“The Beginning” is always the best and worst place to start. This venture of starting up a game project with very little (if any) funding will certainly put the fire to my feet to succeed. I have worked in game dev for about 20 years…and some damned good games that are a part of common vocabulary. Prior to that I, I was involved in government work (think suits and bureaucracy) and certainly had some heavy handwork in web 1.0. Every system and industry will cycle up and down. Several game dev crashes, several other tech crashes, and well, here we are again.
The past 6 months have been a reset. Getting over burnout from a heavy 11 years of teaching University (some of my ex students might be reading this). I think I have finally had the chance to sleep enough and begin anew. This new project will be under wraps (in regard to detail) but the whole point of this blog is to push out small success stories as we go. I’m learning to code all over again, manage, juggle and wear a few different hats so far (like I used to). I can’t help but feel that I am walking into a big void… yes.. this is true.. a big void of unknown. all the more to push myself to to better.. even at age 50… the work will never be done.
The past few days have been setting up this website. I swear, doing this kind of stuff was so much easier 20 years ago. The editor in Word Press has been a real pain.. I should have just opened up notepad and hand code everything because, (let’s be real) everything will probably shift and change anyway. Arguing with a web based editor in regards to getting some fucking text to justify to the left or the right made me lose 4 hours of my life. I should have hand coded it in notepad. The images are being pushed in some obscure directory. I should have hand coded it in notepad. The interface and documentation is a convoluted as Autodesk Maya. I should have hand coded it in notepad. The DNS propagation is still not finished despite “handling” it 3 days ago. Yep… all of this shit would have taken me just a day or so 20 years ago… it has taken me nearly a week to get to this point. we are not off to a good start.
Yes.. I’m grump, but still hopeful. There is much to do and I am scared to death… all over again. but… one step at a time. I will get the website at an acceptable level soon, and good enough to not worry about it for a while… gotta think the long game. function before form at this point.
