Pre-Sprint 2: The Storm that Wasn’t The Pacific Northwest is fairly sheltered as far as weather goes. We get a lot of overcast days and rain, and sure, one day a giant earthquake will kill us all, but we’re spared the blizzards and hurricanes and tornadoes and everything else. It’s typically very quiet here. That’s why […]
Pre-Sprint 1: Retrospective
It’s official: progress has been made! These bunch of stickies are proof. Highlights Actual work on the game – wow! Real coding! Real design! It’s like I’m really developing a video game Fixed a laptop. The prospect of drastically reduced paychecks has incentivize me to fix and maintain old hardware instead of ogling new hardware. […]
Pre-Sprint 1 Planning: A Very Rainy Start
These types of posts will be used to go over the next week’s work. However, because this is still just a hobby, I’m not considering this an ‘official’ sprint – just a test run. Goals for Pre-Sprint 1 There are a lot of spinning plates right now! It should be of no surprise that there’s […]
Deflated Expectations
I’ve dreamed about quitting my job and making indie games for half a decade now. I’m an escapist by nature, and thoughts of sitting at home making and play games all day sounded absolutely wonderful What’s stopping me? Well, “life”, I suppose…there’s always some big expense or reason not to quit, and my responsibilities grow […]