Submissions from 2015-12-23 to 2015-12-30 (1 total)

The Kha guide is complete and is here. I broke the streak right at the end, just got forgetful after finishing, but that's OK.

Postmortem thoughts

I churned through a lot of ideas in the past few months along the lines of "making game related tools". This forced me to confront what I meant by that and how I could execute on it in a reasonable amount of time, without any meandering.

What Went Right

  • I started several good projects that I wouldn't have worked on otherwise
  • I finished at least two really worthwhile ones, Pixelbound and the Kha documentation, as well as developing library code for others
  • I developed a broader personal/creative identity - broke out of the "gamedev" or "programmer" pigeonhole into something more rounded
  • Was not stressful on time, it simply reoriented time I was already going to spend

What Went Wrong

  • A weekly deadline made it hard to ship interesting things so a lot of posts were simple blog post updates
  • It didn't turn into a community interaction, really
  • It's the end of the year and I'm still on a job hunt?

Conclusions

This was a really good use of Streak Club, and I should come up with another streak for next year, with a different goal for stretching myself. Even if I only present blog posts, it helps with habit-forming.