WHAT ARE YOUR LONG-TERM PLANS AS A GAME DEVELOPER?

Just keep myself busy so I don't drink. Just kidding. I feel like I always have to be working. I think I do this to work at something.

I spent the last 17 years of my life trying to break into the animation industry in a meaningful way. I got to work for 3 years as a visual effects artist and character designer on a number of series and it taught me that despite wanting to work in animation my whole life, it wasn't the career I actually wanted (Netflix wasn't an overly fun experience).

I still had all these short stories and films I had written but what do I do with them if I don't want to animate them? Making them into small games seemed like a fun and challenging option. So here I am. Reworking old ideas into interactive experiences.

I don't know that I will ever make money off my games. I know my larger games such as my current project I would like to release on Steam but I also have a lot of very short game ideas I want to release for free too. Long term I just want to continue to experiment and grow as a developer and more importantly to me, as a story teller. Having my stories become interactive has turned my audience from something passive to something participatory and that to me is much more powerful. I want to see what I can really do with that power.

Diabolical! XD

-release game
-watch it flop
-??????
-kill self