( one of the first sketches for my first game, Battle of the CookBees )
I have good news. I spoke with my wife and she agreed that I renew my
website hosting account, so my games stay there, at least for one more year. I
think much more.
The games didn’t earn me money as I expected – ain’t it a crime – but the
adventure is being far from vain.
I work in an engineering firm, but I am not an engineer. There are always decisions in projects that I have no knowledge to make. Unlike when I began working for the first time in 1999, and through the beginning of the century, when it paid for being simply a very fast 3D drawing guy and knowing Revit, creating families and all, nowadays everybody who wants to work with projects is expected to be an engineer or architect.
Well, ok. I believe I can learn more than people think, if there is goodwill,
but I learned that you can't expect too much goodwill from people.
Ok, again.
So, my way to stay alive in this market for at least a little more was
to learn how to make custom plugins for Revit, since I know Cad, BIM
and code, and I am good with geometry.
It took me months to master Revit plugin, and I was making some good
ones, then they sent me to make plugins for ArchiCad. A different software, a different
programming language, so I had to almost start from zero, and it is a barely
explored territory, but something is coming out of it.
It is valuable knowledge - ask on the internet- and, well, it is what I have to offer.
There is always more going on anywhere than a simple linear story, but
in pure professional terms, this is it.
I don't know how much it represents of the reasons why I have a decent
degree of tranquility tonight, I am sure it's much less than half, but is still
very important to me.
And this was possible because I wanted to make games.
Earlier, I had some very rudimentary notion of programming because I had
worked with 3dMax’s maxscript in the past, but in 2020 was the first time I sat
to really learn programming in the internet, and later through a “create your
game in Java” book. I learned so much in these five years, all because of that initial
dream.
All because, in 2019, playing with my son that was 3 years old, and
having problems with money, I started thinking I could have ideas for games and
put them on the Internet. I like games, after all, and it seemed like a good
idea.
I remember clearly when we took him to the hospital – nothing serious at
all – and I was in the reception room waiting for them, and I took a coffee and
started thinking about what kind of game I could create.
I looked at the starry night and dreamed. Boards with squares, colors, a
little bit of humor, all from an inspiration I had from a child.
And it was maybe naïve – but I still believe is fruitful.
