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Ship it. Whatever it is.

Hello everyone! It's been two weeks since the last time I wrote anything here. And a lot of things happened. Like always. That's what life is about. Things happening without stop. I don't even know where I was going with that so... Anyway, the project I've been working with some friends from the master I took is almost done. It's not pretty, it does not have good music or brilliant particle effects. But we have to leave it. It was a one month project, and that time has passed. So, we have to ship it.  As much as it hurts knowing there was so many improvements we could do. We have to walk away from it. It was an exercise and hopefully a trend for us. We needed more experience and we got it. It also brought to light many things about our personalities, commitment and ability to stay focused and accompany that focus with work. We have many issues to think about but it's been fun. Hopefully we'll continue doing this kinds of things.  For me persona

Too many good intentions

Hi everyone! Today I want to write about how I find myself trying to juggle all my project without losing my mind in the process. Everything started when I wrote a design document for a game. It got shelved and since I wanted to make one more game besides the ones I was already making, I started another project. So there was one time I was making 2 projects inside the company and two more outside. And I think that was good enough. Not comfortable, but manageable.  Until. That project that got shelved, rose from the dead and was handled to me as maybe the most important project I could participate this year. That was the moment I started worrying about my ability to handle the art and design of multiple little and enormous projects at the same time. And the truth is I'm not.  I'm blending things from one project to another. And I feared that was a terrible mistake, but I think maybe it isn't. It's proving to be an interesting experience and a source for creat

When something clicks

Hey everybody. It's been quite some time. And I have a feeling that every time this happens I come here and I write something like "sorry for this, I won't happen again :(( ". And what I've realised is that I need to stop apologising and say the things up front. So here it goes: I don't know how many times per week/month/year I can update my journal anymore.  The amount of work I have is that big. I also moved out of my parent's house recently and I'm still adapting to the new daily routine. Anyway, today I wanted to talk about how something clicked for me and my new flatmates. So, we were playing Smash Bros for the WiiU before unpacking anything else for the flat. And we kept playing for the rest of the afternoon. We played normal smash, omega, smash for 8 and party mode. But for a few matches we decided to switch the rules from "time" to "stocks". Until we played with and against amiibos. And the inevitable happened: the