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by eswat 12y ago
Without knowing a lot about how much time you have to put into this, I’d say writing your own engine for The Awesomest Game Ever and have it in a polished state for a summer release seems like you’re asking a lot from yourself. Find out wha
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by eswat 12y ago
Yup, at least once a day, usually lunch for post-workout. Slow cooker, oven, skillet are my main weapons and sometimes a blender.
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by eswat 12y ago
It’s weird seeing specific services slowly get the red flag on the status page that have seemingly all gone down at the same time. I can’t listen to any of my music from iTunes Match, which still shows Green on the status page. But I get an
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by eswat 12y ago
It’s good timing to take a look at the Seeking Freelancer thread on HN. You may not find a client close to you but as long as you can deliver a project in exchange for what you’re looking for, then it’s a good deal.
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by eswat 12y ago
Proper payment across currencies can become thorny and lead to unintended delays in payment. I noticed this more with bigger companies who insist on payment by cheque and need the figure out the logistics of creating it and mailing it prope
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by eswat 12y ago
If there’s nothing in the contract or IP agreement with your current employer saying you can’t work for other companies on your own time, and that the work you do on your own time isn’t owned by them, then I don’t see any legal grounds they
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by eswat 12y ago
Don’t back out of anything – shy of walking into a dark alley in downtown Winnipeg at night – just because it scares you. Your ability to take risks and just shrug off the bad results will diminish with age. So use this time to do the stupi
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by eswat 12y ago
I also try to pay in plastic as often as possible for travel and cashback rewards. Assuming you pay your card on-time, we’re the minority. For most a credit card is just a debt machine and if those same people had to pay with tangible cash
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by eswat 12y ago
Sorry if I’m not quite answering the question. But you can also try consulting, continue what you’re doing now, and rebalance the three things that factor into this: time, income and expenses. So if you want to increase your discretionary t
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by eswat 12y ago
If you’re in a decent tech hotbed, start by interacting with the local community. Talk to other developers, agency owners, startup founders and see if you can offer them help. It’s a different dynamic than trying to find a consulting gig on
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by eswat 12y ago
Not sure about the history behind the sounds in the remake, but I don’t think there was anything nefarious about the coincidence. Using stock audio was and still is very common. There are many sound effects from the original StarCraft – suc
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by eswat 12y ago
…and most of the industry I think. It’s very hard to find a game these days where emergent gameplay exists because developers have been getting paranoid about players not experiencing their game they want them to experience it.
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by eswat 12y ago
I would like to say that my business is my top priority. But it’s not. Taking care of myself – body, mind and spirit – is. But when I take care of myself then the other parts of running my business fall neatly into place. Three times a week
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by eswat 12y ago
Was linked to this a few days ago. Good luck with the funding campaign, looks like you’re nearly there! I’ve been getting into gamedev in my spare time recently and have been reading a lot of devlogs to learn a bit more about the process so
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John Carmack .plan Files on GitHub(github.com)
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by eswat 12y ago
> I never would have guessed that. The tech press keeps telling me how hot mobile is and how lame PC's are. I think part of it is the demographic. While I’m not much of a mobile gamer and biased towards PCs a bit, I believe the PC m
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by eswat 12y ago
Theatre of the Gods by Matt Suddain is an epic read. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is one of the few books I’ll reread every few years. Both are sci-fi. And, while not technically a book but a manga, Appleseed by Masamune Shirow is anoth
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by eswat 12y ago
I’m in my late twenties. What I found was to establish a routine around the times where I find I’m most productive. So I’m not a night owl and can’t code into the evenings like you. I prefer to get up early and plow through stuff in the mor
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by eswat 12y ago
Right. In the documentary’s case you can see multiple people contributing to then end product: one will head to the market to gather the fish, one to cook the rice, one to massage the meat if needed, one to smoke the meat if needed, etc. Ev
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Everyone is going to have their own special exceptions. I also don’t agree that books are easy to move: they are heavy, take up a lot of space and require special care to package properly. Which sucks because I much prefer the experience of
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by eswat 12y ago
I believe her technique is effective because it tries to combat hoarding using the same kind of emotional response that gets us to stockpile on stuff in the first place. Others will suggest attacking the problem with logic: “Do you need thi
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by eswat 12y ago
From Ottawa, Canada. Before I had a very loose daily structure but was noticing my output and general health was suffering, so trying to stick to this structure on weekdays: 6:30 - Alarm on gym days, otherwise I just naturally wake up aroun
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by eswat 12y ago
It’s definitely worth it to explore other fields. You got one shot at this and there’s more to life than just tech, even if it’s your desired vocation. You’re still a human being and IMHO it’s brazen to think that one could be a healthy, ha
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by eswat 12y ago
Yeah I alternate. There’s about six within a 10-minute walking distance of my house, so if I feel I’m not really getting any work done I’ll just move onto the next or come home for a quick nap. Working at these places is not for everyone, s
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by eswat 12y ago
I freelance. I can’t be productive at all working from home, so I just work at coffeeshops, anywhere from a 1-minute walk or a 20-minute bus ride.
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by eswat 12y ago
Here’s a very brief gist of the Canadian government programs applicable to startups. You’re looking at either IRAP or SR&ED (aka SHRED), the former being a <$50k grant and the latter being tax credits. Because one is finite cash and
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by eswat 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Ottawa, Canada or Remote I’m a digital product design consultant, able to design and implement my work in Node and Ruby environments (I dual-wield design experience with a computer science background). I have worked with star
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by eswat 12y ago
Didn’t Apple claim they had already hit that limit at 326ppi with iPhone 4? Seems we’re enter ludicrous ranges now…
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by eswat 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Ottawa, Canada or Remote I’m a digital product design consultant, able to design and implement my work in Node and Ruby environments (I dual-wield design experience with a computer science background). I have worked with star
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Good article and pretty timely with the release of Destiny, which suffers greatly from the issues mentioned here: masking addictive random-number-generator gameplay and lackluster storytelling with great visuals and promises that this is ju

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