free thoughts of Winter Wolves Games programmer

Best time/situation to start…?

September 28th, 2005 Posted in general

Many newbies ask this question: my answer is “as soon as you can”.
Seriously, there’s absolutely no reason to delay. If you’re still living with your parents, that’s the best situation ever.
Later if you go living on your own, you’ll realize how easy is to waste whole morning or afternoons for “trivial tasks” like going to town, cleaning the house, etc.
So if you aren’t engaged, live with your parents, I’d say it’s the ideal situation to start your indie business!

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  1. 3 Responses to “Best time/situation to start…?”

  2. By GBGames on Sep 29, 2005

    I agree. But I really would prefer to live on my own. B-)

  3. By Jack Norton on Sep 29, 2005

    Well in this case, you HAVE to be prepared to work part-time, unless you can program a game like Zuma in 2-3 months… :)

  4. By sharpfish on Oct 5, 2005

    I started while I was living with my Fiancee’, working full time, loads of real life stress etc… For the past 6 months I’ve been doing games development full time and realise how much time I wasted in previous years (when I did work at home and COULD have started). So sound advice, start as soon as you can and learn from mistakes earlier!

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