Still Alive
Yes, I am still alive!
The last few months have been difficult for me, and there have been a bunch of changes, so I haven’t made time to blog. (Note, you always have time, you just don’t make time!).
I am going to try to correct that and start blogging at least once a week again, although due to my change in circumstances the content of the blog posts may drift from games occasionally, although the direction they will drift will probably cover agile management, project management and coding, so they should still stay interesting.
So what is the big change then? Well, due to a severe lack of funds, and the increase in living costs incurred from moving into a nice house instead of the bedroom that we were living in, I had to start searching for a job. And I found one, a good one, working for this little provincial newspaper called The Guardian, you may have heard of it. I am working with the web development team building the software and website for the new look guardian website.
It’s an exciting opportunity, because although it’s totally unrelated to the games industry, it is related to my second love, which is agile software development. I’m getting a chance to work in a fully XP environment, pair programming, unit testing and so forth.
In the meantime, my business carries on, the web hosting business is making enough money to tide itself over, and although because of the stress of starting a new job has given me a pause in working on the game I am continuing to work on the game in the background.
Anyway, a blog post on accepting and learning from failure will be coming next…