Guild Wars vs Everquest 2!

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After finishing my new game Magic Stones I took a break and started to play both Guild Wars and EQ2. I was scared because I know they are very addictive for a roleplay-lover like me, but anyway I decided to try.
Is fun because I bought Guild Wars after trying a free-10 hours trial from ATI website. Found the game very cool and though “wow no monthly fee!”
BUT.. after playing it for a while – how boring. At least compared to EQ2 !
The worst thing of Guildwars is that every time you start a mission the mosters respawn all. So you have to fight your way again into several monsters, worth almost no experience to a group. Waste of time 🙁
On the other hand, EQ2 rulez. Really, is a impressive improvement over the old good EQ (I played it for 3 years).
The only problem is that has very high requirements… at least, on my “OLD” Athlon 1.6Ghz, 512m RAM and Radeon 9000, runs slow as hell, while Guild Wars was much more playable… 🙁

Concentration…

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Had tough days lately, with the release of Magic Stones and … cats. Is really hard to mantain concentration while 4-5 cats roam freely through the house, jumping, screaming, crashing things.
My girlfriend just don’t understand how is hard to mantain concentration and work in such conditions. She wants to help the cats because they’re ill, weak, outside is cold, etc. But I suppose we need money to live (and to feed the cats).
How I am supposed to get money without working? this sucks, when you work at home people think that you’re always no holidays doing nothing.
Is a really common thing, other developers told me that they have same problem, maybe not with cat but with kids or simply their wife.
Instead of being grateful that we can stay together, girlfriends and wives usually break our balls. Is so hard to find someone who understand you completely! not that in this particular case is so difficult…hope things will get better.

Magic Stones beta out!

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I’m very happy to announce that finally I finished the beta of Magic Stones. I’m letting testers test it a while then hopefully I’ll be able to release it by next week or sooner!
The testers reactions so far were very good, I’m glad of it 🙂
If you’re curious, look at the game page (still hidden from my main site):
http://www.winterwolves.com/magicstones.htm

Feeling at home

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Some days are really strange. Today I came back home (to my parents home) after 2 weeks in my new house (about 2h of driving). I was just arrived, eating some delicious “Lasagne” made by my mother, when my brother came home in a hurry because he had to play a match of 5-a-side soccer (that small version of soccer known in Italy as “calcetto”).
I decided to go playing, so I could see again some old-friends. It was a strange sensation. Just 4 years ago, I was seeing them all weekends when we were going out to have fun (and maybe drink too much!).
Now I saw them after 2-3 months, a long time. Still I felt happy and we did the usual jokes, even if I noticed that the time has passed. One of them was talking about the joy of having a son… I think he is ready for that himself 😉
Then played the match as Goalkeeper (I usually play that role), and when I came back home and checked the mail – surpirse- sold a copy of my game “The Goalkeeper”!!!
Now that’s what I call a coincidence…!

Best time/situation to start…?

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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!