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I was 21 years old
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Couple years into a printing degree at Clemson University
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I was watching the indie game documentary
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I got moment
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I knew I wanted to be just like Edmund McMillen
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And Jonathan Blow
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I wanted to make
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Independent games for living
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Everything about college the real world
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And a desk job
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Suddenly felt like a nightmare
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And I was going to do everything I possibly could to avoid that work
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Inmate games
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Full-time
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My name is Thomas brush and video games have fascinated me ever since I was a kid
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I want to tell you about how Indie Games changed
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Everything for me
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I'm sure my story
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It's actually very similar to yours I know we all probably experienced that
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Brush when opening up our first console
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On Christmas Day
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That sense of wonder as suddenly
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Banjo flips onto his back carry by Kazooie
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Or that sense of camaraderie
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Brotherhood
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When playing GoldenEye
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On a tiny TV left over from the early 90s in for little squares
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Growing up the video game world for me and my brothers
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Was a place to bond together
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Who really got old
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The four of us sprinting up our rickety wooden staircase burst into the playroom
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Flip over onto the couch
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Blow into the cartridge
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And start shooting each other
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No matter what was happening in the real world
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We can always rely on the fact
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Hang out with each other after school
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In another dimension
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I'll be honest though I never really played video games with my brothers
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I spent most of the time just watching
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Mesmerized
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All of it
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I wanted to figure it out
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How did rareware
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Nintendo and neversoft do it
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Thankfully my brother was given a piece of software coreldraw for his birthday
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This is basically the 90s version of Photoshop
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Camera that clunky animation add-on called Corral move
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So why my brother sat watching movies playing in 64 and eventually Xbox
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What actually sit across the room and windows Millennium Edition in Corel move trying to recreate Dragon Ball Z
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Honestly all I can remember from those days with
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The Twin Towers harry-potter-and-the-sorcerer's-stone
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Making
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Really crappy animations showing them to my family and thinking it was the next Walt Disney
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Life was good
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I felt like I could see my future
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I'm going to be a filmmaker
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Maybe even make video game
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My confidence in my career path solidified in high school
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As I moved on from Corral move
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I heard about the shiny new tool called flash MX
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About a copy from a website called
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Cheap software.com with my dad's credit card
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To his dismay it was more like a copy of a copy a flash MX from China
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Got it running and began to create some bizarre and sometimes cringe-worthy animations
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Looking back it's no wonder it wasn't until graduation
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I was able to find a girlfriend
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Actually ended up being my wife
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I guess you found something special in this scrawny Newgrounds obsessed teenager
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I got lucky because
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I was eventually able to prove my skill to her when I released a small game called coma online
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You received over 7 million plays with help of websites like newgrounds.com
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It made me about $20,000
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Publishing contract
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As you can imagine my head got a little big
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I felt like I had made it
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Set it at go to college and see what they knew and then jump right back into game development
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College was where the real world
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Started to set in
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The money from coma and a few other flash games I made
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Begin to dry up
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Navigate to realize making indie games for a living
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It was hard
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I stuck with it though and spent most my time either studying in my dorm
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Watching prison break with my fiance
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Or working on my next game on my little MacBook
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In the basement the library
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Depressing looking back
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I wish I'd made more friends mini gone too few parties
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Had that college experience
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But I couldn't let go of that dream
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There's always ticking clock in my head
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Time was running out to really solidify my career
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As a game developer
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Black clock eventually hit midnight
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The time was up
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I love my fiance more than my career
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And we got married right after graduation
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She was still in school and I knew I needed to provide for the family so I took a job as a graphic designer to business-to-business
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Is this marketing firm
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Making around $38,000 a year
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Was pretty good money Wellington to what I was used to
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My wife and I had a tiny little house a couple acres of land we started Living in this real world
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But it didn't take much time for me to start feeling anxious
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Pressed
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About a week I came home from work crying trying to explain to my wife that feeling of being
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Trapped in a cubicle sorts
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Making email blast for refrigeration company
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Had a weird looking back because
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I was really lucky to have a job at a really great company that treated me well
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I was lucky to be making money and luck if he married
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But something in me was screaming
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Tell stories
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True video games in my own way
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In my own time
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That dream from childhood that self-assurance
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Roaring back
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That's when I decided I was going to wake up at 6 a.m.
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Every morning before work
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And make games
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I'm going to work on them through my lunch break
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And even work on them an hour or two in the evenings
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Wasn't easy easier than feeling trapped
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After three years of mustering of Creative Energy in the midst of being a full-time student and then a full-time employee
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I also traveled across the country to small indie game competitions
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And I was even lucky enough to have Unity
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Thomas small documentary about my story after that I was ready to release my next game
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Pinstripe
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A game about a minister in Hell well I thought I was ready
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Of course it wasn't that easy
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The game was riddled with bugs
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Received terrible reviews when I would submit it
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Festivals
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Like igf reindeer
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I really was devastated but
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Kept at it
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Wasn't without a ton of quotes about failure printed all over my office wall
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That I mustered enough bravery
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Pelagic Kickstarter campaign
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I knew I needed
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Quit my job
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To be able to fully focus on making pinstripe
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With the help of my sister-in-law and her camera
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Some footage from unity's documentary
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And I wife holding my laptop
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The teleprompter
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I recorded the kickstarter video in my parents back
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Wasn't perfect
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And I knew that
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Who's even a bit embarrassing
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Asking for people's money
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Is showing them an incomplete project
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Compromising
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Try and make it better
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Then the day came
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Launch day for the
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It was lunchtime
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I snuck down to the basement
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The marketing agency I was working at
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Nervously waiting
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Click the launch button
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Really needed
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Mainly because I knew my family and friends watching
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Click the launch button
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And my job Rock
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Within the first
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Our kid raised over $7,000
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The day I could not believe what I was seeing
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Campaign exceeded its funding goal
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$28,000 in less than 24 hours
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This was it
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This was the moment I had worked through High School
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College
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In three years at a desk job for
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That moment
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When you quit your job
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Become a full-time Game Dev
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It's been a wild ride
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Ever since that day
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I thought that single moment
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What kind of like a glitch
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Did the money with dry up and I've had to go back
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My day job
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But it's really only gotten better since then
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Here's the thing
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Every full-time Game Dev Pat is
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4 summits
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One game launches changes everything
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For others like myself
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The lengthy process of
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Launching Kickstarter campaigns partnering with publishers
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Relying on patreon support and even building a loyal audience with
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Help of some Mega YouTubers
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That's perhaps another story for another time
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So I'm about to turn 30 I'm sitting in my
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Little 80-game Studio
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I couldn't be happier with my current career
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Looking back it really is all a blur
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I always thought I would feel like I was Landing a plane like once you've landed you've landed you've made it you're good to go
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It doesn't work that way
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That's what I want you to know
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Making Indie Games exactly that you're making
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Me I don't ever just make a game and then I'm done
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It's a journey and it's hard
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It's exhausting
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You might cry and
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If you're married or dating you're probably fight your family might be confused
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Some people might think you're crazy
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But none of this is about being understood or having talent or being a genius
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Chili about being diligent
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Humble
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And hardworking and with those traits
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I believe that anyone including you can make games
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Full-time
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