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Mark
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Hey man, your site and Vanilla are really kicken ass and takin names. Your doin an awesome job. Just wanted to say thanks, and keep up the good work.
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I'm workin' my buns off
Seriously though thanks for everything. I use Vanilla on 2 small private communities and for a very long time I looked for something like this and it works VERY well.
Love it. You kickass Mark, don't ever give up
I think I secretly have that same dream about programming. Well, not so secret anymore.
seriously mark, one of us has to get rich.... you are working with good odds here.
....thank you for everything.
How so? You think it's bad? You have experience of the field?
All the skills I have earned and learned are carefully chosen to aid me in my "quest", I have somewhat a natural talent in graphics design, I can use 4 different 3d modelling packages, I know Photoshop better than the back of my hand, I learned scripting and how game engines work, figured out different pipelines and I occasionally practice writing by writing my own short stories and create worlds in which they take place in (often in great detail from fashion to dialect economy and climate).
Games and especially making them is my life.
back to me
I simply doubt that there is any satisfaction to be had in an industry famous for unpaid overtime, lack of creative control, bad management, that is currently oversaturated with cheap college grads who think the industry is about being paid to play games or hash out broad concept designs, and that will likely suck the pleasure and excitement out of a subject you clearly have a significant amount of enthusiasm for.
It takes a lot of people to make a modern game, and most of those people are grinding mindnumbingly boring crap for not much money. The few who aren't mostly got in on the ground floor a decade ago.
That doesn't mean you can't succeed, or won't, just that the deck is stacked heavily against you. I wish you good luck, and hopefully a decade from now you can laugh at me for being so pessimistic.
And yes, usually being on that side will kill your gaming hobby as you would most likely see playing other games as work.
Now having said that the reason I'm interested is because I hardly play many games, I'm always concentrated on the development side of things, always been more interested in that side (aside from the crappy pay of course).