For me, my regularity inward posting drops off when I'm busy inward a evolution cycle. The logic goes something similar this: Why should I write most my game when I tin endure developing my game? Why write a weblog post service when I could endure otherwise writing code for the game? Even when my immature human being collaborators continued playing a ton of other games, I had problem playing anything because I couldn't seem to justify spending whatever spare fourth dimension NOT writing code for the game I was working on at the time. You see, the employment is balance. Especially equally an indie developer where my fourth dimension was already split upward betwixt my 40+ hours per calendar week 24-hour interval chore together with family, precious niggling evolution fourth dimension would frequently occur subsequently hours (10pm to 2am, sometimes 3am... ish) a brace nights a week. I intend I only got burned out a little, together with I wouldn't endure surprised if that happens to others equally well.
But I'm non complaining. I'm thankful for the 2-year experience I had working alongside or then actually cool creative individual friends on a tower defence game. In fact, today I was (finally) able to charge it upward over again together with own got a await at what nosotros had accomplished. Of course, looking at it now, somewhat removed from when I had written a lot of the code, it was a lot easier to come across the imperfections together with how un-polished it was. It's real tempting to acquire dorsum together with elbow grease to brand or then of those one-time game mechanics operate better. I've learned a lot most engine pattern since those days together with I wishing I could acquire dorsum together with redo the entire design, but I know it would own got forever.
In the fourth dimension since the tower defence game, I took a overnice long intermission to only pass fourth dimension alongside my household unit of measurement together with unwind a niggling earlier diving into or then Android development. I was actually interested inward creating a game people could gibe inward the palm of their hands. So I created a ball-jumping puzzler tentatively named Plane Runner, together with it was an AMAZING feeling to run it on our Kindle Fire. Heck, fifty-fifty the uncomplicated Layout Views app that I posted most inward my finally post service over a yr agone was a nail to spotter running on the Kindle Fire. And when nosotros got a smartphone, it was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than sensational to play Plane Runner on that device. But over again I started putting inward likewise much after-hours fourth dimension on the game, getting burned out again, together with had to own got or then other niggling break.
Whereas the tower defence game taught me a lot most collaboration alongside artists (and a audio guy!), equally good equally XNA together with a diversity of effects processing together with creating a 3D game, Plane Runner has taught me a lot most creating a game for mobile devices (mind the garbage collector!) together with how to ameliorate pattern a game engine, including but non express to the purpose of a Scene Graph, ameliorate lawsuit management, together with a component-based architecture. If you're at all interested inward creating games for Android, I highly recommend Chris Pruett's Google I/O talk.
So that's only a niggling history on what's happened inward the fourth dimension since my finally post. But I wanted to allow everyone know that I'm yet here. I'm yet ticking, yet developing (though similar a shot at a slower measurement for the sake of sanity) together with hopefully also yet writing hither from fourth dimension to time. I am determined to destination Plane Runner, to own got at to the lowest degree ONE completed game inward my portfolio. But most importantly, I promise to proceed growing together with learning, together with would encourage immature human being indies to produce the same. I similar a shot sympathize why or then seem to own got fallen off the human face upward of the earth, but hey... it's never likewise belatedly to brand a comeback, right?
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