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Geek Culture / Hobby or money

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BaZko
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Do you code and sell your games for money,or code for hobby?

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hexGEAR
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Posted: 9th Jan 2005 07:41
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hobby, hope for money someday

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soapyfish
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Money would be nice but one of the great things about the indie/indy (don't know if this should be indie or indy) community is that people make games because they want to, not because they have to.

Formely code2kill
Is it really that hard to check your spelling before clicking the Post Message button?
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Cian Rice
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I do hope to make a shareware game or 2 but the majority of games I hope to release would be freeware.

Have a heart and join my message board.And now my messageboards work again!Woot!
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Neofish
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Posted: 9th Jan 2005 08:21
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Hobby, and if I get good enough at it a carear (if I ever learn how to spell that )

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ionstream
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Money, and then hopefully one day, more money.

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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its indi

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The admiral
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Well im hopefully entering the commercial world.

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BearCDPOLD
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For learning now, small money later (early college money please so I can get dinner in the form of a $0.99 big mac). Going to get a CS degree along with Music. I would prefer Music/Sound job in games/movies, but I hear programming games is in more demand than sound/music in games, and if you apply for a non-game prorgamming job it's even easier (to find a job).

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The Real 87
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Posted: 10th Jan 2005 01:35 Edited at: 10th Jan 2005 01:35
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I started just for hobby, but my latest progect may go commercial if it comes out how I plan it to.

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87 Productions is the shizz.
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Hangman Studios
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I started programming because I had a lot of ideas that I thought would make really neat games, and the best ones I'm saving for when I (hopefully) go professional.

"His Chops are too righteous! The helmets can't handle this intensity of Rock and Roll!"-Plankton
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DarkSin
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Posted: 10th Jan 2005 02:24
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Hobby mostly, though I might use it a fair amount in my job career. Don't know, will have to see.


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Major Payn
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Posted: 10th Jan 2005 03:08
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I do it for hobby, for now that is, but I hope to get into the games industry some day, it is my goal in life I guesse you could say. Right now, my quality of work is not to good, so I don't sell it, If I did, I might get 1 download that I would come to find out was my mom or something,

Guns arn't the problem, people are the problem, shoot all the people and guns arn't a problem anymore.
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MikeS
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Hobby, then eventually a career in the game industry to make money.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
(Formerly known as Yellow)
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Coding Fodder
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Posted: 10th Jan 2005 05:15
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I program as a hobby, but hopefully one day I will actually make games as a hobby. I have about 100 projects started and 0 finished. definitly just for fun. But if I dream a bit some day microsoft will buy a couple hundred lines of promising, uncommented spagetti code for One Millions of Dollars!!
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Shadow Robert
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Some of the moderators come round my house after I don't code for a while stuff a pillow case over my head, drive me into a field miles away and throw a laptop at me with a few batteries... they refuse to take me back home until I've done thier code for them

so i pick c) Slave Labour


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Neofish
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Raven's been at the whisky again

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MikeS
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Hey, back to work Raven!



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Damokles
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I'm coding for another reason : To take over the world ... Muahahahahaha


Well not really, it's more a hobby, I will never expect to get some money from it, and honestly I would not want it. Why would I care to have 5$ from a guy who played my game ?
I would think he's stupid, there are some many more professional free games around, even Demos are bigger than the things I create.
I prefer knowing that many people use it and enjoy it, even for free, that's my real goal : knowing that people use it.
(or would you like to make something that nobody wants ?)

- Mind the gap -
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MiR
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Posted: 10th Jan 2005 05:59 Edited at: 10th Jan 2005 06:00
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Hobby.
I don´t plan on working in the industry as my idea of the perfect job doesn´t include 14 hour work days...
Anyway´s I´ve sworn to never sel the games I make as a hobby.
As Ermes puts it. A free game for a free world (Or something like that)


¿Como estas you el dia de today?
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indi
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Posted: 11th Jan 2005 10:25
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I do GameDev as a hobby, but commercially the skills I have learnt doing such things like modelling and coding have helped my profession in multimedia

If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself
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Clueless
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[quote]I do GameDev as a hobby, but commercially the skills I have learnt doing such things like modelling and coding have helped my profession in multimedia[center]

Words of great wisdom, those.

Plus, I try a lot harder when I'm coding something interesting, like a game. The skills I pick up always help out at work, eventually, and translate eventually into more dollars (or euros, etc.) Every edge you can pick up on other programmers is going to help you if you're competing for a nice job, contract, beautiful girl, etc.

Well, maybe not the girl...
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