Having that lifestyle let me save enough money to just take some time off when I needed it. I saved and lived a pretty frugal life (even now I try my best to live below my means). I decided to take a year off to work on what I wanted to work on (and just live off of my savings). The corporate development environment was just weighing on me. Around March of 2013, I just needed some time off. How'd you get started with your business? The games I build try to capture that feeling, but in the context of a busy adult who just doesn't have those kinds of hours of gaming available to them. I just really miss being able to escape into a new world. I will never forget staying up late at night playing a video game (with the volume turned down so my parents don't hear). It's frankly hard to do that when you have short play cycles and the limited attention of a busy adult. Most mobile games don't capture that feeling of escape I used to get. Being in my thirties, it's hard to find time to play the games I played when I was a child (where you have to sit for a good few hours to make progress).
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Here's the soapbox I usually jump onto when someone asks me about what type of games I build: NET development (C#) and then later branched out into Node.js, Rails, and mobile.Ĭurrently, I'm an indie (mobile) game developer.
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My career before 2013 was mostly as a contractor for hire (through consulting firms). I graduated from college in 2006 with a degree in Computer Science. Who are you, and what are you working on?