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Fighting with Time

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Hello Everybody,

It’s a long time since I last posted here something…

Well, what is the first thing that you should be aware if you are an indie dev? The answer is easy: the project scope. Oh yes, you read this time after time, maybe you are a leader in the IT business with a lot of experience, but still you make the usual mistake.

I was working on a network layer for years to create my dream game. The framework, the basics with a complete network layer is done. So I thought that now maybe I should go part-time and start my indie life. I tried it, and well 2 days a week extra for my weekends wasn’t enough to accomplish my goal. It’s still not enough, unfortunately. My scope is just too big for now.

That’s why I started a smaller project. Here I made the mistake to choose a game style that isn’t interesting to me at all. Yes! Another failed project.

Lessons learned, but I’m still fighting with time.

But hey! “Lessons learned” right? So know I’m ready to start and finish something! In fact it did happen: I made a language learning hidden object game called “Hidden Animals: English – Spanish”. The scope was small and I’m really interested in language learning. It’s not the best game on the world, neither too much innovative, but it’s a product. It’s something that I can offer for people. That’s a good feeling.

I think all of us will learn our lessons themselves. And it’s better than not learning them.

May I ask you to vote to my game on steam greenlight?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=889470433

Thanks and have a nice day!

Short Summary About Living as an Indie Game Developer

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Hello everybody,

If you wonder how it’s going as an Indie developer, well I can tell you… It’s awesome and it’s very tiring.

Doing YOUR stuffs is a great thing, but until you get paid, moreover paid well… it’s likely that you have some contract works just as I have. I work 3 days from a week in the business industry. This day was one of them… And now I’m collecting contacts into my CRM system, and I post some lines here. Yes, these are included in the package called “indie developer life”.

Needless to say: It’s worth it.

Building my Brand and Homepage

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Hello everybody,

That’s my first post… on my own blog! Wow! One small step for a man… Well, eventually i was able to build the very first version of my homepage, blog and forum. I used bootstrap and some usual css/html stuffs to my homepage, and wordpress to create my blog and forum.

WordPress offers a free plugin to establish your forum faster which is called “bb Press“. It’s pretty fine until you would like to unable users to post new topics. For that scenario I found a small plugin (used by only 7 people including myself) to restrict them. It’s called “bbP Toolkit” and I strongly recommend it because it has many other features and it’s free.

Templates for WordPress are kinda messy. There are just way too much for given purposes, but I wanted a simple but still deeply customizable one. After I failed to find any on the wordpress themes finder page, I tried to find old free to download premium templates. These old ones (actually mine is from 2009) are pretty simple and give the desired customization options. The only thing that I had to do for them to opt in to a newsletter.

I know that my sites are still just “OK”, but I think they are totally acceptable. Later on when I will have some income from my strategy games, I will hire some freelancers to make better sites.

I hope you read here some useful stuffs. Cheers!