[IGDA_indies] what are people actually focused on?

[Tom Spilman]

> So what are your passions?  Forget about what the indies or 
> the industry 'needs'.  What do you actually care about?

 Spending the rest of my career writing games that I (and hopefully others)
enjoy.  To do this well I have to find ways to compete with the flood of
mainstream titles.  So my short term goal is to do it better, faster, and
cheaper.  

 So far I've found that it's heavily leveraging of cheap or free tech and
not writing "a graphics engine" or implementing my own scripting language.
I've grown to feel that time spent doing these things is pointless more
often than not.  Engines like Ogre3D and Torque are very useable if you just
do things their way.  

 I'm also interested in algorithmic generation of content.  This can be as
simple as artist tools, to the random garbage blown around the city streets
of Grand Theft Auto, or generation of entire city blocks.

  Tom Spilman
  Co-owner | Programmer
  www.sickheadgames.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: indies-bounces at igda.org 
> [mailto:indies-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Brandon J. Van Every
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:56 PM
> To: Indie SIG mailing list
> Subject: [IGDA_indies] what are people actually focused on?
> 
> Ok, I'm not convinced that vision statements in the abstract 
> are getting us anywhere.  Time for another approach.
> 
> What are you each really focused on right now?  How could the 
> IGDA Indie SIG be an extension of what you're already putting 
> your energy into?
> 
> For my part, I am focused on higher level languages, 
> functional programming, and OCaml specifically.  I am 
> interested in open source technologies that improve the 
> productivity of a game programmer.  I want to see the 
> industry adopt languages other than C++, which I consider to 
> be a complete timewaster.  Why do I care what languages other 
> people use?  Because I'd like to get paid a lot of $$$$$$ 
> consulting my 'superior expertise' in some other language or 
> technology someday.  That is not possible with C++, Java, or 
> C# as they are commodities.  They fit well into corporate 
> bureaucracies, they do not give any particular advantages to 
> individual programmers.  They are emminently offshoreable.
> 
> So what are your passions?  Forget about what the indies or 
> the industry 'needs'.  What do you actually care about?
> 
> 
> Cheers,                         www.indiegamedesign.com
> Brandon Van Every               Seattle, WA
> 
> 20% of the world is real.
> 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.
> 
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