Hello everyone, how were you doing?
Christmas holidays passed and so did a new year. I wished everyone for those occasions via twitter but I didn’t take time to write something more on my precious blog. I have reasons for that though….
Anyway, it’s time for classic new year resolution. To think about previous year and the future, so let’s start with the past:
Past:
Year 2011 was tough yet big one for me. I had many downfalls trough the year which took quite some life energy from me but I’ve managed to get trough somehow – it gets hard but with enough will and some surprises in life you can overcome everything. I will not go all emotional and personal, so I’ll just reveal some positive stuff that happened around my gamedev life :D
I worked a lot on my projects and on my framework, so let’s take a look what I’ve been doing:
- I’ve released my second finished and polished game John Cube
- Some crazy idea that sounded good only in my head – project Time Sphere
- Participated in my first Ludum Dare with the project Courier of the Crypts LD
- Started Project 210 with my friend
- Worked on a project Sky Wizzard for Slovenian first online game development jam
- Started new, shiny, bigger and even more creepy version of the Courier of the Crypts
- Participated in TIGS Advent Calendar with the entry Prepare for Christmas
- Started one-man gamedev studio Emberheart Games which will represent Courier of the Crypts.
One of the other important things I’ve done is the changed framework which is used by the new Courier of the Crypts now. With the framework I removed 40% of the code and it enables me to work faster and more efficient on my game(s). There were other projects as well but these are worth to be highlighted.
Next to that, I’ve got this big job in the game industry around the September which was a big step for me and my goals. In the early years of the primary school we had to write down what do we want to be when we grow up, and I simply wrote “Game developer”. There were laughs here and there even later but hey, I’m developing games now for a living!
That’s it for the year 2011. From the valley of death I’ve climbed to the shiny hills and let me tell you it’s a nice view from there 
Future:
Hmm…well, there are lots of plans for the 2012, one of the biggest is surely to finish and release Courier of the Crypts for selling. Then there are other stuff as well….
- More lurking and participating around the forums
- Take more time for reading books
- Party hard (means – find time for parties)
- Learn Unity
- Get fit (sitting at the work and sitting at home makes you go Bubba the Hut )
- Buy sword
- Attend GDC Europe
- Have nice summer holidays
- Don’t be late for work
- Survive