Hi, folks,

First of all if you are reading this, then I'm terribly sorry for your time loss.
Seriously.

I want to outline why I'm programming games and why I'm starting this blog (as I never maintained one).

During the past 5 years, I've created several games, mostly uninspired arcade clones.
While probably the people who played these games, could be counted on my fingers and toes, I had fun building and learning from these games.
I learned programming, because of them.

In my time, I discovered that two questions consistently come up regarding creating games - "how" to create what I wanted to create and "why"
I wanted to create it.

The "how" was - and still is - easier to answer, because I had to answer it just once and it stayed answered.
The "why" I had to answer many times, and yet it stayed unanswered.

Weird.

I believe that the answers to "why" change with time (just as the answers to "how" change, thanks to gaining knowledge).
What could be a reason for creating a game before, may become invalid. And new reasons may come up, too (money, being the most frequent,though).

When I was younger and created my Breakout clone (my first game), I was amazed by how I could write some text in a file and suddenly my paddle started to reflect the ball. Or I could move the paddle with my mouse.Or the ball destroyed a brick and reflected back.



Programming was for me the ultimate sandbox - one without limits.
And that's what kept me working on games all these years.
Because I like to play in the sand.



As I said, however, reasons change and arise, and one of the newish reasons I am undoubtfully ashamed to confess is desire of acknowledgment.
Or pride perhaps.

And this leads me to the reason why I started this blog.
I thought that by doing so, I will get some people to play the game I'm currently developing (if I get it to a "playable" state).

More on that will come in another entry.
I'm currently on vacation, so I will have plenty of time to write about it.