My Day Job and Some Context.

In a previous post, I talked about my day job as a coder working on low level systems and technology. I feel I should provide a brief update on this, as it may give some context to my current desire to make my new indie game.

About 8 months ago my role changed here, when I joined a new team as their technology and development lead. I feel it was a great move, both personally and for my career, and so far it's working out quite well. I love challenges and the opportunity to take on the technology responsibilities for an entire property, afforded me many. In fact, I've been more challenged over the past 8 months than ever before in my career. Granted, it's a different kind of challenge to programming, but it still has a lot to do with applying common sense and problem solving, which I love, and do well.

So here's the conflict (yes, there's always some with me). I've been a programmer for almost 28 years now, and it's so deeply part of me, that I honestly struggled with giving it up. Actually, I mulled on it for ages before deciding to jump in with both feet. So now I am a manager. I solve problems and thing strategically. I honestly love it, but ..

I've managed to put my programmer self away in a box for the past few months, and I can no longer ignore the sad, muffled whimpering sounds coming from it. A week or so ago, I took the box down from it's high, lonely shelf, and took a peek inside, and that was it. This is why I'm writing a new game.

I think only a programmer would understand this :) Or maybe not. Maybe I'm just a bit mad!