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The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. (This article is cross posted on my website Indielicious.com) I’ve spent the past year working out of my home office on projects and side project and other hare brained ideas. Sounds like a dream come true, and it is for the most part. I know I’m a lucky guy to be in a position where I can afford to pursue this insanity, but I’m beginning to realize that there is a very real downside and danger to “going it alone”. Before I went independent, I worked in a busy studio in the thick of everything. Lately I’ve been struggling a little with focus and motivation, and I’ve spent some time trying to figure out what the problem is, and why I’m stuck in this uncharacteristic funk and rut. Make “to do” lists. Now get back to work! Chris Shrigley's Blog - Staying Focused and Motivated as an Indie Developer Working Alone. View Game - Rise of the Titans - FGL. BSc (Hons) Computing & Games Development - Course overview.
TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED LEARNING - ipad mini and ebooks As a computing student at Plymouth, a key aspect is how we use the technology itself to support your learning. You will receive an Apple iPad mini to give you access to various additional resources that support your modules (e.g. podcasts, eBooks (see below)), as well as to enable you to participate in interactive activities such as in-class voting and feedback, and for accessing various University online systems such as module sites, the electronic library, and of course email. Free eBooks for all first-year undergraduates on computing courses First year computing students at Plymouth University have access to free of charge eBook versions of textbooks.
The eBook package is worth over £300 and covers core first year modules and can be downloaded to computer, laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android phone or Android tablet. The list of books currently available comprises: Leaving AAA: Why Naughty Dog's star designer became a teacher. When Richard Lemarchand left Naughty Dog in 2012, he did so while at the top of his field. A lead designer on the studio's flagship Uncharted franchise, Lemarchand departed triple-A game development to join the faculty at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, within the Interactive Media and Games Division. At the time it seemed a puzzling career move - at least for those who didn't know him. "I’ve always had an indie kid’s soul, I think," he says.
"I grew up in the 80s. So whether it was the New Wave with its connections to punk music and the whole DIY scene... Now coming to the end of his first academic year at USC, the school which produced the likes of Journey developers Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, Lemarchand has a few moments to reflect back on his transition from developer to educator. "I expected there to be a big, even jarring shifting of gears to have to deal with," Lemarchand tells Gamasutra, in reference to his professional transition. SkyFolio » So you want to work from home? Some of my students asked for tips about climbing the corporate ladder but truth be told, I hate the corporate ladder.
Every time I find myself getting promoted, I end up resigning shortly after — even from my best employers. I had been a work-from-home person for most of my career because I usually earn money from writing and doing art/tech when I find myself getting tired of the corporate world. For 2013, my typical week is roughly: Mondays: (At home) Prepare lectures for 3 hours + do game production work for 5 hoursTuesdays to Thursdays: Teach / do academic admin work for 3 hours + (at home) do production work for 5 hoursFridays: (At home) Do game production work or write research + run errandsSaturday: Industry meetings Depending on which part of the quarter, there could be more academic work load than production work load.
It sounds like I have a lot of free time, but this setup actually requires a lot of discipline. 5. 4. Just make sure that you stick to your calendar/planner. 3. 2. LinkedIn Best Advice. YC Sim's Blog - Making the Jump: my journey from Flash games to desktop games! The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. A few years ago, I made the huge decision to leave a comfortable, well-paying engineering job with a fairly large oil and gas firm to pursue a career as a game developer. In my country, Malaysia, that's a pretty strange career choice, in a land where many parents consider engineering and medicine as coveted jobs for their children. I don't make a life decision like that very lightly, of course, and I was already making sponsored games in my spare time by the time I left my job.
At the cost of having very little sleep over the nights and weekends, I had been beavering away, learning game development skills on the side, reading articles from Gamasutra, watching how the bigger developers make money from the Flash gaming market. Some of the key strategies I used throughout these years were: On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein, Illustrated by the Great Vladimir Radunsky. By Maria Popova The charming visual tale of an introverted little boy who grew up to become the quintessential modern genius. Given my soft spot for picture-book and graphic-novel accounts of famous lives, including Charles Darwin, Julia Child, Hunter S.
Thompson, Richard Feynman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Steve Jobs, I was instantly taken with On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (public library). Written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by none other than Vladimir Radunsky — the same magnificent talent who brought young Mark Twain’s irreverent Advice to Little Girls back to life in 2013, which topped the list of the year’s best children’s books and was among the year’s best books overall. The story begins with Albert’s birth — a beautiful but odd baby boy who turns one and doesn’t say a word, turns two, then three, and nary a word.
Instead, he “just looked around with his big curious eyes,” wondering about the world. It was the biggest, most exciting thought Albert had ever had. Recent Sales - FGL. Magic 95.1 Dumaguete on USTREAM: Magic 95.1 is DYSR-FM, a Top 40 (CHR) FM radio station broadcasting live from Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Interview with Nader Khalili, Cal-Earth. Architect Nader Khalili began his career in Iran. By the 1970’s he headed a thriving practice specializing in skyscrapers with offices in Tehran and Los Angeles.
But as the decade came to a close, he felt he'd lost his center. He gave up his lucrative practice and spent five years traveling the desert regions studying the vernacular architecture of his native country. It proved to be the turning point in his career, allowing him to test new building methods based on traditional construction such as his Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System and later his "Superadobe" system. In this interview, conducted in March 2005, Khalili talks about designing Lunar housing, working with the U.N., and his decision to abandon conventional wisdom and run his own race. Q: How did you start doing this kind of work? I really had a dream in my mind. I said ‘What if I set fire to earth buildings? When I closed my business I already had ten years of experience.
Then I thought, why can't he race alone? This is Why I'll Never be an Adult. I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has grown, but the results of exceeding it have not changed. Normally, my capacity is exceeded gradually, through the accumulation of simple, daily tasks. But a few times a year, I spontaneously decide that I'm ready to be a real adult. I don't know why I decide this; it always ends terribly for me. But I do it anyway. The first day or two of my plans usually goes okay. For a little while, I actually feel grown-up and responsible. At some point, I start feeling self-congratulatory. This is a mistake. I begin to feel like I've accomplished my goals. What usually ends up happening is that I completely wear myself out.
The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. Then the guilt from my ignored responsibilities grows so large that merely carrying it around with me feels like a huge responsibility. The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances - Part 6. Update: Blerch running shirts are now in stock! "I believe in The Blerch" running shirts are now available, as well as oversized fridge magnets and bumper stickers. View shirts and stickers here Notes from the author My current training The race I mentioned in the beginning of this comic is the White River 50 mile endurance run.
When I ran the race two years ago, I blogged about it here. I'm currently training for this same race again and as of the time of this writing it's about two weeks away. Boston Two years ago I did an interview with Men's Health where I mentioned trying to qualify for Boston. "I run to seek a void" This line came from Haruki Murakami's book What I talk about when I talk about running. Running books In addition to Murakami's book, here's a couple of my favorite books about running: Born to run A great book about the history, biology, and current state of running long distances. "But running is bad for your knees! " But running isn't for everyone, I get that. That's it! The Best Quotes From Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” Written By : John HawkinsDecember 6, 2010 Between 1942 and 1945, Viktor Frankl spent time in four different Nazi concentration camps. The experience was every bit as miserable as you’d imagine and then some.
His family died, he suffered horribly, and he spent years watching everyone around him suffering and dying. Out of this came Man’s Search for Meaning. In the first half of the book, Frankl talks about life in the concentration camp. It’s an extraordinarily powerful and insightful book. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers.
The meager pleasures of (Concentration) camp life provided a kind of negative happiness — “freedom from suffering” as Schopenhauer put it — and even that in a relative way only. Tears came to his eyes and I tried to comfort him. Dostoevski said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” The Doodler. The Doodler Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes works mainly with ordinary black pens to magically illustrate his “doodle” world. The 23-year old artist considers his art as a personal hobby which turned out to be his part-time freelance work after being recognized by various design blogs, international magazines and online communities. Most of his works are characterized by whimsical lines, patterns, characters and little elements that are spontaneously combined to create massive compositions depicting his everyday experiences or anything that inspires him.
He currently works as a graphic designer in a local company by day while making doodles by night for various clients and collaborating with other artists and design agencies around the world. Commissions? Requests? Bored Panda - Impressively Detailed Pen Doodles by Kerby RosanesPurple Leaves - Moleskine Notebook Art by Kerby RosanesARTBoom! Joris Dormans - game lecturer · scholar · designer - Home. Ralph Steadman Biography. Ralph Steadman was born on 15th May, 1936 in Wallesey, Liverpool. R.I am born... Ralph Steadman was born The first 5 years of Ralph life were spent in Wallasey. When the war began in 1939 and the horror or the Blitz began, Ralph remembers being woken by his mother to the keening of the air-raid siren. He would be carried down to the Anderson shelter and laid on a bunk in his bedding. To avoid the Blitz in 1940 he was bundled into his fathers Old Rover with his older sister, Barbara and off they went to the rolling hills of North Wales.
At the outbreak of war, the government issued statements to discourage discourse in Welsh, afraid that its use could be perverted somehow by German spies wanting to send information back to the Fuhrer. His favourite Welsh phrase remains:"Y tipyn bach y bo'peth" - a little bit of everything. The Blitz To avoid the Blitz in 1940 he was bundled into his fathers Old Rover Between 1947 and 1952 he attended Abergele Grammer School. School Between 1947 and 1952 Oddbins. Play Cloud Wars - Sunny Day. Cloud Wars Sunny Day - Play games and more online strategy games at GamesOnly.com! JJWALLACE GAMES. Advancement to excellence — How To Become A Top WordPress Developer. Wings Over Water. Construct 2. Ari Karpel. The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying. A palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put her findings into a book called ‘The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.’
It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make time for things that we truly love. Below is the list of each regret along with an excerpt from the book. At the bottom is also a link to the book for anyone interested in checking it out. One thing on regret before we get to the list. It’s important to remember that whatever stage we are at in life, there is no need for regret. The process of regret is one that provides nothing but suffering for ourselves as we begin to allow the past to dictate how we should feel now. Instead, we can use the past as a reference point to understand what adjustments we would like to make moving forward. 1. “This was the most common regret of all. 2. “This came from every male patient that I nursed. 3. 4. 5. Source: How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon.
Note: This article is also included in our year-end creative wisdom round-up. Few people get things done in as consistent and impressive a fashion as Joss Whedon. His Avengers was the rare superhero movie to break box office records as it garnered critical acclaim. And while he was editing that Marvel-Disney monster, he secretly shot a version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at his own house with friends from many of his previous movie and TV projects, including Clark Gregg (The Avengers), Nathan Fillion (Firefly), Amy Acker (Dollhouse), Fran Kranz (A Cabin in the Woods), and Alexis Denisof (Buffy).
Meanwhile, he’s the man behind the much-anticipated Marvel TV series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., also starring Gregg. As Much Ado hit theaters and kicked indie-film ass, Whedon sat down with Co.Create to lay out how he manages to juggle so many projects. His secret? Identifying concrete steps, friends, and tough love. In other words, get specific. “No,” he replies. For example? Pastel Stories » Mateusz Skutnik. Iconic Games. Gerrel Saunders on Behance. Play free games online. Mutate the Labrat 2. Gardensilly - Art and Illustration. Raph's Website. Real Life: Working At PopCap. RobotJAM LTD.
Untitled. Alan Kay Turing Lecture October 26th, 2004 OOPSLA '04 - Vancouver, Canada INTRODUCTION: The Turing Award is ACM's most prestigious technical award. If you look at past Turning laureates, it will read like a who's who of computer science. The Turing Award is given out annually to an individual who has contributed -- has given contributions of lasting major technical importance in the field -- and the Turing laureate is invited to give a talk on whatever topic they'd like at any ACM conference during the year, and we are privileged to have this year's laureate choose OOPSLA as their venue. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce Dr.
Alan Kay. He is a senior fellow at Hewlett Packard, he is president of Viewpoints Research Institute, and the Turing Award was given to him for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object oriented programming languages, for leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. Little Games Are Big Business at Armor Games - Page 1 - Arts - Orange County - OC Weekly. Flash Game Friday Winner: Orbits. Studios | Creative Works of John Cooney. Flash Game Blogs. Thread: Making a living off Flash game development? - FGL.
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