Finding the right girl to spend my life with and deciding what to do for a living, for the rest of my life are the two most important questions I am struggling to find answers to. Sigh! I decided to outsource the first task to my parents. They seem to be very well connected to accomplish it properly without me interfering. But the second task, I am still struggling. If I outsource it to some IT company, it would be my doom!
A year back, when I published my first novel, I decided to be an author. My friends told me I have undergone a complete shift in paradigm. I gave up coding entirely. When I thought things couldn’t get worse, I started this cycle thing. As if cycling hundreds of kilometers was not enough, I started collecting used cycles from those willing to donate in an attempt to rent them out. But the work involved was too much and the returns too less. Just when I thought I should go back to writing another book, it was the time to choose electives. I started searching for some course which will leave me free and I was suggested to take computer graphics by my well wishers.
The first one month I paid no attention in the class. It was just another stupid programming library that would torture young minds. But the first mini project had a drastic effect on me. OpenGL swept me off my feet. The mystery behind state-of-art games like Need For Speed, Halo etc started unraveling. I decided to create one. A game which does not require hundreds of people working on it forever but something which an individual could code and which would catch the eye. I was inspired by Trainyard, an iphone game and decided to create SpacePuzzle on similar lines. It took me two months to create a linux version, a windows version and an iPhone version. But I guess I would need around 6 more months to complete the final touches. That’s the irony as I realized when I wrote my first book too. Final touches are the most crucial and time consuming part of any product being developed to be published/released!
So well, hoping to get this into the iStore in 6 months time IF, and that is a big IF, my interests do not change overtime!
why do u always conveniently forget to mention the source of inspiration..??? eh!! :P
ReplyDeletein the interests of general public: thts me!! :D
awesome man ..
ReplyDelete@ranjeet... i would give u 10% credit :)
ReplyDelete@archan.. well not yet!
All the best GJ.
ReplyDeleteHi jayanth,
ReplyDeleteI am Avinasha Shastry. I am a huge fan of your book as it helped me to pursue my passion for entrepreneurship. I am a 2009 engineering pass out right in the middle of recession. Due to this I decided to give entrepreneurship a shot.
During the initial stages you book kept me hopeful with what I was doing. Today I am Co-Founder of a startup called 99tests which does crowd sourced software testing.
When I read your above article, I thought we share a lot in common and I would love to meet.. Hope you will consider this request... :) I sign off hoping you will reply.. :)
"I was suggested to take computer graphics by my well wishers"... I still remember the day when u were running around looking for electives like SAN during the add/drop period. I am glad that you did not get a chance to torture Prasanna sir again...
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