Citizens of Tomorrow
“This is not how we planned it
But we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves
Computers rule the planet
And the moon and mars as well
We lost the fight”
Drove 240 something miles (round trip) tonight to Orlando to see Tokyo Police Club. Small small club, great show (besides one guy behind me yelling).
With time change it was 4:15am when I got home.
No wonder I have problems sleeping on a normal cycle.
Driving back over to Orlando on Monday to see Modest Mouse.
For probably 6 years now, once or twice a year a friend of mine and I will decide to do “something”.
Programming based something, not shaving all the hair off of our body and going to Burning Man (I only vaguely know what Burning Man is).
We have never finished any of our projects. The last one went one for a year and a half, dragged in two other friends and never reached completion. We were kind of done once but rewrote it in another language (god knows why) and after being close to being done again, the idea that was good the year before we started was popping up all over the place.
So we all eagerly quit.
Shortly afterwords the iPhone app store thing was picking up steam so most of us ran out and book a Mac of some sort.
One friend actually got an app out 2 or so months later, another friend did nothing, and I tried for a week or two but honestly just didn’t care for Xcode and Objective C so I moved on.
I had a job at the time so the money for the laptop was not a huge deal.
Fast foward several months, I have no real job, no real income.
So the two of us start up yet again.
Tomorrow will be three weeks from when we started and we are done with a game for the iPhone.
Read something today saying there is like 7 or 8 THOUSAND games on the app store.
Lot of the are well crap.
We have put a fair bit of effort into the game to make sure it looks clean and relatively professional (hopefully).
It’s Master of Cards: Magic Squares!
Check the website to read all about it and see screen shots. I would type more here but I had to write all stuff for it and I am tired.
Should be done tomorrow and submit to app store Monday.
Hopefully that will go fine.
I guess everyone who puts an app hopes to make millions.
I would be happy to sell one copy.
After that I would like to pay recoup the money invested in the laptop.
After THAT I would like to make enough to beat what unemployment pays.
Anyway we start on the next game next week. Idea with the name is to build a “series”.