[ngokevin]

Stardew Valley?

[ohdeargodno]

If you're going to forget that his girlfriend worked two jobs for 5 years to even support him being able to do that, yeah, he was "alone". Just like trust fund startup bros make it "alone" (with the 500k their parents gave them).

[bko]

Yes this still counts as "alone". Stop diminishing hard work and talent. A lot of parents give their kids 6 figure amounts, almost all of them don't do anything with it.

[throwawaylaptop]

That's just semantics. I worked as a car salesman, saved over $250k, and quit to become a self taught saas guy and my php jquery mess now supports me.

Did I do it alone? You'd argue that no, I had my old bosses help or something because he gave me the funds to learn and work on it?

If he got it from parents instead would that change anything? What about getting it from his own savings?

[LarsDu88]

This still counts as alone in the same way we don't consider Steve Jobs parents renting out their garage or Bill Gates mom bringing him into IBM boardroom executive meetings at the age of 12

[sunrunner]

And to keep the thread going, Undertale (Toby Fox)?

[danaris]

Undertale not only credits Temmie Chang, it has characters based on her in the game.

(There may be others credited; Temmie's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.)