digideath

I'm 37 yo. I'm NOT a kid. Over the past 25 years of my life I have created full games, game engines, apps... and a ton of other stuff I wont discuss with any of you. I'm mentioned in the credit roll of several triple a games for the work I gave helping devs overcome issues or to recreate authentic feeling environments. I'm an all rounder. I work scripting, audio and gfx single handed. I go where the urge takes me and work on whatever idea springs to mind. I have absolute freedom that way of expression and decision. You know what? I never once in my life tried to make a single penny out any of it. I do it for fun. As a hobby. I give it all for free. My reward is seeing people say "wow. I love this.". My reward is knowing that people are using my work and enjoying it and tbh, more of you use my stuff than you will ever realise. Over the years I've been asked "Why don't you make money from it? Cmon big shot. Why don't you get rich from it if yer so clever?" The answers simple. Cause it feels dirty. Cause that's the game of companies and corporations. Cause I know most of the people at the other end, like me, don't have much money to give and have already paid so much that they barely had just to get to the point of having a working machine and a legit copy of a game. Also because if I want to make money from it, ill get a job working for a company who will pay me for it. That simple. But even that I still object to. That old hackers golden rule. Never for profit. Never exploit others. People seem to have forgotten the values all this was built on over the past 2 decades. Never forget. Modding started out as hacking. Honestly. Stop all this nonsense. Get back to yer roots for gods sake. All this is gonna end up doing is driving people even further down the road of hacking and piracy. Dev companies are dying left and right and pushing gamers further down that road of piracy is only going to devastate the industry further.