Post by Brendan on May 16, 2013 7:41:32 GMT -8
((Preface to this: There are people like Nick Bergeron, my dad, and other experienced programmers who have given me real advice on how to move foward on my dream, and peple who have been really helpful on my quest to achieve my dreams. The below rant is not directed at them.))
To the next mother fucker who decides to say "Good Luck" in that sarcastic, holier than thou voice when I say I'm trying to break in to independent game development, I will punch you square in your god damn patronizing face. I am not fucking kidding.
Do you know how hard it is to follow what you love while still doing what you need to do to stay afloat in this world? I don't need your discouragement, I really don't. From attempting to teach myself not only coding and API logic (The next mother fucking HTML5 book that assumes I know what the fuck DOM means by page 4, I will sacrifice to the dark lords of hell in a bonfire. You know what doesn't exist? A book on the fucking Document Object Model.) but also programming best practices and abstraction, to attempting to assemble a team to build games with, I have enough to fucking worry about without you reminding me of just how many hurdles I have in front of me left to jump.
I am GOING to do this. This is my life's dream. I've wanted to make video games since I was four years old and I first picked up "Mario Brothers" on my Nintendo Entertainment System, and my mom told me that a team of PEOPLE made that piece of magic happen.
Even if it's barely above a minimum wage job, I WILL support myself on this some day.
So to every naysayer out there, to every sarcastic sonuvabitch, to every person who has ever shat on anyone's passion, anyone's dream, I have this to say to you. And I mean it, with every fiber of my heart string.
Go. Fuck. Yourselves.
To the next mother fucker who decides to say "Good Luck" in that sarcastic, holier than thou voice when I say I'm trying to break in to independent game development, I will punch you square in your god damn patronizing face. I am not fucking kidding.
Do you know how hard it is to follow what you love while still doing what you need to do to stay afloat in this world? I don't need your discouragement, I really don't. From attempting to teach myself not only coding and API logic (The next mother fucking HTML5 book that assumes I know what the fuck DOM means by page 4, I will sacrifice to the dark lords of hell in a bonfire. You know what doesn't exist? A book on the fucking Document Object Model.) but also programming best practices and abstraction, to attempting to assemble a team to build games with, I have enough to fucking worry about without you reminding me of just how many hurdles I have in front of me left to jump.
I am GOING to do this. This is my life's dream. I've wanted to make video games since I was four years old and I first picked up "Mario Brothers" on my Nintendo Entertainment System, and my mom told me that a team of PEOPLE made that piece of magic happen.
Even if it's barely above a minimum wage job, I WILL support myself on this some day.
So to every naysayer out there, to every sarcastic sonuvabitch, to every person who has ever shat on anyone's passion, anyone's dream, I have this to say to you. And I mean it, with every fiber of my heart string.
Go. Fuck. Yourselves.
