Welp. Just a little rant.

I’m a professional. I release software regularly for my day job. I set up targets and knock ‘em down. Only once in my professional career have I missed a target that I set, and that was due to 1) not being able to say NO. and 2) loosing most of my work… Due to my own stupidity. With that said, in the last 5 years alone, I’m able to say that I (either working alone or as part of a team) have released 14 products! I understand workload, projections, constraints, people and software. I de-conflict. I’ve grown. I identify potential problem areas early. I’m getting better. I follow Joel’s software test, because I want to. I’m good at managing products and getting better at managing expectations. I have a team that I can rely on! A team that will follow me into war.

For the Dungeon Crawler, I’ve given years of my time and I see the end. But, let me tell you that it’s true…. the last 10% is more work than I ever expected. I knew that the last 10% was a rush. I knew that going into this. But being Software Engineer, Project Manager, Designer, Release Manager, part Artists, part PR Manager, part Sound Engineer makes this last 10% so much more difficult to achieve.

I get why there are so few indies who really get to were they want to be. Why there are so many projects that start up, but few are completed. This last 10% is HARD.

Wish us luck, we’re going to need it!

-RT