Daily Archive for August 15th, 2006

Workin’ Like Mad

You know, it’s always interesting to me when I’m out up at the local coffee house working and someone says “Hey man, chill out a bit…you work for yourself after all.” Therein lies the funny bit about owning your own business: yes, you get to make your own hours…the problem is all of those hours are work hours.I’ve been working from when I get up pretty much to when I crash out at some odd hour for more than a month now – often more than 18 hours a day. That’s some long hours folks, but I’m not on here to whine about it. I love what I do. Sure, I hate programming and I had to code pretty much all of the website you’re looking at now, but in the end I love gaming. I’m a gamer before I’m a game designer or manufacturer and I wanted a site that gives off more of a community feel than the typical gaming company. I wanted the forum to integrate with the site and I wanted all of you to be able to comment here on the rants without having to make a new account and whatnot. These are pretty small things, but they’re important to me because I care what you guys think about the game. I’ve always been of the opinion that once (as a designer) you release a game it’s no longer yours – it belongs to everyone who plays it. I hope once the book gets out that I’ll see more folks on here working with me on the Wiki site (I’ll be putting more into it soon) and whatnot. I hope that most of the site integrations work as well (drop a line if you find a problem) and I hope to see a lot of you on the tour in the next few months. Keep checking here for the tour dates and diary.

- Ashe