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The ever inspiring Jake Birkett is back with an absolutely wonderful piece for anyone having trouble with their start up, staying motivated or breaking into the industry. Take it from someone that has overcome all of those obstacles and is living from his dream, the only thing stopping you is you
Title: ‘How do I Overcome Game Development Obstacles?‘ – Original Article
Written by: Jake Birkett (www.greyaliengames.com)
Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on April 10th, 2009
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Easily the most valuable article so far!
It makes me wish iTunes had a sticky bit for podcasts. Every time I listen to it, I have to remark it as new!
Comment by Sindisil — April 21, 2009 @ 3:22 am
Strange that.. I swear that itunes has had it out for me from the get go
We’ll you could always sign up for email updates, or subscribe to the RSS feed via Google reader or Netvibes. If you haven’t checked out netvibes.com I would definitely recommend it either way, it is completely changed the way I use the internet. Which reminds me I have a draft writeup on using netvibes on my other blog that I need to finish
Comment by admin — April 21, 2009 @ 10:58 am