I wrote and published my first Android application. An extremely simple one, but it means that I have successfully installed the development environment, learned to write simple Android code, tested the code on my tablet, registered a developer account, and completed the publishing process. So for the following games, which will be more meaningful, I already have experience with most of the process—that increases my self-confidence and could help overcome procrastination.
Why this project? Being able to make some money just by writing games was my dream for a long time, but until recently I didn’t have a plan how to do it. I like thinking and coding, I am not good at graphic design and music, and I have no idea about selling. Coding a game at home, putting in into a web shop and doing some trivial online marketing, seems like something I could do and possibly make some money from it, and most importantly enjoy the whole process. So this is the first step, and it’s something I can do in my spare time. (And as a backup plan, if everything else fails, I will have something nice on my CV.)
If someone is coding Android games in Java, I would be happy to discuss and share experience; my experience with Android is epsilon, but I’m decent at Java SE, so I hope most of that skill will transfer nicely.
My other project is translating the Sequences to Slovak language. 37 articles at this moment, but according to my web statistics, almost no one reads them. Could be because I didn’t do much marketing. I just put links to new translations on my Facebook page—but I expected that some of my friends would get interested, and then share the links. With the exception of one person, that expectation didn’t work. (And it’s not because they already read the English original, because then I would expect them to come to a Bratislava meetup sometimes.) I am updating that LessWrong and LW-style rationality is even less interesting for smart people around me than I expected. (However, that explains some of my experience.) As a last hope, I could switch to translate selectively only the few top-karma articles and their most necessary prerequisites, instead of trying to do it systematically; and if even that fails, then probably there is no audience, or it’s people I have no connection with.
I wrote and published my first Android application. An extremely simple one, but it means that I have successfully installed the development environment, learned to write simple Android code, tested the code on my tablet, registered a developer account, and completed the publishing process. So for the following games, which will be more meaningful, I already have experience with most of the process—that increases my self-confidence and could help overcome procrastination.
Why this project? Being able to make some money just by writing games was my dream for a long time, but until recently I didn’t have a plan how to do it. I like thinking and coding, I am not good at graphic design and music, and I have no idea about selling. Coding a game at home, putting in into a web shop and doing some trivial online marketing, seems like something I could do and possibly make some money from it, and most importantly enjoy the whole process. So this is the first step, and it’s something I can do in my spare time. (And as a backup plan, if everything else fails, I will have something nice on my CV.)
If someone is coding Android games in Java, I would be happy to discuss and share experience; my experience with Android is epsilon, but I’m decent at Java SE, so I hope most of that skill will transfer nicely.
My other project is translating the Sequences to Slovak language. 37 articles at this moment, but according to my web statistics, almost no one reads them. Could be because I didn’t do much marketing. I just put links to new translations on my Facebook page—but I expected that some of my friends would get interested, and then share the links. With the exception of one person, that expectation didn’t work. (And it’s not because they already read the English original, because then I would expect them to come to a Bratislava meetup sometimes.) I am updating that LessWrong and LW-style rationality is even less interesting for smart people around me than I expected. (However, that explains some of my experience.) As a last hope, I could switch to translate selectively only the few top-karma articles and their most necessary prerequisites, instead of trying to do it systematically; and if even that fails, then probably there is no audience, or it’s people I have no connection with.
Is there a Slovak Harry Potter fandom?
Most likely yes. I don’t know how to find them. But I know people that probably know.
(Quick google search didn’t find anything meaningful. There were two facebook pages with 10 likes, and comments only from one person. That’s nothing.)
Thanks for the idea!
“0+ downloads”—surely I’m not actually the first :-) I can even give you an enhancement request: can you make the bubbles antialiased?