Work Project
If you've read my blog before, you would be aware that I do work a 9 to 5 software developer job every week. Just about a month ago I was pulled along with a handful of other software guys (3 other developers and 2 QA) at my work to create a new UI framework from scratch to be the basis of our team's UI development in the years to come.
It's been a very thrilling but challenging experience allowing me to work with the latest and greatest tech in the domain (.NET Core), while also forming new relationships with peers that I've never known. But beside all that it has been a complete blackhole on my energy to write software. With the extra long days, stressful deadlines, and a software conference thrown in the middle I'm surprised I'm standing after the pace of the last month.
To say the least I'm feeling a bit disheartened how deeply I've been side-tracked on my personal quest to become a game developer. Besides some time working on tooling, and a bit of noodling in the last FPS project, I haven't had the capacity to grow as a game developer for the time of this project. I also feel like I've lost whatever creative relationship I had with my past project, and I'm probably doomed from ever finishing it now.
On a more positive note, things are wrapping up with this project, and I hope to start rebuilding that energy for game development. In fact I would have started toying around with a new project idea tonight if I wasn't having so much trouble trying to compile a specific Python version for the newest Ubuntu. Right now I'd just like to have a computer with a proper working environment by the end of the week and a nice chunk of time this weekend to start building a game, I'd be so happy...
I apologize if this blog is too personal or not interesting enough for your taste in blog posts. I just felt like I needed to record something to help myself close that experience, and start on the next one. Thanks for tuning into this week's drama, hope to catch you next time!
I think it's very easy to lose interest in or connection with a project regardless of whether or not it's being worked on. Just give yourself a few minutes with your project and you'll rediscover why you were doing it in the first place.