My day job

This will come as a shock to a lot of you: I have a day job. And not just any job, I make games for kids! If you don’t believe me, see the Graphogame demo for yourself: http://info.graphogame.com/

I’m the lead developer for games called Ekapeli and Graphogame. It’s really fun and I enjoy the diversity. At the moment we have a team of four programmers including me, and a whole bunch of researchers going about in loops trying to figure out how to teach kids how to read. Some of you may know my darling wife Anne used to be one of those researchers, but that’s another story. :)

I make most of the graphics for the games, though the other programmers help me as much as they can. Usually we use Inkscape, mostly because I wanted to learn it a few years back, and I think it gives a nice childish look.

Most days I end up working on games for over 10 hours, with first my day job and then work on Driftmoon. Sometimes I get them mixed up, at work we’ve begun implementing roleplaying stuff into Ekapeli, and at home I constantly have to fight the urge to use very simple language and easy missions.

So what do you think? Do I have a risk of getting a little schizophrenic with the totally different games I’m working on?

PS. We switched to a faster server. Anybody notice the difference?

5 Responses to “My day job”

  1. DRLDRL says:

    Well ville you actually need some way to finance your personall projects and the webpage, so you need a usefull job. About the games, well just consider it could be worse… you now, today with the entire “realism” stuff, everything is more bloodshed and bloodbath and (well you get the point). These type of games might be for kids, but they are a lot more “healty” than those doom remakes of today… Hope your workplace is nice, too.

    P.S.:As for the server, yeah, thanks :D . I use a USB modem conection (which is sLOW) so I noticed it immediately.

  2. VenoM_31VenoM_31 says:

    Yeah, it’s faster kind of 2 times.
    It freaks me out, but “useful” is written with one “l” :)
    I personally get very bored when commanded to do one and only one task ATM. So I add a few to switch among them if I get bored with the current one. I don’t think mixing two jobs will make you schizophrenic :D

  3. SpoonsSpoons says:

    I agree, i always told my English teacher that English is more flawed than any other language, and she couldn’t argue with it.