November Surprise

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”.  -Albert Camus

This has been a profound month for me. Hell, its been a pretty crazy year.

For the past five or six months I’ve been working primarily as an indi developer. For a lot of reasons making the jump back to that from studio work was one of the smartest and healthiest things I have done in many years.

They say that “life is what happens while you’re making plans”. Well life is also what happens in spit of your plans.

They also say that “luck is what happens when preparation and opportunity meet”. Well I say that you’re damn lucky if you’re paying enough attention to recognize something real when the opportunity comes along.

I have always been amazed at the chain of events that lead us from one point to the next in our life. Sometimes they are clear, obvious and even predictable. But more often they’re circuitous and dizzying combinations of chance and circumstance, opportunities and unexpected encounters.

I have never believed in the notion of reinventing ones self, as if  such a thing were truly possible. But I do believe in the wisdom of occasionally assessing who we are and what we are doing. What’s the line from the movie? …”all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”.

Well, my roller coaster ride has brought me here, to this time and place. There are a million little things I could have done differently, and anyone of them could have found me in profoundly different circumstances today.

Hindsight is 20/20. But I am finding that this here and now is not such a bad place to be after all.

I still can’t show off any of the projects I have been working on so I thought I would dig up some concept stuff I did back before I left Garage Games.

Here are a couple of character concepts for Fallen Empire: Legions, and some workups for a “300” style RTS project that was never developed.

Almost forgot, the 100 Push up challenge is going great. Next up …the 100 Donut Challenge. That’s right I said Donuts.