Ventures of an ex indie game developer

free(time)

I've been busy excavating at the back of the house, preparing a big fucking patio. I rented a mini excavator and dug a couple of days by hand as well. Planted concrete forming tubes and prepped for the carpenters, who'll help me rig some planks; I'll do the floor myself. It's wonderful to not work with programming all day+all night. Hmm. Can't let this become a habit.

I'm currently reading some book of Elisabeth George. It's so boring I can't even remember what it's called. But somehow, and for some reason I can't justify to myself (let alone for anyone else), I'm going to read through the whole damn thing. I've always been one of those "finishers". I watch the whole movie, even though it sucks ass and I'd like to strangle the script writer. I've only put aside very few books which were too dull. I don't even throw away books, not even the bad ones. I think it has something to do with saving, or rather being cheap; but usually I'm able to rationalize it using feelings (don't we all, oh the embarrassment).

When I'm done with that I'll study. Things I should have studied a long time ago, and things I'd wanted to study for a long time. Sure, programming like Lisp and Haskell and other science fields are probably going to be part of it, but also geography, religion (Christianity sounds dull, but I've promised a couple of christian friends I'd do that as well), history, politics, art, architecture, and most of all literature. I'm looking forward to reading the classics. Damn it's fun to have time to do what you've yearned for a long time.

So maybe after all I shouldn't do that Tekken/Int. Karate+ clone now after all. It would be really nice to make a tiny game so I'd get more time for other stuff. Mm. What's in my idea drawer. Let's see.
  • Tekken/Int. Karate+ clone
  • Bacteria eater
  • 3D ball shooter
  • Knobbelen (Dutch die)
  • Cowboy bank shooter (idea stolen from some C64 I once saw, I think)
  • Ignition-style
  • Crazy hoArse
  • Pick up toys using a "Carneval crane".
  • Cyber Sled re-make
  • Hold off the attacking robots
  • Clone of Bloons, but in 3D
  • Mimic that swipe-pattern
  • Swipe away from your stalkers
  • Your UFO strike
  • WW2 tank vs. tank (done very well a couple of times already on iOS)
  • Shape-shifting, fleeing animal made up by particles
  • Sniper
  • Impossible Mission clone
  • Dinosaur - YEAH!
  • Bards Tail clone
  • Physics sandbox: place things in the world, make them go
  • Fantastic Contraption clone with a twist
  • Game creator (this one sounds like fun, but don't know what it is)
  • Flocking (mhm, a bit vague for an idea, isn't it?)
  • Ragdoll goalkeeper
  • Save Earth from the aliens
  • Maaad using genitals as obstacles (I'd have to use some type of auto-update to get this through the AppStore review team)
  • Forklift puzzle
  • Programming
  • 3D Helicopter
  • Matrix-style octopus (oh mah gaaawd impossible to make!)
  • Something speech controlled something something
Either I invest my time in that, or my money in this. Which is it going to be? And why?

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Gothenburg, Sweden