What is your dream in terms of game development? I’ve made a poll. :)/
I don’t quite see the difference between “sell my own games” and “head my own company”
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As fun as solo development seems to be, it can be frustrating as well. I’d like to work solo, or with a small team that has a similar vision. It seems everything has a downside in some area though.
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This. One is illegal without the other in most countries.
Did he just edit in the “with employees” part or was that there before? Because it’s different in that aspect.
I thought this was going to be about what specific game dev job one would want. Like, programmer or artist or writer or director or whatever.
Well maybe, but not in, for example, in the USA.
BTW, I’m really tempted to choose the “I hate making games. I’m just on this forum for lolz.”
I selected ‘To Freelance for Companies’, but I’m available for individuals too. If both were there I’d have probably picked ‘To Freelance for Individuals’.
You don’t need a company to sell your own games. You can be a sole trader.
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Well I know but can’t your goal to be to sell games AND do it with a team? Seems selling games is implicit in heading your own company with employees, but then the sell games option should perhaps be “sell games solo”.
Anyhow, I picked head a company, because I want to design and sell my own games, but ideally with contractors or employees helping me.
Initially I didn’t think about that, and picked that option. Seeing the option below it however made me see it the same way you do–sell games solo.
Well no. There are several different legal structures that one can use to sell games. It varies country to country, but most countries allow for variations of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies. There are also several other structures that could theoretically sell games, including non profits, trusts, joint ventures and associations, but these will be less relevant.
The idea that you must have a company to sell games is an internet falsehood. The idea that having a company will protect your personal assets if you mess up the business side of things is also an internet falsehood.
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Except where I live I guess. 
My dream job is where get to make great games with outstanding people, work from home but get travel the world and make a great living.
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Wow! Hope you achieve your dream some day 
Mine would be to lead a small studio I think
To be the technical lead on a TrigglyPuff Simulator. Then to devise an AI algorithm to decide best insult meme or flame form for a FaceBook game CliqueBait which factions off social media into cliques who lob flames at other and you have to log in a click on the little avatar buggers or they croak…Oh…maybe that is happening already. Well let me do the little cutesie dolls avatars and score the best hits under several categories with my totally rigged but advertised as indifferent AI algorithm. The tagline will be CliqueBait - “Yer Gonna pay!” with each insult a microtransaction.
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i guess finding enough like minded people who are motivated, skilled in their own fields and have a similar vision of the end product would be nice
but this seems pretty far fetched 
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Which country is that? I’m now curious to do some googling.
Honestly I can’t see an economic system where restricting the ability to trade in your own name makes sense. Maybe North Korea is that nuts?
I’m the boss. The big boss. The BIG TIME boss.
I tell people who are so smart and motivated what to do, and they do it. I change my mind, I say, “Do it this way!” and they do it.
When the game I want exist, I say, “take a break!” and the timid geniuses scatter while I enjoy the game.
Seriously though, I’d just like to make a living working in the field in any capacity so that I can build skills, make contacts, and eventually be able to make a dream game or two on my own or with a small team of friends.
Is “southern Europe” descriptive enough? Really don’t want to give out too much information.
Around here, if you dare make a penny from selling your products or services without, at minimum, leading a state controlled form of LLC, you get fined out the butt/locked up.
It’s separate tax law and additional expenses that you can’t cover unless
- you are already employed and you’re only required to pay 20% of the contribution, but this LLC is only valid while you’re employed (full time) - meaning you usually don’t have time/energy for afternoon development, making it unlikely you’ll break even with expenses.
- your LLC makes you more than minimum wage and you’re otherwise unemployed.
Same here. Greece.
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