Examples of developers who made it big

Slumps... We all get in them. For good reasons too, especially in the game development world. It's so easy to get discouraged.

The excitement you feel when your game hits the store is unlike anything else. A few days go by and the sales are minimal, if nothing at all. Sure, we all get into a slump after a discouraging hit like that. Who wouldn't? Let me tell you, I was in a slump not too long ago. I had been working on my latest title SpaceRoads since my wife and I got married, 2 years ago. I put a lot of effort into it. I released trailers, gameplay videos, and screenshots to get hype for the game. I even paid to advertise my trailers. However, I didn't get the kind of response I was looking for. I got discouraged and halted development on the game.

I lost my job shortly after this happened, which left me even more discouraged. One day, feeling all doom and gloom, I turned on my Apple TV, loaded up some Netflix, and I started looking...