1. How much are you making with your games?

2. Are you an Indie or do you write games for a company?

3. If you are a successful Indie, what's your advise for all us noobs?

1. I don't write games.

2. I don't write games.

3. I have no advice.

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1. How much are you making with your games?

2. Are you an Indie or do you write games for a company?

3. If you are a successful Indie, what's your advise for all us noobs?

1. As with Arnaud, I'm in the negative at the moment. Probably a few tens of thousands negative on my indie project.

2. I'm working on an indie project, but I also work a few hours here and there as a contract engine programmer, which covers less than half my expenses (hence the losses).

3. Get a real, salaried job at a games company. You will learn at an exponential pace being surrounded by other professionals compared to being on your own, you'll be making money which you can put into a savings account to support your indie ventures later, and you'll make a lot of contacts throughout the world so that when you do start an indie project later you'll have a network of people that you can ask for help.

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Get a real, salaried job at a games company. You will learn at an exponential pace being surrounded by other professionals compared to being on your own, you'll be making money which you can put into a savings account to support your indie ventures later, and you'll make a lot of contacts throughout the world so that when you do start an indie project later you'll have a network of people that you can ask for help.

What!? Then I would have to wear pants and shave sometimes! That's crazytalk!

Thankfully, I haven't had a job in 8 years.

3. Get a real, salaried job at a games company.

I'd agree get a real salaried job but, not neccasarily at a games company. A lot of the games companies I've worked at have a clause in the contract that says they own anything you work at on the side. A company one of my friends worked at actually tried to claim that they owned a chunk of the ogre engine because he made significant contributions to it in his spare time. Also when working as an indie anything that pays the bills helps.

What!? Then I would have to wear pants and shave sometimes!

Currently working at a bank. I am wearing pants but often I don't wear shoes and I hardly ever shave. I work from home a lot where wearing pants is also optional but, I generaly tend to wear them otherwise my cats give me disaproving looks.

When you work from home, its can be more important to wear a shirt, then to wear pants

I work from home a lot where wearing pants is also optional but, I generaly tend to wear them otherwise my cats give me disaproving looks.

Doesn't matter if they don't say anything about it.

When you work from home, its can be more important to wear a shirt, then to wear pants

Clever!

I made 75$ by winning a gamedev.net game programming contest.

I guess I'm successful.

Link so we can see it and aspire for said success?

Yes getting paid to code seems like win win to me.

During the five BlackBerry Port a Thons I made $100 per app, but each event was only 36 hours so I did nothing but brainstorm, code and sleep.