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<aside>This is mirrored on my blog if that's the sorta thing yer into: www.lumpygames.com/madrantz</aside>



I finally took some serious time away from game dev. I kept paying lip service to the idea once I sold off my interest in 21-6, but I never really backed away and took some time off until September rolled around. I even missed the IndieGamesCon, that's how serious I was about taking a break. ;) I've been away for a while, but I'm feeling the itch again. To that end I'm in the process of updating both my website (later) and my blog (now). It'll be in a state of flux for a bit while I tweak it to look decent using WordPress.

Although I've been taking a break from game dev, that by no means implies that I've been ignoring what's been going on in the game dev community. For instance, I've been reading Phil Steinmeyer's blog, who recently published his first casual game, Bonnie's Bookstore. I find following Phil interesting because he is essentially doing what I had considered doing with LG.

I also have been following the blog Jeff Tunnell of GarageGames just recently started titled Make It Big In Games. While I actually have heard everything he's had to say to-date on the blog (much in person), it will be fun to watch Jeff continue to build his blog as he has much to contribute to wannabe-game-devs.

I'm still trying to determine what I will do game-dev-wise now. I have an idea for a fun little two-player game I'd like to toy with. At this point I'm not really worried about making money with games, and in fact I'm almost of the opinion that I should just do some game dev work with some folks just for the fun of it now rather than try to design and dev my own stuff. We'll see.