Yes, I'm hiring a freelancer to do my code.
I know that makes me a horrid person in the video game community by most standards. Everyone always says, "Learn how to code."
OK, sure if it was Ruby on Rails, I probably wouldn't mind. But, no, I don't want to learn Objective C while I pay other people. I might as well just pay more people. You know, because I'm not completely destitute yet.
The sad thing is that I want to learn how to code...I just don't have the time at the moment, and it's not cost efficient. Second, I really believe in the mantra of focusing on what you're good at. I'm good at
- Creative stuff
- Managing people
- Marketing/PR
- Giving away my money
All of this suggest, logically, that I should hire someone else to do it. Also
- I would have to buy a Mac (I had a dev but he backed out...we would have used his stuff)
- I would have to learn everything
- The game idea would fizzle out I would get frustrated, I would throw said Mac against wall, negating both progress and possession of a shiny object
- I believe in hiring people helps make the world a better place because people get paid to do work, and you get to stress less. It's like charity, only I get something else out of it.
More importantly, I'm not very good at logical thinking at the best of times (I'm investing in an adventure iPhone game) so I think someone with experience and code and tricks on hand makes a lot more sense than well, anything else that I could come up with. I have ideas about how things work, and I could probably cobble things together or tweak (read: destroy) code once it's finished, but it's just so much easier working with someone with experience.
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