{"id":123,"date":"2010-08-31T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crazygaze.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2010-08-31T22:08:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T22:08:02","slug":"going-freelance-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazygaze.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/going-freelance-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Going freelance again"},"content":{"rendered":"
After all that’s been happening at Realtime Worlds<\/a>, I’ve decided to give another stab at going freelance for a while.<\/div>\n
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I’ve been pondering it for a while, but faced with the recent events (APB’s lackluster sales, Realtime Worlds going into administration), I’ve pretty much decided that’s the way to go, at least for a while.<\/div>\n
Main reason is that I’m pretty much done with APB. I do love the game, and at this moment I have >200hours, but on a job perspective it doesn’t offer me the satisfaction it used to, like when I was designing and implementing the Music Studio sound system, or designing and implementing the sound prioritization we have on top of Wwise.<\/div>\n
Also, I want to gain more experience in other areas (other than Audio).<\/div>\n
With the hiring spree that happened here in Dundee after the news about Realtime Worlds, I did had to turn down a few interviews with some interesting Studios, but I feel it was the right thing to do.<\/div>\n
I want to step back a little and decide where to go from here, instead of rushing to another job.<\/div>\n
Like for example, I did enjoyed working on my lastest hobby project Weston Westie<\/a>, developed with my friend and CEO at BitRabbit<\/a>, for the brand new Samsung Wave, which is the first device with the Bada OS.<\/div>\n
I did all the coding myself, except for the thin framework BitRabbit provided ( RabbitFactory<\/a> ) which abstracts all the platform details, and was a nice way to play around with things I normally don’t, like OpenGL ES, basic AI, UI, Gameplay, etc.<\/div>\n
Although Weston Westie was launched in July, we’ve done basically no marketing, as we want to polish it for the first update (improve textures, put some eye candy, experiment with a different control method).<\/div>\n
At this moment, I have some work lined up with Jenkins Software, whom I’ve worked with in the past.<\/div>\n
I get to work from home (like I did before), which is nice bonus. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
The job itself is to revise,update and improve RakNet’s documentation.<\/div>\n
This particular contract doesn’t actually involve much coding, and some programmers at heart might find it dead boring, but personally I see it as great opportunity to get paid to learn something valuable.<\/div>\n
Positive things I see coming out of this:<\/div>\n
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  • With the high demand for multiplayer games, knowing RakNet library inside out will surely stand out on my CV. I can always say… “After all I wrote the documentation. ;)”<\/li>\n
  • I get to practice actual writting, since English is not my native language. I think it’s ok, but there’s always room for improvement.<\/li>\n
  • Working from home does have some benefits. I can work any time I want, as long as the job gets done. That helps when I need to so something within typical business hours.<\/li>\n
  • With the knowledge I’ll get from RakNet, I can write some Raknet code samples, and post them here, generating traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    On top of all this, since I’ve decided to go freelance, some funny synchronicities happened recently.<\/p>\n

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    • Bitrabbit might have some more freelance coming up my way<\/li>\n
    • Today went to a workshop for videogames startups, and some interesting things happened:\n
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      • Lots of good tips on running a business, PR, Marketing, etc<\/li>\n
      • Some old friend from Realtime Worls is planning a startup, and since we’re both planning on staying in Dundee, some work might come my way.<\/li>\n
      • One other friend was there, and reminded me to join him and a few other developers for an apparently weekly Wednesday talk (in a local pub), which I knew about, but never actually attended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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