Thread: Worried about my future

Yes. I am.

you'll be fine satori

just dont stop asking questions

never stop asking questions

Step 1.

Stop being a failure.

yes infact there are a great number of success stories in this field. Including many from Canada and many involving Snickers.

what you need is an upfront financial security package. I happen to specialise in these. What you do is send me the cash you want to invest in a business and I secure it in physical assets according to your interests.

For instance, in your case, I would use your money to buy lots of netbooks, laptops and Snickers bars. This would free your attention to be focused on your indian designing or whatever and I'd have some shiny new laptops until they got all covered in all the Snickers bars I'd be eating.

If you have any suggestions, please send them to me on the back of a cheque.

I assure you I am not Col. Gaddafi as my picture would suggest.

But I will buy a fancy outfit like his with my fee.

i bribe vending machines to keep fucking quiet about the candy i take

Satori, do the prostitution thing. Best case scenario you make enough money to keep surviving, worst case scenario you go to jail where they pay you to make license plates, feed you three times a day, and house you for free.

Originally Posted by Satori_Everything

I don't know about that. Just because I was fine before doesn't mean I always will. I am making less money at my job due to a cut in my hours than before.

oh

Is it possible to make your own games and sell them?

yes

Like have your own indie design company.

yes

Would it be possible to make on netbooks/laptops?

laptop yes, netbook maybe not. I spent some time working with XNA (Google search it) and while I didn't run into any issues on my core 2 (fast)/intel graphics (not fast) laptop, I know people ran into issues with netbooks. XNA is the technology games in the XBLIG (the xbox indie games marketplace) use, and C# is basically required so it is marginally easier than using C++. And the development environment is free (Visual Studio 2010 Express + XNA SDK, both free downloads). Also, if you do it with any amount of forethought, it's not particularly challenging to end up with a game that runs on both xbox and pc, so you get two markets for the price of one (no mac, wii or ps3 though).

If you really want to get in the indie game market, do it while you still have income. Every story I've read about indie game developers has included bits about spending money for ages before any real income is realized, if any income is ever realized.

Originally Posted by Satori_Everything

sponge, thanks. I am not sure if I should buy a laptop. I have a netbook. I have my desktop computer too, it is slower than my netbook, though.
Maybe, I want to buy one, hopefully I can find one that is cheap. I got my netbook for about two hundred dollars on boxing day. I hope I could find a laptop for around the same but don't know if that is possible.

you will probably pay 800-1000 USD (don't know what that is canadian) for the sort of computing power you'll need for much 3d game development

takes money to make money more often than not, unfortunately