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@filthyranter XD

@emamut maybe you've something with wk114 in your mind? Get it out in front of us

@filthyranter There's a related one to this account too: r e c r u i t r

Truth. The passion for programming comes from developing a skill and being able to produce value. It's not like a passion for guitar in that it's super expressive and cool. Programming is like solving puzzles. Might not be an interesting skill but it is kinda cool to be able to say you're good at it.

Programming is fun when your software makes you money while you're out doing fun things.

Programming sucks when, your latest push results in mass anger and refunds because you were hungover from doing said fun things.

i disagree. We just dont get enough time in employment to ever actually finish anything. When I code by myself I am like an artist. I am perfectionistic maybe, but I know exactly where I am going and the results are beautiful.
But in a job you are just hired to make something work and so you roughly carve out the essential parts and glue them together and in the process you are constantly betraying your own craftsmanship. But people from the outside just think its so simple and they want to see results they can understand.

@DLMousey sorry for that

@simulate thats why I code my own software and sell it myself, fuck jobs and fuck freelancing

I don't get why more people here don't do the same.

@rant1ng what kind of software do you write and where do you sell it? You should write a guide for this ^^ a guide to freedom :D
I am working on this game which I plan to sell when its done. But it wont be any time soon, because the main point is to make a sweet game. So I have to work nowadays.

@simulate I've always wanted to make a game, since I was a kid in the early 90's. An rpg, actually. I started playing again recently and I'm apalled at the rpgs today, like, holy shit, it's gambling.. its shit. And the money they make, my god... the poor kids they are hustling... its sad really. I want to make an rpg that is a cross between a street fighter style game and dragon warrior or final fantasy.

Anyway, about that book... I'm way ahead of you....

https://devrant.com/rants/1547645/...

@rant1ng That book is relevant! not only could you earn money from it, you could easily become more widely known in the world of entrepeneurship and programming profession and actually change how people work in the future. All the best for you, looking forward to this 👍

@rant1ng
and about games... I feel exactly the same about the game industry. The games nowadays are like the movies nowadays. Just wrap up old ideas in a new package and sell it again. And because so many games use pre made engines nowadays, they are all missing this depth, this deep architecture that makes the game feel well put together and as one piece. All these games look and feel kind of the same, and they seem incomplete and vague. thats why I decided right off the bat, I will make my own engine, specifically tailored to my idea. this will take a long time, but its fun and I am constantly learning about so many different things. maths, physics, psychology, art, music, storytelling, game theory, biology... you can put anything in that list actually, because games just simulate "a" reality.

@simulate Thanks for that man.. appreciate it

about your game and working in the meantime, and to anybody else reading this, some simple advice:

it won't get done ,if you don't actually do it.

There is a graveyard of broken dreams, and everyone in it says "I have to work for now but I"ll start my ______ soon". Over the past 20 years, that's like what 99% of people say, and NONE of them ever get anywhere.

even if it's 30 minutes a day... do it... one day, it's done

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to do side projects and they succeeded

because it rarely happens....I mostly finish products when I drop everything and dedicate my life to it. That's kind of what it takes.

But if you have to have a job while you build something else... be sure to touch on it every single day, even if it's just 30 minutes a day.

and don't take weekends off, that's for wimps

@rant1ng believe me, I dont slack on my game ^^ I get what you mean, if you dont do anything you will never get there, but if you do something you CAN ACTUALLY get there, which is what I think many people dont believe in.

But my vision of this game has occurred to me so clear and exciting, I can motivate myself with that everyday and I code and code.