IndieLife

Description

IndieLife is a 2D rpg where you play as a guy trying to fill out his childhood dream of quitting his day job to successfully make games for a living.

Think game dev tycoon meets youtubers life.

You start off with a day job which pays just enough to get rent out of the way and which limits the time you have to learn new skills and make games.

Once you get your programming skills up high enough you can take on software contracting jobs which take up less time and pay more, you will also get the opportunity to master your skills through these jobs.

In order to make games you need to improve your programming skills, you will have the option to buy both art and sound assets so sound and audio skills are not necessary, but being able to make your own assets will improve your games.

There will be quite a few options when it comes to making games but we will get more into that when get further into development :)

You will only be able to make games during your free time so naturally the quicker you can make enough money to quit your job the easier it will be to make better and bigger games.

Background

This game is in very early development and is likely to change overtime especially if there is good feedback.
I'm the only person working on this game and it is the first time I will attempt to make my own art so that will probably take the most time. (apologies if it sucks)

Devlog

https://gamejolt.com/games/indielife/416841

Current State

Currently I have only implemented the core mechanics, get a job, make money, learn skills/topics, create games based on what you learned, and publish the game.

The game is very simple at the moment with every action being followed by a fade to black screen. I plan on changing this with minigames For example, instead of interacting with the door to go to work and then fading to black and getting your money, you will actually have to go to the work place and do your tasks to complete the working day. and the same with the other mechanics such as making games and learning etc.

I will release another version shortly with saving and loading implemented and I will also fix the bugs with the current build.