I originally got into programming because of horse racing at the age 12. I fell desperately passionately in love with it and have been programming ever since. I worked full time as a Controls Engineer/Programmer before quitting to pursue creating video games, apps, and websites full time. I blog about my experiences as a programmer and GameDev at www.gildedoctopusstudios.com. I've made a mix of horror and RPG games. Currently I am working on Bramblewood a cheerful sim/RPG game about working for a sorceress. My games are on Itch.io and VoxPop. I also work fulltime as a Senior Unreal Developer for another studio.
“Oh so do you have any other stay at home mom friends?” I’ve been asked variations on this from a variety of friends and family members since quitting my full time job. True I’m still working on getting my work from home work to make money. My first couple of projects are still in the works. I don…
Note this is not my child in the image but it serves to illustrate a valid peril of working from home. If you have children they are adorable and I’m sure wanting to spend more time with them is a big part of why you want to work from home however children can have terrible timing. They upchuck al…
I’ve made some pretty decent progress on Yuki-Onna though it is still a long way from being play testable. Unity is interesting in the way it displays the UI elements while you’re working on scenes. They hoover there over your work like some sort of alien space ships. I’ve been trying to come up w…
I’m very introverted so it took me quite awhile to hit the cabin fever blues, 10-11 weeks roughly. If you’re extroverted working from home may not be for you. I have a friend who works in IT who is pretty extroverted. (Funny story he thought for a long time that he was an introvert but every time…
