--- title: My 10 YEAR Indie Game Development Journey | daily.dev description: A 10-year retrospective of an indie game developer's journey, starting from a university dorm room in 2012 with a self-taught Java-based MMO project, through a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-10-year-indie-game-development-journey-3ohvmj2hi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My 10 YEAR Indie Game Development Journey | daily.dev og:description: A 10-year retrospective of an indie game developer's journey, starting from a university dorm room in 2012 with a self-taught Java-based MMO project, through a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-10-year-indie-game-development-journey-3ohvmj2hi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3oHVMj2Hi.png og:image:alt: My 10 YEAR Indie Game Development Journey og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My 10 YEAR Indie Game Development Journey **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 23 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 10-year retrospective of an indie game developer's journey, starting from a university dorm room in 2012 with a self-taught Java-based MMO project, through a failed Kickstarter, a cancer diagnosis, health setbacks, and ultimately the successful commercial release of Equilinox on Steam in 2018. The developer built custom game engines from scratch, grew a YouTube channel from 0 to over 100K subscribers through weekly devlogs, and is currently working on a third game called Homegrown. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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