So many times the game Developer is on a solo guest face of the GameDev boss in the epic battle,
well in this short post I just want to let you in on a secret...
"You don't do this alone!"
Go find like minded individuals to support you and make friends have fun...
A great place to start is at http://www.onegameamonth.com/resources
Here they encourage and challenge each other to make a game a month for 2013, oh yes and there is an epic free pixel font resource for free download.
Enjoy,
finding you the gems and easter eggs in game dev.
Go BIG!
Boysano
Independent Game Developer rants, as I travel down the road of creating games with game maker software. Living the dream through this hobby of mine. Feel free to ask Game Make coding questions, I'm a programmer mostly.
Monday, 15 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Age of gamers...
I had the most interesting conversation today at work with a colleague who admitted he is also a gamer. There are many people in our large professional industrial company whom will never admit they are gamers and in fact may even be embarrassed to admit it.
This probably has a lot to do with the culture in South Africa since we are only now starting our second generation of Internet users where other countries already have a mature 3rd generation going.
Makes me wonder how many other countries still live in a "secret gamer" culture?? Blog your thoughts please..
But what really is amazing about this work colleague is that not only does he play Starcraft and Diablo 3 (his favorite) and wow, but also so does his wife!! Oh and guess what they play this online with their son, whom is in another country 1st world... Why so impressive you ask? He is already 62 years old and his wife 58, now that's just freakin awesome!!! At least I know what the future holds for me one day past 60 in over 30 years from now ha ha
This is really also exciting for the future prospects of South Africa in terms of technical growth and market size for games and innovation, yes we all know that the gaming industry is at the fore front of the worlds innovation!! Whoot and that's why I want to be part of it...
Any thoughts? Please go ahead and comment.
Until next time Indies!
Go BIG!
Boysano
This probably has a lot to do with the culture in South Africa since we are only now starting our second generation of Internet users where other countries already have a mature 3rd generation going.
Makes me wonder how many other countries still live in a "secret gamer" culture?? Blog your thoughts please..
But what really is amazing about this work colleague is that not only does he play Starcraft and Diablo 3 (his favorite) and wow, but also so does his wife!! Oh and guess what they play this online with their son, whom is in another country 1st world... Why so impressive you ask? He is already 62 years old and his wife 58, now that's just freakin awesome!!! At least I know what the future holds for me one day past 60 in over 30 years from now ha ha
This is really also exciting for the future prospects of South Africa in terms of technical growth and market size for games and innovation, yes we all know that the gaming industry is at the fore front of the worlds innovation!! Whoot and that's why I want to be part of it...
Any thoughts? Please go ahead and comment.
Until next time Indies!
Go BIG!
Boysano
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Short update and a personal touch
If you want to follow a more short hand personal update from me you can like my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/BoysanoIndieGaming.
The game coding is going well, I'm at 80% of my game for now I call it "Mini Creeps of War" and it will be a mob creep tower defense game...retro style.
Already got message system and levels sorted out.
I'm still holding back before I try to go to publishers with it, since in this industry first impressions last, but I wanted to be at that point already, I'm still positive with the progress though for only 8-hours a week after day job stress. Positively the day job can fund these muse projects. Looking back I'm probably already at 4x3x8 = 96 - 100hours on this project.
I'm also increasing my network, busy registering on reddit.com and found that posting honest positive feedback reviews on other game devs and graphic artists projects is the way to go for now... try it.
Keep positive and keep the focus!! You can do it!
The game coding is going well, I'm at 80% of my game for now I call it "Mini Creeps of War" and it will be a mob creep tower defense game...retro style.
Already got message system and levels sorted out.
I'm still holding back before I try to go to publishers with it, since in this industry first impressions last, but I wanted to be at that point already, I'm still positive with the progress though for only 8-hours a week after day job stress. Positively the day job can fund these muse projects. Looking back I'm probably already at 4x3x8 = 96 - 100hours on this project.
I'm also increasing my network, busy registering on reddit.com and found that posting honest positive feedback reviews on other game devs and graphic artists projects is the way to go for now... try it.
Keep positive and keep the focus!! You can do it!
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