2006!

Firstly happy new year everyone!

Secondly, a similar thread to this was posted on IndieGamer and it's good to keep you focused. Bascially list your achievements and failures in 2005 and your goals for 2006. Make sure IT stuff is in there so this thread doesn't go to the great recycle bin in the sky!

Achievements:

- Releasing my first commercial game, Xmas Bonus, which is now in the Reflexive top 50.
- Making 4 mini-games in Blitz Plus
- Increasing my contract programming rate by 20%
- Training up two Aikido students who then passed their black belt gradings.
- Not going mad with 2 boys aged 4 and 2!

Mistakes:

- Not being able to spend enough time really polishing Xmas Bonus before the release date.
- Making Xmas Bonus in BlitzPlus not BlitzMax
- Spending too much time making games and not enough doing contract programming thus losing income.
- Spending too much time on the PC and getting it in the neck from my partner!
- Getting addicted to programming forums, although this is a double-edged sword based on the knowledge gained.

Aims for 2006:

- Bolster my bank account with some contract programming, this will also keep the missus happy.
- Release Easter Bonus and some other variations on a theme I have up my sleeve. Plan to get this on more portals.
- Start using BlitzMax for new games!
- Team up with an artist (any offers?).
- Have enough free time to spend with my partner and kids and also to play a few games myself!
- To go for 2nd Dan in Aikido.

Long Term Goal:

- To derive income from making games either on my own or as part of a good team (I would prefer this) so I can stop contract programming, and to move to a cheaper hotter country!

P.S. What are you drinking tonite (or are you T-Total?). I'm on vodka and coke, ah.

archievements
- the MSX game Universe Unknown, http://www.robsy.net/status05.htm .. made all the tools (tile-editor, map-editor, sprite-editor, various minitools) in B+
- bought bmax+gui
- made a tv-series of 12 episodes, @ primetime
- made the music for a children-theatreshow
- bought a mixing console of 2meter wide

mistakes
- that mapeditor became a great mess, codewise, in the end :)
- bought a mixing console of 2meter wide .. can't turn my ass in this room now..
- still no new tracker :(
- lost 1x 72euro on cash-payment for bmax :/

aims:
- new tracker
- To go for 2nd Dan in bmaxgui
- finally create a game.. 2d/oldskool Zelda'ish RPG orso..
- pick-up a new uni-study, marketing-management orso ..

"2meter wide" cool, now you can look like spock in charge of the science console! lol @ 2meter mistake! haha I remember your cash post about BMax, bummerdude, shoulda paypaled or CCard!
"To go for 2nd Dan in bmaxgui" you cheeky coder, I'm gonna code your ass!

come on everyone else, it's 2am, get posting!

Achievements:
- Um... posting kittens?

Mistakes:
- Um... posting kittens?

Aims:
- Um... your mom?

I don't have any plans and I don't remember anything that happened.

Noel, Noel, Noel ... wait, is that a Christmas carol? ... My mom, noooo, but your mum, well she must be what mid 30s, OK lets talk ...

My mom is 48.

ok, you can take her back now ... crud I lowered the tone of my own thread, no wait, Noel did!

lol, and the thread started so well.

I think there's actually a force out there that causes threads to go downhill. It doesn't effect me though because "I" am the force that causes my threads to go downhill.

Perhaps you should email a mod to remove all the unecessary posts in this thread, including mine.

:)

Achievements:

- bought bmax

Mistakes:

- not dedicating myself to creating a game

Aims for 2006:

- finally finish a decent game

Achievements:
- Still at the top of my class.

Aims for 2006:
- Graduate.

Achievements: - not a lot..create..destroy..create..destroy..

Aims: - make some cash from my art + programming skills.
updating my hardware, winding it up is getting boring.

Mistakes:- more than one. Starting on an elite style space
game was probably my super mistake of the last
year or so.

happy new year + GoOdLUck!

Happy new year everyone - it's 1:05 here. Just got back from a huge downtown celebration.

Oh...and the lightshow was controlled by computers. Is it on topic now?

ah, thread restored, thanks god. I once saw a live TV show of Jean Michel Jarre doing a massive laser light show in Manhatten (I think), it was pretty cool.

I've only been to bed for 3 hours, the kids are up now, sigh. Aim for 2006: go back to bed at some point today!

bump. Common, post your thoughts, this is a great way to focus on your goals for next year!

Achievements:

- One app published with Idigicon
- Releasing two games using BlitzMax
- Buying a Mac (just!)
- My one self-published game is still selling 15 months later
- Pushing myself at work and getting 'noticed'

Mistakes:

- Not spending enough time programming
- Not spending enough time getting a small web design business started

Goals for 2006:

- Spending more time programming and web design
- Releasing another two shareware games before summer using BlitzMax
- Making a good start with my next BIG release (due 2007!)
- Getting the web design business started
- Getting promoted or receiving a rather nice pay rise

What went right:

- Moved in with my girlfriend and her three cats


What went wrong:

- Too many projects went down the drain.
- The three cats. But only when they tip over the plants and pee outside the litterbox.


Aims for 2006:

- World domination
- Finish a game
- Finish another game
- Get incredibly rich.

Some people take this as an aim "Get incredibly rich" and work out a plan backwards from there to where they are now and then go out and do it! true.

Do they get incredibly rich? :)

well, uh, I believe some do! It's a well known business sales/marketing stategy. Start with the target you want to reach and work backwards using logical steps to find out what you have to do to get there

for 2006 i resolve to be a better person than i was in 2005...

... oh yeah, and get incredibly rich :)

--Mike

Red: the two don't have to be mutually exclusive in fact being a better person may help your business in a lot of ways although to be fair many big business have got where there are by being better at being "not nice".