There's a reason I got into games, and there's a reason I'm a software developer. Software engineering for me has nothing to do with wanting to make money out of it. That might be a reason I look down on boot camps. I only ever learned to code because I wanted to make a game.

I have a long way to go to be good at anything. But that's why playing games is good. It reminds me of the bigger picture - what I'm actually participating in.

Today, I played Back 4 Blood, a game that has been on my shelf for ages. I finally got back into it, knowing that the developers had tweaked the difficulty enough times to make it playable. I was dismayed at first when my PC kept crashing. I ended up turning down the graphics settings, and I think that made a huge difference - no more crashes after that. The game is fun, but it's not Left 4 Dead. As I said in my last post about it, it's more like a shooter than a game. Also, games like this are much more fun co-op, and I was only playing solo campaign.

Either way, I had a good time playing games for a day.

Maybe it will inspire me to finish up Balloon Ghost and move on to other, bigger projects?