Please Make Your Game - The Quixotic Engineer. This post is partly a (two month late) response to Chris Hecker’s GDC 2010 rant entitled Please Finish Your Game. It also condenses some rough thoughts I’ve long held about motivation and game making. It took some effort to edit it into a coherent form, so I apologize in advance if it’s a tad rambling. In his rant, Chris expresses concern about the fixation on short development time. He worries that rapid-fire game releases (exemplified by Jonatan “Cactusquid” Söderström) have become a “badge of honour” in the indie game community. I have great respect for Chris (I loved his talk at MIGS 2009) and thus am cautious about disagreeing with him. Anecdotal evidence suggest that there are a great many people who are interested in making games, but have never done so. You’re avoiding the thing that’s holding all your dreams? Game jams provide tools to help overcome this pressure.
Carl Sagan. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer and popular science writer. Quotes[edit] In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.
But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.Keynote address at CSICOP conference (1987), as quoted in Do Science and the Bible Conflict? The truth may be puzzling. The truth may be puzzling. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Essay as "Mr. Essay as Mr. hFgAz.jpg (645×3426) The Future is Ours. Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life.
Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination. The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this; it’s something we collectively force one another to do. Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are; what those people are is not busy but tired. Brecht Vandenbroucke Even children are busy now, scheduled down to the half-hour with classes and extracurricular activities.
The present hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it’s something we’ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it. Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness. I am not busy. Here I am largely unmolested by obligations. Henry Rollins: The one decision that changed my life forever.
Choose not to fall parkour.