--- title: Would I spend 5 YEARS working on a single game? | daily.dev description: A game developer and YouTuber reflects on whether they would commit 5 years to developing a single game. Despite having two seemingly risky careers in game... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/would-i-spend-5-years-working-on-a-single-game--n7rkibnxi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Would I spend 5 YEARS working on a single game? | daily.dev og:description: A game developer and YouTuber reflects on whether they would commit 5 years to developing a single game. Despite having two seemingly risky careers in game... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/would-i-spend-5-years-working-on-a-single-game--n7rkibnxi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N7rkIbNXI.png og:image:alt: Would I spend 5 YEARS working on a single game? 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. # Would I spend 5 YEARS working on a single game? **[Code Monkey](https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A game developer and YouTuber reflects on whether they would commit 5 years to developing a single game. Despite having two seemingly risky careers in game development and YouTube, they describe themselves as fundamentally risk-averse, having minimized exposure at each career step — starting game dev while living with parents, and launching YouTube only after already earning from games. They conclude that a 5-year single-game commitment would be too risky, even if appealing creatively. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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