MichaelEstes

Between years of getting stuck in a perpetual loop of thinking "if I make money now I can make games later" and 2020 being the worst fucking year ever (as I'm sure it was for a lot of people); I decided just to take a year and spend it doing what I actually wanted to do. So I made the mobile game I wish I had access to in 2020, because ironically enough, I spent a lot of 2020 away from my home pc.

The core loop is still pretty simple: craft, loot, fight. I want to make sure I get that to a point that feels really good before adding more to the colony building aspects.

The game is restricted to certain regions on Google Play so if you're on an Android phone and would like to try it out send me an email with your Google Play email and I can add you to the tester list michael@estes.es

Probably not going to reach my target audience here, but I greatly appreciate any and all feedback from you all!

I've been around a lot of police officers in my life and I can count on one hand the number that have even attempted life savings measures when arriving first to a scene that required them

It’s surprisingly solid, I’ve made a couple weekend projects in it, but I see it being to Unity/Unreal what Blender is to Maya/Zbrush. I still wouldn’t use Godot for anything I hope to make money from, or if your looking to gain skills that will land you a job at a studio. If you’re new to game dev as a whole I’d recommend starting with Unity.

Video hosting is expensive, like really expensive. I started a site (scrim.tv) to try and disrupt YouTube for the reasons that are often expressed in posts like these and I'm pretty convinced at this point that YouTube basically breaks even in terms of profit.

It's strange to me that people are so concerned about these deep fakes when the National Enquirer has been around for so long. It's been easy to lie to people in mass for awhile now. I don't think this changes the number of people that are open to these suggestions, I think people in general are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for.

That's great input/insight, I think I agree with with most of what you're saying. What I really got from this book is that I was not managing my goals correctly. As a programmer when I'm given a problem the first thing I do is break it down into small, easily achievable pieces that then build up into the final solution.

I wasn't doing this with my goals and a byproduct of that was that I wasn't able to measure to progress of my final goals.

It's really more about how you manage your goals, not what they might be, but even with something as broad as happiness I think this is still possible. If you set "being happier" as your final goal, you can start to set daily, monthly, yearly... goals that fold into happiness. Happiness may not be strictly measurably, but if you know that working out 3 times a week makes you happier you can set that as a weekly goal. You then can set monthly and yearly goals around what working out steadily will improve (lifting more weight, running further and faster) and those things will usually be easily measurable.

There's edge cases for sure, as with most things. I will say it works better in a work environment where most progress can be easily measured (Even though it often isn't), but I think a good goal system is something that can be beneficial for any goal you may set.

However I do agree with #3 & #4, if your final goals are not in the right direction any adjustments to the daily, weekly, monthly goals will not improve that and may have a negative overall effect, but I think that resolves to a much larger issue than your goal management system.

Measure what Matters by John Doerr had a similar effect on me to what you're describing with Freakonomics. I don't remember a lot of details from that book, but the way I set and measured goals after reading it changed almost overnight.