These Are the Days of Our Gamedev Lives
So Last Friday, it was fun. Fun like taking a kick to the zinger fun. Here is how it all went down…
I started my day as normal, no problems. Got to work and Aaron, our architect, let me know his car broke down. So that is terrible for him. We worked our normal, day job, day. Then go to the weekly game development meeting for Violent Sol Worlds. In this meeting we see the final art for some cars etc. Then we begin to discuss the Kickstarter video.
See, we have somebody else helping us edit the video down and make it great. That person is busy. So we debate how to move forward to meet our deadline we set for the Kick to launch. We figured we would end up editing the video ourselves. Then we kept talking.
At this point I threw out the questions of, why not delay the launch, to start the conversation. Then my head started to freak out. Yes, one more delay. I knew it was the right thing to do, but delaying one more week seemed like I was being asked to kill a puppy. It was hard. 
I tried to rationalize it away as I could take a week off and get ready for the deep dive in to design that we will have to take. That did not work. I then realized that I had to convince myself that the video will be much better because we wait the week and that we will be better off for it. That seemed to calm my brain down a lot. I also had to get myself in to a head space of there will be no more delays beyond that. 
So the basics is that we are slipping one more week on the Kickstarter we had planned to launch really soon. So we basically were done with our meeting at that time. We did what we always do, and walked out to the parking lot. At which time Ben, sees his car tire is flat.
What a lovely day for game development. It was a great test for the team to have nearly all of us have some sort of mental test that pushed us to a breaking point. We held together, and made what I think were great choices. Like I always say, when the world gives you lemons, it’s a trick, get an axe.
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