Leaving YouTube-Indie Game Dev Tutorials

#Shorts - Am I leaving youtube? Heck NO!! I'm still here. 2 full time jobs and less time to create content or even work on my own game dev. Stick with me. Will be back at it here soon. https://discord.gg/DgUdNDT7KU

Despite the title, this is a channel update rather than a goodbye. The short version: Bliz Studio is still here, tutorials are continuing, and here's the honest reason things went quiet for a while.

Why the gap happened

The cause is straightforward and probably familiar to a lot of people making things on the side. Jerry has a full-time teaching job as a professor, and his own client work is a full-time job on top of that.

Two full-time commitments means the YouTube tutorials and his own indie game development both had to take a back seat for a stretch. Not abandoned, deprioritized, which is a different thing and worth saying out loud.

Still here, still producing

The core message is that the channel is continuing to produce tutorials. The pause was a scheduling problem rather than a decision to stop.

This is worth noting if you follow small game dev channels generally. Silence usually reads as an ending, but for creators making tutorials around full-time work, it more often means a busy semester. The back catalogue stays useful either way.

What's coming next

Two threads are named. The first is a VR tutorial series that had just started, building something in the vein of Beat Saber or Synth Riders. That's a rhythm-and-motion project, which is a good teaching subject because it forces you to deal with timing, tracked controller input, and spawn scheduling all in one build.

The second is more mobile tutorials using PlayMaker, continuing the visual scripting work the channel is best known for. Between the two you get coverage of both ends of the spectrum, from headset-based interaction down to touch input on a phone.

How to get involved

There's an open invitation here that's easy to skim past. If you have thoughts, questions, or you actually want to help and contribute to the channel, there's a Discord and the link sits in the video description.

That last part is the one to take seriously. Tutorial channels run by one person working two jobs are largely shaped by what viewers ask for, because request volume is the clearest signal about what's worth the limited production time available. If there's a topic you want covered, saying so in Discord is more likely to make it happen than waiting for it to appear.