The Little World Inside a Box
So, what’s the problem with this blog posts, huh? How come people create blogs and then don’t write in them? Imagine building a house, spending weeks deciding what color the drape should be, which faucets, which tiles and then still not write anything in your fucking blog!
Every time I want to write something, I feel like I need to spend a few thousand words on them or it’s not enough. So what happens is that I start writing something thinking “Ah, yeah, I know what I want to write” and then a few hundreds words later I realize it’s going to be a small essay that will take me hours to complete. And then I have to read it again and find out all the typos, mistakes, sentences that don’t sound quite right and so on. But what can I do?
2022 is here, happy new year. My new year resolution is to stop trying to be a perfectionist, allowing myself to create things that suck a little. There’s a sentence I like from a book on game design: “Your first 10 games are going to suck, so get them out of the way quickly”. I want to have that attitude with all the things I want to do in my life.
Music Production/Recording
I bought the equipment and recorded a couple of songs. They’re just covers and, although far from perfect, I’m happy I started. It’s great and I was able to record all instruments, drums, bass, guitars and voice, completely by myself. The whole process of recording and mixing is great. It’s obvious good equipment is just the beginning. Studio recording really is a punch in the guts when it comes to pointing out your mistakes, but I’d rather doing it while sucking than not doing it at all. 8 more to go! :D
TODO: Practice playing more, learn more tools, especially synth. Start writing your goddamn songs!
Game Development
It’s been years since I tried to do it at first and here we are again. I get that in the past I wasn’t really motivated in learning, but now that I’m working as a game development it makes sense for me to focus on this. It’s also true I might not do this forever, but I know that if I decided not to learn properly I would regret it. I think I got the basics, but instead of trying to understand how everything works under the hood, I need to find an engine and work with it. I have been playing with Pixi.js, which is a pretty good rendered, but I need a proper engine to make games.
TODO: Decide which engine to use. Maybe go back to HTML5 Games Dev. Get back into Unity. Make at least 3 games.
And that brings us to…
Game Design
I started reading the game design book and I’ve read several chapters, but I always find myself stopping because just learning design doesn’t translate into anything. Well, I’m neither wrong nor right, but more code-y, less think-y.
TODO: Keep reading about game design and keep working on my games. Ideally, create a couple that kind of suck but are better than nothing.
Game Related Creative Stuff
This is not ideal but I can’t just take other people’s assets and make stuff with it, at least for now. I need to give my stuff some personality, even if it sucks. I’m currently learning pixel art and I have a ton of blender related courses. So why not? I have time, I just need to sit down and learn how to do it.
TODO: Learn to create assets, both in 2D and in 3D.
Writing
Well, here we go. The final point of the list, since I’m currently doing it. I like writing, I don’t think I’m good at it, but I enjoy the process. I want to work on my rules for life. That’s a list currently stuck on point 2 and that’s not even half of the points I have in mind (and written somewhere), so that’d be great to finish. But I have so much in my head I want to write down, mostly thanks to all the books I’ve been reading. On top of that, I want to write a story. I have written down the synopsis, well, probably more than that. I have all the points of the story and now I just need to start putting it down. I’m just afraid I will ruin it with my lack of writing skills, but what can I do? The story needs to be told. It’s really good!
TODO: Write at least 2 posts per week. Keep writing big posts, even if it takes a while. Start to write that novel/story. Consider buying a course to learn how to write.
Perfect! I only need 48 hour days now!
PS: The box is my head