My Game Site and an interesting adventure in the Marketplace

 

                              

                      ( 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.