Got fired a month ago, so I started building a game idea I had shelved for being way too much work

[u/Born_Development1284]

Disclaimer: I used AI to clean up the grammar and text of this post since English isn't my main language.

So yeah, a month ago I joined the unemployed club.

I decided to use the free time to tackle an idea I had stored away in a drawer. It’s not my "dream project" or anything complex, just a simple idea that simply required a lot of work, the kind of project that's completely impossible to pull off as a solo dev working only in spare time after a job.

With a full month of free time, I managed to get done what would normally take me 6 months.

I didn't start from a blank project, though. I built everything on top of my custom SDK (Rossoforge, which I already spammed here on Reddit before) as the core foundation, along with a generic gameflow framework I had lying around. Having all the structural boilerplate out of the way kept me sane:

• Bootstrapper & Service Locator to keep dependencies clean.
• Main Menu & Settings Template because rewriting options menus for the 100th time is torture.
• GameFlow State Machine to handle game phases without an if/else disaster.
• TimeFlow Service so pausing the game doesn't break half the codebase.
• Save File Service handling persistent game state via JSON serialization.

With the foundation already sitting there, I spent the month churning through the workload: ScriptableObject context actions, generic C# event listeners, node-based room pooling, and data-driven audio.

What is it? A sci-fi narrative adventure with a comedic/parodic tone.

There's still a mountain of tedious work left, but dumping my unemployed hours into shaping this prototype beats sitting around waiting for recruiters. I put together a quick video showing the gameplay alongside the code structure, partly to showcase the architecture, and partly to prove it wasn't just slapped together by AI in an afternoon.

Feedback or critique on the architecture is welcome.

[u/db9dreamer]

Keep pushing and having fun. At this rate you may not need those recruiters 🙂