September 30, 2008
Long overdue
So the title of this blog is slowly become very wrong and I apoligise for that, I just can’t really talk about Dragonlings much, and I have been working on other things that just don’t belong here. To fix this problem I have started a new blog that I hopefully will be posting in more often at choosemyreality.wordpress.com. I messed up and lost my usual chooseareality name to not paying attention to what happens when you delete a blog from another account. (I don’t get it and it is gone forever! 
) Not a biggie, just had to reword my usual name a bit.
Hopefully I can start making some posts now that I have a much broader subject matter to attack. Namely anything that is catching my attention at the moment. 
August 21, 2008
Stablized
Dragonlings is up and running again. It isn’t that it wasn’t stable. I just was working on other things and now have stepped back into Dragonlings to keep things moving forward. A few pieces needed some attention, but I fixed them up and change some of the controls and now I am ready to start building new things.
I am doing way too much now and I am trying to figure out what needs to be cut to make time. I even have another at home project on the horizon that I have no idea where I am going to get the time to work on. It is hard when I am so excited about so many different things.
Here are my choices:
- Work on a volunteer project that I joined and takes 40+ hours a month most likely. (Smaller items that I can finish, but lots of items.)
- Work on Dragonlings and create a really fun game, or at least create something so I can say look I can make games. (Epic size of this makes it very intimidating.)
- Work on an open source project that looks really exciting, and I have been meaning to start working on something in the open source world. (Downside is I need to learn yet another language.)
- Do nothing and just play WAR (Not really an option, but fun to imagine.)
What do you think?
July 29, 2008
It is official I am insane!
I have thought it over and over in my head and have come to the conclusion that nothing would make me happier right now than to leave the business programming world and start making games, or at least something game related.
Why am I saying I’m insane? Well, I have a great job with great benefits and I get to work regular hours, overtime is an exception that only has happened about twice in the last two years. I get yearly raises and am paid pretty well for the area I am in. They even provide us with training off-site once a year and the time to train on-site figured into our availability. Yet, I want to leave it for the game field.
I am not working on Dragonlings, because I am working on other things that are quicker, things I can get done, because my history of business apps doesn’t exactly sell in the gaming field. I have been told I need the portfolio by someone on the inside which backs up what I already knew. I will do everything I can to make this happen and I will have the job I have always dreamed of.
My quest now is to try to figure out what I can make, what can I do that can impress the powers that be? I feel confident enough in my programming ability now that I know I can do the job, I just need to convince everyone else that I can as well.
Will Dragonlings ever get more love? I really don’t know. Part of me thinks that if I can get it running that would be the clincher, but part of me thinks that taking my time working on my project doesn’t really demonstrate that I am willing to work on others projects nearly as much.
I don’t know for sure, but I am going to keep trying and maybe someday I will actually say more than “just a programmer” when people ask me what I do. I will be able to say I make games for a living, or at least help to make them, and I would be so happy to finally hit one of the goals I have always had.
