It's amusing to see this guy's story circulate from the indie gaming forums (where it showed up a few weeks ago) onto Hacker News. Everyone already agrees that

It's amusing to see this guy's story circulate from the indie gaming forums (where it showed up a few weeks ago) onto Hacker News. Everyone already agrees that he's doing the wrong thing if he wants to be successful, and that he's got a degree of dedication that would allow him to sell his title independently for other platforms (computer, Xbox Arcade, etc.) or join an existing company. Everyone is also bothered by his extremely huge ego, which rivals that of Lord British (Richard Garriott) himself. He's trying to aspire to some sort of weird ideal of being one of the last single-person developers who publishes a mainstream console title, something which doesn't really exist anymore. It's noble, but foolhardy. He's just hard to write off, because he's not just some loser who is being unrealistic. He is an insanely devoted, multi-talented person who is being unrealistic.