Gmoore
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 10:51 pm
Hey guys. So a status report.
I won't blow flowers and candy. I'll tell you how things are.
Things have really changed for the better for me and my family. I've been able to throw off a stagnant, go no where job and really dive into a great opportunity. A life changing opportunity. So my last 3 months have been 110% consumed getting this business up and running, staffed and work started. To be successful I had to put anything and everything aside to meet my objectives. Family, friends, projects. My primary customer is the biggest grossing hospital in the United States. So that's where I've been. Please at some level, be happy for me and my family (and the 2 kids I can now pay to go to college which lets me sleep at night).
When I purchased this engine last year, this was my break. Or potential break. I did put my heart and soul into it. I still have my heart in it. This opportunity just had to be put on hold. So fortunately in some respects and unfortunate in others, I get more gross revenue in a day than the engine has made in its lifetime.
So where do we go? I am torn but sympathetic. To me, this engine is more than just a game engine. I have 27 projects and/or prototypes based on this engine. So just selling it causes future licensing problems for me. I have plans to hire a PHP programmer full time within the next 60 days just to work on it. Not necessarily NWE as it is, but the iOS prototype, Android blogging engine and all of the others with a core of the NWE engine. Unfortunately, let the engine 'just go' isn't an option. My companies future is too embedded in it. Maybe something can be worked out?
So I don't really know where to go with this. I can just stop selling the engine. I certainly can commit to code reviews of modules or just stop uploading them. Either way, until I can pay someone to manage the project for me, my time will be in short supply. But I want to do what is good yet workable.
NWE and its' cousins are my future still, just taking a temporary back seat to the now.
Let me know what you think.
Greg
PS. My Dell laptop died, which got me out of my daily schedule of messages. I am now on a MacBook Pro (learning curve). Three of my guys are now using Xamarin for multi-platform development.
I won't blow flowers and candy. I'll tell you how things are.
Things have really changed for the better for me and my family. I've been able to throw off a stagnant, go no where job and really dive into a great opportunity. A life changing opportunity. So my last 3 months have been 110% consumed getting this business up and running, staffed and work started. To be successful I had to put anything and everything aside to meet my objectives. Family, friends, projects. My primary customer is the biggest grossing hospital in the United States. So that's where I've been. Please at some level, be happy for me and my family (and the 2 kids I can now pay to go to college which lets me sleep at night).
When I purchased this engine last year, this was my break. Or potential break. I did put my heart and soul into it. I still have my heart in it. This opportunity just had to be put on hold. So fortunately in some respects and unfortunate in others, I get more gross revenue in a day than the engine has made in its lifetime.
So where do we go? I am torn but sympathetic. To me, this engine is more than just a game engine. I have 27 projects and/or prototypes based on this engine. So just selling it causes future licensing problems for me. I have plans to hire a PHP programmer full time within the next 60 days just to work on it. Not necessarily NWE as it is, but the iOS prototype, Android blogging engine and all of the others with a core of the NWE engine. Unfortunately, let the engine 'just go' isn't an option. My companies future is too embedded in it. Maybe something can be worked out?
So I don't really know where to go with this. I can just stop selling the engine. I certainly can commit to code reviews of modules or just stop uploading them. Either way, until I can pay someone to manage the project for me, my time will be in short supply. But I want to do what is good yet workable.
NWE and its' cousins are my future still, just taking a temporary back seat to the now.
Let me know what you think.
Greg
PS. My Dell laptop died, which got me out of my daily schedule of messages. I am now on a MacBook Pro (learning curve). Three of my guys are now using Xamarin for multi-platform development.