Kiba’s Decree To Himself
(This document serve as a goalpost eassy to force Kiba into doing something for his dream)
As it happens, my plan for the future change often, depending on whatever fancy I have at the moment. What seem to be a year dedicated to Space Fighter Ace is seemly whisked away to RubyTet project. This is largely because it is easier to develop RubyTet rather than Space Fighter Ace, which suffer tremendously due to the lack of my physics and mathematical knowledge. Even with all the knowledges about physics and mathematics I absorbed from school, they are all useless to me. The situation can, however, reverse itself very easily. I would be in the midst of developing Space Fighter Ace again because I have finally chipped away the obstacle while RubyTet suffers because of a new obstacles that I couldn’t overcome over time.
However, the most improtant thing is that I keep developing, not diffusing my effort accross different codebase and concentrating on games that truly matters.
I must also spent some mininum time on the maintenance and growth of my two site, in term of traffic and content creation.
It was easy to do content creation for libregamewiki, but the promotional aspect was somewhat of a mystery to me. It was a matter of updating the content or creating new articles. The KibaBase site have the opposite problem. KibaBase needs content but it also need good blog posts, which are difficult to think of. The wiki aspect of the site need some serious working for updating the content. I also need to work on the books that I has promised myself to work on. Promotional aspect was easy to do for KibaBase if I have anything to promote. Both sites suffer from absence of maintenance, which I must rectify soon.
The most important goal in this whole enterprise of game development and website maintenance is of course, profitability. KibaBase right now is about ten bucks under. Of course, I will get a slapped with a big bill for renewal hosting next year, depleting all of my reserve fund, leaving with none to fund next years operation apart from libregamewiki.
KibaBase do not have any mean of generating revenues for itself. I could easily put up ads right now and start generating some, but I want to build up the traffics to 100 pageviews a day. Plus, I must still build the presentation for the homepage of KibaBase, which is currently spartian in content. I might put up a donation button for anybody who is interested in keeping KibaBase alive.
The most important priority right now is to build KibaBase to save the site. The long term goal is continue development for RubyTet and Space Fighter Ace project for at least a year and longer if needed be until they reach their respective finished version. Libregamewiki will remain an obligation for the foreseeable future. It will need to be consistently maintained.
So to cement this goal, I am imposing some objectives that I must achieve on a day to day basis and guideline for how many hours to work and when.
The two website, KibaBase, and Libregamewiki will get 10 edits each per day. They should be done at the earliest in earnest so I can dedicate the rest of time to other activities such as putting the fires in school related duties. Improtant development of KibaBase should occur on weekends. I should also have a bunch of topics(5 at least) to develop, delete, add and write out for the blog. My goal is to write an interesting eassy every week. That’s for the in-between free time.
Game development wise, I dedicate one hour to Space Fighter Ace and RubyTet projects and its related technology project on weekdays. I also want to do a quick fast development session every weekend. So every weekend requires 8 hours of development time. Also, development starts after school, which is 3:50 PM. To ensure that I don’t work late during weekends, development hour start at 8:00 AM in the morning or earlier.
As for summer, that’s a very special time. I am going to vamp it up the development hours to 28 hours, doing 4 hours every day.
This goal and plan of mine is based largely on time-boxing and timing strategy that I have used in the last great 30 days experiment. So I am expecting it to work wonderfully.
On the other hand, there’s a lot of objectives. So I’ll have to write down a task planner to keep track of what I need to do.
This essay will be in effect starting Monday. By that time, I should have a task planner and other necessities ready to tackle my goals on a day to day basis.
Wish me luck!
~Kiba
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