Figured I'd post about it, just because I like hearing myself talk. 
For the longest time, about 20 years in fact, I've had nearly no motivation to write any software outside of my professional capacity. In fact, it has been disappointing to say the least, because I've had the desire to. But my mentality has been two-fold; firstly by the time I get home, get dinner cooked, clean up, get the kids ready for bed, I'm spent - I just want to veg. Second, I've had no direction, no reason to develop something, even just for fun. The main problem being is that everything I can think of can already be found out there, just a trip to google.com away. And of course, I hate reinventing the wheel - why bother when it's already done for you.
Well, last week I started, and actually have made some progress. I've had video game ideas bottled up in me for the longest time. Frankly, I'm convinced I could be a kickass executive producer with some of the titles I've brewed up in my head, but I've always lacked the motivation to even extend the effort to get to any sort of technical phase of development.
Granted, I'm only netting an hour or two a week in order to make something happen, but for once, I've got some direction, a plan, and more importantly the desire to do something. And yes, I promise, as soon as I have something workable, I'll share it with you guys. In the meantime, all I have is the basis for a game board set up in 2D. My next step is to put some logic into it and get some pieces to actually be able to play something. Once that's done, I'm going to take some footsteps back into 3D, something I haven't done in 10 years.
The biggest thing though, something I never expected, I'm having fun. If I wasn't, I'd definitely not have even posted this. Go ahead, laugh at me or cheer me on. Either way, hopefully this is the start of something small, that might just evolve to something big.
/blog
For the longest time, about 20 years in fact, I've had nearly no motivation to write any software outside of my professional capacity. In fact, it has been disappointing to say the least, because I've had the desire to. But my mentality has been two-fold; firstly by the time I get home, get dinner cooked, clean up, get the kids ready for bed, I'm spent - I just want to veg. Second, I've had no direction, no reason to develop something, even just for fun. The main problem being is that everything I can think of can already be found out there, just a trip to google.com away. And of course, I hate reinventing the wheel - why bother when it's already done for you.
Well, last week I started, and actually have made some progress. I've had video game ideas bottled up in me for the longest time. Frankly, I'm convinced I could be a kickass executive producer with some of the titles I've brewed up in my head, but I've always lacked the motivation to even extend the effort to get to any sort of technical phase of development.
Granted, I'm only netting an hour or two a week in order to make something happen, but for once, I've got some direction, a plan, and more importantly the desire to do something. And yes, I promise, as soon as I have something workable, I'll share it with you guys. In the meantime, all I have is the basis for a game board set up in 2D. My next step is to put some logic into it and get some pieces to actually be able to play something. Once that's done, I'm going to take some footsteps back into 3D, something I haven't done in 10 years.
The biggest thing though, something I never expected, I'm having fun. If I wasn't, I'd definitely not have even posted this. Go ahead, laugh at me or cheer me on. Either way, hopefully this is the start of something small, that might just evolve to something big.
/blog