blog VS web-games

In a similar vein, the developer of BYTEPATH used to use Github issues as their blog. I also thought it was clever. You even get a commenting and reaction system for free!

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues

a327ex/blog : blog from before his bytepath game, it has posts like "Thoughts on making small games", "The Indiepocalypse Isn't Real", "Roguelikes and Grinding", and "Luck Isn't Real"

As for resources, not sure on physical books, but here are a couple of resources I found useful when I started with it: Sheepolution Bytepath's Articles

bytepath tutorial takes you through the creation of a game. Code seems fine, but I haven't looked at it that hard. Unlike most tutorials, it asks you to answer some questions yourself and to implement some content yourself. Seems like a good learning exercise and translating Lua -> C++ will keep you from cooypasting.

a327ex/blog (pre snkrx blog on github)

Thoughts on making small games

Instead of following tutorials, follow a game making lesson. Try something like the bytepath tutorial, use whatever language/framework you want, and figure out the details of how to make it all work. It will force you to work like a real programmer: googling for how to do things until you've retained enough to solve simple problems on your own (then you Google for harder solutions).

I've noticed lots of people on here feel like imposters because they don't know how to build something from scratch. If you want to practice building things from scratch, check this repo out. It has +70k stars on github, and covers over 20 different programming languages . The projects range from simple (todo list) to advanced (build an excel clone, C compiler, and even a game). I'm not affiliated with this repo, simply stumbled on it and thought of this community.

There's the bytepath tutorial and Sheepolution tutorial .

I recently ran into this post detailing the development and monetization of web games, and I'm interested about anyones experiences with this business model.

If you are making small games, you should also consider the browser games market. There was a great article and discussion about it last year. https://github.com/nyunesu/web-games/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/pvwkf0/how_i_sold_each_small_web_game_for_1900_and_how/

Depends, this take is pretty interesting https://github.com/nyunesu/web-games.

Patreon is not a bad idea, definitely in agreement with some of the other commenters that if you can tap into that first world money you should be golden. You have to manage to generate some hype around your game(s) and publish updates often, but some people are making a lot more than $500 on Patreon. https://github.com/nyunesu/web-games may also be of interest to you. Being able to pump out a lot of small games that have an original enough twist to catch people’s interest is probably more reliable than trying to make one big successful game, and the trickle of income might amount to decent money where you live. Of course, if you have several semi successful games you’re much more likely to land a job or at least some freelance contracts.

There's still a small market for licensing web games to the remaining aggregator sites. Addicting Games, Armor Games, and CoolMath Games all have some form of paid, non-exclusive licensing deals. I only learned about this when CoolMath Games reached out to me about licensing a game I had released.

There's an article here [1] that goes into detail. The author was averaging $1900 per game, releasing one every other week.

[1] https://github.com/nyunesu/web-games/

Well, actually if you happened to make small web games, there is this interesting page: https://github.com/nyunesu/web-games/