This thread was the first thing I happened to read after returning from handing my dissertation interim report in. It's been giving me quite a lot of stress, but now it's been handed in and I can relax for a bit hopefully.
I'm relatively new to the forum, but I just want to say how much motivation Jeff's work has provided me recently. I've always been interested in games, and some of my earliest memories are of playing on my cousins 2600 and my brother's C=64. I got into game development properly when I was about 13, at first I would just make new game maps, but I'm not really an artistic type, so I started to learn C. I started by creating simple (for my own amusement) mods and then making my own games after a while. As I got more into game development I found myself playing games less and less, partly down to lack of funding (the last console I owned was a Sega Megadrive), as all my money tended to go on PC parts, and partly just because I found the development side more interesting now.
Recently I've found myself being less enthused with the games industry for many reasons, some of which I can't quite grasp myself. I've questioned whether I really want to continue what has been my dream, for at least the past seven years, of getting into the games industry. The point of all this waffling is this. Reading about the history of llamasoft, the development blogs and playing the old games again has helped me realise I still do love games. I can't say I've reached enlightenment yet, but I must thank Jeff for providing me the motivation I need to perservere in my dissertation work, and for just generally putting a smile on my face.
I am upset that Unity has been cancelled of course, and that the person who has provided so much inspiration to me lately has had such a setback, but I've already gained a lot out of this community and I know this is not the end
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