This seems like an appropriate time to post some goals and thoughts about what I want to achieve during the next year.
A good place to start would probably be with Weapons Grade Awesome, which I mentioned in the previous post and is responsible for my choice of name for this blog. Weapons Grade Awesome will be the name of my new indie games website, where I intend to release games for online play and/or download. My current goal is to have at least 3 small games online by June this year and more (perhaps some slightly larger ones) available by the end of the year. The first will be a simple gridlock game, to be followed by a minigolf game. Both of these initial games will be playable online as Flash games and aim to gain revenue through MochiAds advertising at the beginning of the game, and each will be in the format of a single play per day game where a new challenge is generated daily in order to draw regular traffic to the site. The minigolf game will produce 3 different difficulty levels daily for players to attempt to progress through and will also unlike the gridlock game feature a deluxe version players can download for a small fee which will include additional gameplay modes and a map editor.
I also intend to improve my music related skills this year. I’ve been letting my abilities with the guitar slide a bit and I’d really like to start pushing myself again. I also intend to put a real effort into improving my singing as much as possible, and will be focussing on getting a bit more “grunt” into my voice. My other music-related goal is to finally form a band that actually gets beyond the planning stage, and to hopefully write/play/record some cool music.
Apart from the above the big area in which I’d like to improve is with my social skills. As some have pointed out to me recently I do tend to be pretty withdrawn, and this is an area in which I feel I can improve and hopefully let people a bit closer.
Thanks for reading.