Melatonin wasn’t always a Rhythm Heaven-like, either. Huynh thought Melatonin would take him roughly a year to finish – it took him three. Still, Huynh wasn’t discouraged – he had a lot of savings and was inspired by stories he had read about game development from sources like the book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels. One of his colleagues quit with him, intending to do the art for the project, but dropped out just a few weeks in. Hobbyist game making quickly turned into a career as he quit his job near the end of 2019 to work on Melatonin.
I want to try this out, so I started making games as a hobby maybe around early 2019.” “But I don't know, at some point, I just got really burnt out of work and I decided who cares if my entire day is focused on games and stuff. “I intentionally wanted to keep my work stuff away from games since I already spent so much of my day listening to podcasts and reading reviews and stuff like that,” Huynh says. While he was always a gamer, he explicitly didn’t want to get into game design at first. Huynh’s educational background is in general design – graphic, audio, UI, architecture, the works.
