My biggest paradigm shifts in game development have been in direct correlation to spontaneity and taking things head on usually with reckless abandon. (It doesn't work for all, just those with hard heads).
I just recently received a new laptop. An early Christmas present if you want to consider it as such as the holidays are here. I'm not embarrassed to say that, my biggest paradigm shifts in game development have been in direct correlation to spontaneity and taking things head on usually with reckless abandon. (It doesn't work for all, just those with hard heads).
I have to say, booting up windows 7, feeling the power of the laptop and fan's purr at a steady triple digit FPS on my game that I've only seen running hoggishly on my current rig I'm writing to you now on. Its a welcome change.
Everything changes, your place of work, your living situation, and most importantly, you change. Time goes on and you either mature or de-evolve (yes, it can happen depending the context) and we must factor for our pitfalls and our heavenly stairways accordingly. Be prepared to take on what life throws at you and instead of holding up the entire train, roll on through and make the best of it.
There never will be an ideal situation for any large decision. (See: Idiocracy and child birthing). There simply is times in your life you CHOOSE to begin, or end whatever it is you want. People like to wait until they have enough money, are stable enough, have the job, have proven themselves to their peers, and various other unregulated undocumented rule-sets that are almost completely unrelated to the end to just START DOING WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
This isn't a pep talk, a one way feed into the mind of a sporadically energetic youngster with a head full-a dreams. No, this is a solid, consistent realization that you must choose on your own terms how your life is to unfold. This also can be likened to some weak levels of existentialism, but then again how can you discuss life without discussing it's context per topic.
Bottom line is if there is nothing else you take away from this rambling repose of previous events: You choose when to begin, no one else does. Your money, your car, your family, your troubles. These are all excuses and at worst defined challenges meant to be overcome to just start doing what needs to be done. Do not let them wear or weigh you down. They are meant to be overcome, and no one will initiate that except you. Just because there is no one hailing from the corners of your exact interests does not mean people will not fall in love with it. Do not be afraid to be a frontiersman if it means doing what you personally want to do.
Go get 'em tiger
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