Also, you’re right about programming and design being very much related; many game designers whose work I admire (Tim Schafer, Telltale’s very own Dave Grossman and Brendan Ferguson, etc.) are also/have also been programmers. Plus, from what I’ve observed at Telltale, a lot of the programmers (myself included) get a surprisingly large amount of design input; however, that may just be due to the small teams.

In any case, I hope I don’t have to do anything management related. I know it’s important, and I suppose I would be very much able to do it if the need struck me, but I’d rather do all the fun creative stuff and let more capable and willing people handle the bureaucracy instead.

So… I haven’t seen Waking Life yet, but I’d like to. Have you seen A Scanner Darkly, yet? I thought he did a pretty good job adapting a tough psychological novel, and it may not have been as possible without that rotoscoped animation style.

And Rikard is awesome, as usual.

anyway.

life tends to have luls,
but you know what?

your moving forewward and growing everyday, so that should at least be something.

I know what you mean about programming. A game programming forum where I used to be a regular (and still visits sometimes) is full of people that get stuck in the programming details when attempting to make a game, always perfecting the engine but never getting it to a game. I could never do that. While I do enjoy the programming part of it, it is – like for you – means to an end. The game is what matters to me, not the code.