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Why Work Hard?

Posted on by magicrat_larry

What comes out of hard work?  I wondered this years ago and never really answered it.  Hard work in itself gives you nothing.  It is not something that by itself makes anything happen.  You have to be smart about what you are working hard on.  With the correct focus hard work can make great things.

How you choose what to focus on is the key to success and the American Dream.  Choose wisely and you will never be disappointed.  Don’t listen to people.  You don’t have to work hard on something you love either.  What? Why would you do that?  You can work hard on a smart idea that is not something you love and be successful at it.  Hard work gets you that.  The key to being happy though is to find something you like more that is still smart.

You cannot just work hard at the thing you love and expect great success.  The fact is the thing you love is probably dumb to work hard at for business success.  Find the next best thing that makes good sense and go for it.  I’m lucky, the one thing I love to do is make games, and here I am making one and it makes sense for business success.

If you have not seen the game I am a part of here are a few links…

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ViolentSol.com – Homepage

IndieDB – Indie Games Community with news, screenshots, and video

Game Development, It’s what’s for Lunch

Posted on by magicrat_larry

I tend to work through lunch.  Yes, even on the weekends.  The one thing that weekdays have going for them is that I actually eat a lunch.  The weekend I tend to just grab the computer and start plugging away as my daughter eats her food.  There is just so much to get done.

See, Violent Sol Worlds is getting close to launching a Steam Greenlight, and Kickstarter campaign both in relative closeness to each other.  The thought is we will launch Greenlight first and refine anything we need to in a couple of weeks.  Then launch Kickstarter and hopefully have more than my mom go to both of them.  I love my mom and all, but I kinda want to have somebody other than our families support this awesome title we are making.

So I am putting together the final coding of the game-play demo, which is just a little bit more.  I am also tasked with the Greenlight page which I would like done by end of day Tuesday so we can hit “GO” whenever we like on it.

Well wish us luck, and if you have not seen the game yet please go check it out, we have a webpage now – Violent Sol Worlds

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Getting Tired

Posted on by magicrat_larry

I’ve been attacking game development like a raging bull for over a year now.  What I mean by raging bull is, I get up at 5am and work for a while on it.  Then I go to work.  Then I come home and whenever I can I fit it in during the rest of the day until my daughter goes to sleep I work on the game.  Then I work for at least another hour, collapse and go to sleep.

I enjoy the schedule, I feel very rewarded every day, but, I am feeling tired, warn down, and a bit sleepy.  I think I need a weekend off.  I think it will suck, but I think at this point it is mandatory.  So my plan is to do nothing this weekend, maybe just keep up on the marketing stuff and sleep in, play games, and just relax.  I think I deserve it.

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