While Thanksgiving is an American holiday, I figure that this post might appeal to a few of you international readers as well. What are you thankful for as an independent game developer?
I can name a few things:
- Quick and easy access to information on the world wide web covering a range of topics from game design to programming to marketing to personal development.
- Inexpensive or freely available game development tools, such as compilers, game engines, 2D/3D art creation applications, and even operating systems.
- Ease of distribution of digital data.
- Personal contacts made through various forums, including the Indie Gamer forums and ASP newsgroups
- Love…of roller coasters.
- The people in #gamedevelopers on irc.starchat.net
- Compound interest.
- Qatfish.
- The knowledge that I am capable of much more and that I haven’t done anything compared to what I have the potential to do.
- My blog readers, who sometimes act as my conscience and keep me accountable to my goals.
Happy thanksgiving!
2 replies on “Indie Game Developers Thankful for…”
Thanks for including us 🙂 Although it seems you don’t visit whenever i’m on.
Yeah, it is strange how we can’t always be on at the same time. turbo, however, is on almost all the time. B-)