First Day Of The Rest Of My Life

This being my first post-GarageGames day, I just posted a new article on my Make It Big In Games blog. It is about getting back into circulation and gives you some reasons why you should too. Here is a quote:

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Well, first up is to blog. Why should I do that? For a bunch of reasons, and I think they apply to anybody that is in business for themselves or even happily employed working for the Man. You need to be a part of the social fabric of your industry. As I have written about in the past, you need to stay in circulation and work on your personal brand.

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Here is a link to the article: First Day Of The Rest Of My Life Please head on over there for more information. Make sure to leave comments on my shiny new Discus comment system (which is turning out to be The Shit... it is sooo good.)




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For even more game making observations I have opened another Twitter account: www.twitter.com/mbgames . This Twitter is only for games, and does not have my environmental, politics, farm, or music stuff in it. So, far, this is working out well.

When Twitter first arrived, I thought it was a bunch of crap. At first it appeared to be a way for people to tell you they were sick, or just farted, or they were hungry. One day when I was surfing a small Oregon farm blog of all things, the writer had the Twitter widget on his site. It said he was at the USU library researching seeds, and was posted two minutes before I got to the page. I loved the immediacy of the experience. When I looked at the rest of his Twitter posts, they were all insightful and informative. Since I have started tweeting in earnest, I have gotten a bunch of great leads and met some interesting people. The moral is, if you are following somebody that is posting a bunch of inane crap, just quit following them.

Onward!

-Jeff Tunnell, Game Maker

P.S. the image in this post has little to do with the post. It is just a screen shot of Incredible Toons, a game that I worked on a long time ago. I made it the temporary background of the mbgames Twitter page.)