{"id":25123,"date":"2011-05-27T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-knew-then-and-i-affirm-now-that-to-get-into\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:27:47","slug":"i-knew-then-and-i-affirm-now-that-to-get-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-knew-then-and-i-affirm-now-that-to-get-into\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25123 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-knew-then-and-i-affirm-now-that-to-get-into\/attachment\/25124\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"62\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_llv0lu07LW1qbup7mo1_100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>i knew then, and i affirm now, that to get into this industry, you need to be a skilled at one of two things: art or programming. It\u2019s very unusual to skip the queue, so don\u2019t hold out hope. Instead, devote yourself to being useful or talented at something.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: Is this really your dream? Do you REALLY want to get into this industry? Then stop whining, stop playing World of Warcraft, and stop cooking up new and impossibly large game designs for RPGs and MMOs. Stop mistaking your notebook full of game ideas with actual completed game projects. Stop confusing game playing with game development. Stop equating your knowledge of games with some mystical birthright creating games. Instead, <strong>devote yourself completely to doing whatever it bloody well takes to succeed: that means starting small, and finishing something \u2013 then starting slightly larger, and finishing something else.<\/strong> You may not have the luxury of doing that on someone else\u2019s dime as a salaried employee, but i guarantee you won\u2019t get where you\u2019re going unless you translate angst into action. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.untoldentertainment.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/tenure\/\">untoldentertainment.com \u00bb TENure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>emphasis added.<\/p>\n<p>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i knew then, and i affirm now, that to get into this industry, you need to be a skilled at one of two things: art or programming. It\u2019s very unusual to skip the queue, so don\u2019t hold out hope. Instead, devote yourself to being useful or talented at something. Lesson: Is this really your dream? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25125,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions\/25125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}