Make It Big In Games Call For Help
by Jeff Tunnell · 05/29/2008 (10:41 am) · 2 comments
Hey everybody! Since my big announcement last week that I am leaving GarageGames, I have been updating and modernizing my www.makeitbigingames.com blog. If you have never been over there, please take a look. I have a bunch of articles about making it in the Indie games business.
Anyway, here is my call for help. I have just installed a new off-blog comment system called Disqus, and I need to make sure it works. Turns out my comment system for MBG has been broken for about six months, and I didn't have the time or expertise to fix it (turns out is was something to do with permalinks, but I'm not a web developer... I just plug and pray). Also, even with spam filters turned on, comment spam is a HUGE issue when running your own blog, so I am trying to see if this system will help that as well. Pease post here or send me feedback on the comment system or anything else you can see on my blog that seems messed up. My personal email is jeff.tunnell at gmail (you know the rest).
I am also going to dig back into my game development wiki makeitbigingames.pbwiki.com/, and I would appreciate any help I can get from people in filling out the skeleton that I put up a couple of years ago. I promise this time I will be filling all of that information in over the next couple of months.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
-Jeff Tunnell
Anyway, here is my call for help. I have just installed a new off-blog comment system called Disqus, and I need to make sure it works. Turns out my comment system for MBG has been broken for about six months, and I didn't have the time or expertise to fix it (turns out is was something to do with permalinks, but I'm not a web developer... I just plug and pray). Also, even with spam filters turned on, comment spam is a HUGE issue when running your own blog, so I am trying to see if this system will help that as well. Pease post here or send me feedback on the comment system or anything else you can see on my blog that seems messed up. My personal email is jeff.tunnell at gmail (you know the rest).I am also going to dig back into my game development wiki makeitbigingames.pbwiki.com/, and I would appreciate any help I can get from people in filling out the skeleton that I put up a couple of years ago. I promise this time I will be filling all of that information in over the next couple of months.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
-Jeff Tunnell
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Before i get into stuff about this blog, let me just say one thing in regards to your last blog since i kinda missed it too: Thank your for GG, Thank you for Torque. it has made a huge impact on my life.
Now on to this,
i will gladly help out. And also if you need help with the backend code of your site, let me know, as i have been doing web development for over 10 years now, and hopefully some of my knowledge can help. just email me if you need some casual help here and there (i have my own retail store to run and a house to build a deposit for so casual time is all i can really offer right now, other wise i would offer my full blown help with your site.) Email addy is in my profile.
Cheers Jeff, i know from what you have done here at GG that you will succeed in whatever you do.
05/29/2008 (8:08 pm)
Hey Jeff,Before i get into stuff about this blog, let me just say one thing in regards to your last blog since i kinda missed it too: Thank your for GG, Thank you for Torque. it has made a huge impact on my life.
Now on to this,
i will gladly help out. And also if you need help with the backend code of your site, let me know, as i have been doing web development for over 10 years now, and hopefully some of my knowledge can help. just email me if you need some casual help here and there (i have my own retail store to run and a house to build a deposit for so casual time is all i can really offer right now, other wise i would offer my full blown help with your site.) Email addy is in my profile.
Cheers Jeff, i know from what you have done here at GG that you will succeed in whatever you do.
Torque Owner Anton Bursch
I missed your last blog about leaving Garage Games. Here's a late comment about that.
I don't know if you remember this, but, a couple years back I wrote a late night blog about my dream to be what I termed a game Director. I know a lot of folks thought I was out of my mind thinking I could just decide that I wanted to do what really was the role of a senior producer. I felt kinda stupid the next day realising what I had written. But, a couple years later, thanks to you and GarageGames and Torque that is what I do for a living. I'm a senior producer.
Not of EA or some giant studio, but my role at a small studio has gone from contract programmer to full time programmer to full time producer and game designer. The skills that I gained to work as a producer and designer came directly from learning game production and design as an indie right here in the GG community from people like you and Jay and Joe. I'm living a dream right now and it would not have been possible without you. I try to find people from this community to hire for work when I can to give back in some way.
Thanks for changing my life.
Anton Bursch