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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Trouble in Paradise

Things are not going well at my game studios. I'm having my first employee vs employer spat.

I have a programmer who isn't following orders. I asked him to transmit his code-thus-far last week, and he still hasn't done it. I've been repeatedly leaving voice mails and email, but he still hasn't given me that code; it's been almost a full work week. He just replies with how unreasonable I'm being.

Now, I am not in the wrong here. He is blatantly breaking his contract by not delivering the code in a timely manner, and despite the fact that it would only take 5 to 10 minutes to give me something, I still have absolutely no work from him.

I'm really at a loss here. I want him to keep working, but if he won't let me see his work when I ask for it-how can I continue?
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween

Hi, guys. This is quite possibly the scariest Halloween I've ever experienced. I'm not being chased by ghouls or anything, but I am failing miserably in my attempt to run a video game development company.

I should have had playable code at the beginning of this month, but here I am at the end of the month with no code to show at all. This leaves my publisher disappointed in me, and It leaves me disappointed in myself.

The scary part is these credit card bills that keep piling up from running this business. Their scarier that Freddy any day of the week.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Stop. Server time.

I'm migrating my haze-studios.com server today. I've might be down or weird for the next few days.

I'm sure you're all broken up about this. :(
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