I’ve been writing the occasional article on my experiences becoming an indie developer, and posting them over at Gamasutra.
Rather than cross post them here, feel free to check them out over on the Gamasutra web site.
Staying Focused and Motivated as an Indie Developer Working Alone.
Mentoring And Why It Matters To The Games Business.
It’s Not All Rainbows and Unicorns. Thoughts on Life, The Universe, and Indie Development.
Enjoy!
The living part of that is the important thing. What you do has to be rewarding. What is the point of living a life, without feeding that amazing brain, and all your sense, with as much good stuff as possible. This is the reason we’re alive. God knows, nothing else makes sense! Experience, love, feel, smell, care, eat, fuck, play, work, all of it should be done with a hunger, driven by certain death. And on that happy note, I give you Kittens!
.. Pragmatist.
prag·ma·tism
n.1. Philosophy A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.2. A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.
You have a choice. You always have a choice. The choice may be painful or difficult or both, but you still have one. You don’t have to be doing what you do. You don’t have to put up with your present situation. You can always change it. You simply have to make a choice and act. It just depends on which choice is more/less painful, and how tolerant you are of the pain.
