2006 year in preview
by Jason Swearingen · 03/14/2006 (1:06 am) · 5 comments
I've been getting emails from people currious about my plans in Thailand, so I'll share with you a copy-paste of my reply to one such email:
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The very first thing I'm going to be doing is learning the language. I plan on spending 6 months going to school full-time.
Part time, I am going to be working on an educational non-profit I setup (www.cwite.org) which while funded with 24k of seed money, is still in it's infancy and will need a lot of attention.
Additionally, I'm going to start hiring developers for my "for-profit" business (TaoCorp) which I plan to have going full-speed around December. The primary focus of TaoCorp will be around the .NET wrapper I wrote for Torque*. I was initially thinking to focus on selling the wrapper to developers, but due to some recent developments, I am considering saying "screw the developers" and just focus on developing an in-house game. (I want to eventually supply indie devs, but nothing gets an engine better attention than a good game written with it)
So that, in a nutshell are my plans.. I plan on hiring only 2 or 3 developers initially, so the scope of what I do will be small, but as the saying goes: "learn to walk before you run"
-Jason
* TGB, though should be trivial to port to TGE/TSE
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The very first thing I'm going to be doing is learning the language. I plan on spending 6 months going to school full-time.
Part time, I am going to be working on an educational non-profit I setup (www.cwite.org) which while funded with 24k of seed money, is still in it's infancy and will need a lot of attention.
Additionally, I'm going to start hiring developers for my "for-profit" business (TaoCorp) which I plan to have going full-speed around December. The primary focus of TaoCorp will be around the .NET wrapper I wrote for Torque*. I was initially thinking to focus on selling the wrapper to developers, but due to some recent developments, I am considering saying "screw the developers" and just focus on developing an in-house game. (I want to eventually supply indie devs, but nothing gets an engine better attention than a good game written with it)
So that, in a nutshell are my plans.. I plan on hiring only 2 or 3 developers initially, so the scope of what I do will be small, but as the saying goes: "learn to walk before you run"
-Jason
* TGB, though should be trivial to port to TGE/TSE
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#2
Wow, I came across your blog at a good time.
I've been pondering going to Thailand to teach engineering sometime in the future. (But thats still far down the road.)
Please keep us posted on your progress.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with that figure for seed money? Any research behind how much you would need?
Anyway, I'll be in Thailand for two weeks in April.
Best of luck to you and to CWITE.
Colin
03/14/2006 (5:19 am)
Sa wat dee krap!!!Wow, I came across your blog at a good time.
I've been pondering going to Thailand to teach engineering sometime in the future. (But thats still far down the road.)
Please keep us posted on your progress.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with that figure for seed money? Any research behind how much you would need?
Anyway, I'll be in Thailand for two weeks in April.
Best of luck to you and to CWITE.
Colin
#3
Though from the budget forecast we've done, if we cant get the ball rolling with 24k then there is something very wrong :) Research wise, a lot went into it.. aprox 100hrs over the span of a few months.
And yeah, it should be exciting in Thailand.. I'm going to fly over there to get married end of April, and will be moving "for good" end of June.. So Colin, next time you are in Thailand (after april) ping me okay, and we can chat about stuff, or at least have drinks :)
03/14/2006 (11:16 pm)
The seed money is 24k mostly out of nessesity than anything else (that's what we got as a grant)Though from the budget forecast we've done, if we cant get the ball rolling with 24k then there is something very wrong :) Research wise, a lot went into it.. aprox 100hrs over the span of a few months.
And yeah, it should be exciting in Thailand.. I'm going to fly over there to get married end of April, and will be moving "for good" end of June.. So Colin, next time you are in Thailand (after april) ping me okay, and we can chat about stuff, or at least have drinks :)
#5
It is always good to hear that a great Game-house is going to start making great games here.
i hope to see your games soon.
@Jason : TaoCorp Huhh..... Tao must be a name of some one really beatiful huhh???
@Colin : it is " Sawadee Krub" ;)... and if you ever come Chiang Mai just let me know i will be glad to show u around :)
03/24/2006 (4:16 am)
Good Luck Jason It is always good to hear that a great Game-house is going to start making great games here.
i hope to see your games soon.
@Jason : TaoCorp Huhh..... Tao must be a name of some one really beatiful huhh???
@Colin : it is " Sawadee Krub" ;)... and if you ever come Chiang Mai just let me know i will be glad to show u around :)
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