough video to make. Nice to see the reactions are pretty wholesome! Looking forward to more videos.

I hope you find something that you can be happy giving your dedication to. It'll be exciting watching what you have planned next!

"I realized I wasn't getting enough money for something that took 12 minutes to make"

man im gonna be honest i never saw why people got interested in the game, and frankly the demo sucked. i never saw potential in the game itself. but i loved the content on it as it was entertaining to see you figure out what you wanted to make. let's just hope the next project will get better as you've learnt a lot with this one

Always appreciate the fully transparent comms! Looking forward to seeing what comes next (whether it's another project, or more video content, or whatever else)!

It was very cool getting to see the development journey, getting as far as a demo is a pretty big accomplishment, so great job.

You gotta do what makes you happy. We've all seen uninspired games the devs hated working on and no one wants you to have to go thru that. Its unfortunate but for the best if that's how youre feeling. Maybe youll come back to it in the future. Regardless im sure you learned a lot you can use in other projects.

Hypes up a project, posts almost daily on it, acts like an AAA Developer, Cancels Great job

I was here since 20k and this makes me so sad, but I will stay here for you

When I subscribed, you were uploading a lot. Now I can see where your time has gone and I hope to see more content! Love your style man!

Kinda expected it once you revealed the name of the game...

Can't say that I'm surprised lol

o7. I respect your decision, though I am deeply saddened. I look forward to seeing what you will have to offer in the future.

it's always difficult to let go of a project but it better than to be stressed and unhappy, i hope going forward you can give yourself more time to develop your skills towards the next project

this kinda sounds like an AI

It was amazing to follow your updates and even though the game isn't going to come out, I really enjoyed the content over the past months! Best of luck on your next endeavour :)

I think like many of your viewers, I’ve really enjoyed coming along for the journey and your insights on the process. I’m excited for whatever inspires your interest next!

Feel like I got bait and switched. I'm out!

Yeah that was the right call, it was a joke game. You have enough talent to make good serious games

It’s okay Garbaj! You made a noble effort. Looking forward to whatever you end up doing in the future!

was really looking forward to it ngl

Return all the money back to patroens who invested in your game 😂😂😂

Im sorry but I knew this was gonna happen. It’s hard solo but it’s a great show that you were still able to keep going after all this timw

i saw this coming

Sad to hear it go, but happy to hear you're making the right decision. Stay awesome Garbaj, you're cool and I like you and your content.

it was an honor for me to follow this series!

That was expected

Maybe this is the wrong place and the wrong time to post the things I am about to write, but perhaps there will be no better future time. When I started watching your videos, and learned that you were a game developer, I wasnt completely convinced about the game project you said you were spending time on. You talked about a multiplayer shooter, in which you are pretty much the only developer working on the project, and in the videos in which you mentioned your project, you often had footage of Apex legends, or other multiplayer game. You also never really showed or talked about any particular quirks or any other special feature or game mechanic in your game. The idea just sort of seemed like "generic multiplayer shooter", but with one developer and not nearly the production quality that the most popular shooters have. In short: Without formulating the actual thought in my head, I realise now that subconsciously I didnt have much faith in your project, and when you first showed off what you had done, I subconsciously thought to myself "what exactly is the appeal of this?" without saying or writing it out loud, in part because I wanted to support you. Perhaps this is a situation in which being a solo developer can make the situation a bit difficult, because perhaps direction is difficult to manage on your own. Its up to you have all the doses of vision and planning needed in order to make a certain game idea come to fruition.

Dude, no problem. Your perspective on game industry-related stuff is really cool and the short dev videos too. Quite a lot of reasons to keep watching your channel. Hope you find a project you really enjoy :D

I would love to see videos of you taking things you like in a particular game, and then implementing them in your own way and explaining the programming/designing around it. Making it a demo feature for the video.

better refund them

Being Indie Dev is tough. Overtime the stress starts to erode the passion. I feel the pain.

hey man, we respect your decision, it was fun to see the development process and we all look forward to all things you release in both YT content or otherwise

It was fun to see you go through the dev process on this channel. It's good to know when to cancel rather than finishing just because you feel like you have to. Just means you're more experienced for whatever you choose to do next.

Aw man... We will continue to show support man! It's a shame burnout and interest took part, but that's life. Thanks for showing us that game development of booty blastin'! It was fun seeing the progress! ❤

Excited to see what comes in the future!

I was looking forward to playing it :c I enjoyed the devlogs and the goofy style it had going but if you ain't having fun then it iiiiis what it iiiiis. I learned stuff from it and I enjoy your content in general so just do what you enjoy c:

Ahh hell nah man wtf👁️👁️

This is honestly the best comunnity ice seen

all love to you man godspeed…

make the project open source and let people finish it.

will you consider making your code open source? it's possible that the developers in your community can continue what you started

fair enough, hope you have a nice day too. It was fun to learn from the dev videos so i hope to see more in the future.

Still gonna keep watching your content, man. It's very engaging and interesting and fun! That's sad that you're exhausted about your promising project, but well, it happened. Nevertheless, can't wait to see, what stuff you'll do next! Good luck to you, man, and be happy, take a rest.

Oh no! EA got to him

I haven't watched through the video but thank god you stopped working on the project, it went down hill from the moment you gave it that stupid name. this isn't hate tho I like this channel and I hope you'll get inspiration to work on something better soon. show us what you're capable of with the next project.

As is game dev tradition! Virtually noone finishes their first game(s!). It's a loooot of work, and usually by the time you get to a first prototype you have newer better ideas based on your increased experience. That experience is what matters, perhaps in the future or even with some team it could he really helpful!

Thats sad... good luck with whatever you are going to do in the future.

lol ... classic indie dev move

sad

GG Garbaj. Good work thus far and hope you have success in whatever you wanna do next.

I enjoyed and looked more forwards towards the devlogs than the actual game, since i learned alot from them. But i completely understand and wish you good luck with future projects

saw this coming a mile away. This guy worked like 3 years at snails pace and we get a super underwhelming demo which might as well have been made in 2 weeks. Always remember guys, these people are youtuber/entertainers first, game devs second.

If you abandon the game I have to ask - is it open source or would you consider sharing it in a copyleft way for others to dissect and learn from?

Sorry to hear that. Professional game dev here. I always enjoy your insights and your videos on this project's development as you've been going. If anything it's always been motivating me to finally start "that side project" of my own. I'm sure whatever you continue to work on will be cool and I look forward to that stuff, too. Hang in there bro.

We are with you all the way. ♥️

go ahead and do what you feel is best for you mate, wish you all the best!

Unsurprising. Take care. Bye

No problem bruv! We love the content you make, whatever that may be! Oh and thanks for all those godot tutorials too, they're amazing.

Everything fine dude, as long you make something you like do whatever you want, still supporting you

Why does this vid seem so scripted

You've got to be kidding me

Its all good man. You still inspire me with the work you have done.