Words can shape our world. They can make us happy or sad. This week has been a curvy mountain road. Earlier this week, I was reading someone’s postings and got blindsided by how cruel they were. I felt insulted. So much so that I had to stop reading them. Just walk away. Did the person realize how much hate they were spewing? Probably not. I would rather my words be of the positive and not the negative. If problems are given, offer solutions. There is enough wrong in this world that pointing fingers does not help.
Blogging on Monday was derailed by those negative words. Tuesday was a day of happy. I couldn’t darken that day with a rant. Wednesday became a weird day where everything took twice as long as it felt like it was taking. So here we are to Thursday.
I want my words to pull you to the positive. To see that I am going in the right direction for me. To make you happy, not sad. So what have I been doing that is positive?
This week has been about controllers for Maze Pseudo. By controllers, I mean game controllers like you would have on a PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo console. Maze Pseudo is a game I have been playing in one form or another for 30 years. I have rewritten it at least 5 times for different platforms in that. But this week was the first time I had ever been able to play it with a joystick. It was always meant to be played with two joysticks, but until now, most of the platforms I developed it for didn’t have popular support for controllers. It is a different experience with a controller. I love playing it with a controller. So it is okay even if I am the only one that plays it with a controller. The work has been worth it just for that.
I have also been asked several times recently “What do you do?” Meaning the thought is that I sit at home, do nothing, watch TV, or play games. I actually am programming. I work at it 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Some of my hours are occupied by taxes, accounting, or dealing with adjusting office/work space. I have a PO box that I should visit at least once a week. I have a job. The only difference is that I am the one responsible for making sure I have something to work on and that the work gets done.
As for what I program, it depends. Last month it was a couple of weeks for a Facebook game (Sudoku Pseudo). The past couple weeks have been devoted to making updates to an iPhone game (Maze Pseudo). So technically, that makes me a game developer at the moment. But it is not just games that I work on. Several of my future projects are not games. One of them is one I already spent a significant amount of time one and abandoned a couple years ago. It is not a game. Technology has become available that makes that project viable again. I have plans for other projects on Mac, Windows, Android, and game consoles, both games and not games.
So you can call me a Game Developer, a Facebook Developer, or an iPhone Developer. You could simply call me a Software Developer.
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