Hi everyone this is a short article but is how I currently feel right now...
For those who don't know me I'm "Dilmer Valecillos" and I love to make minimalistic games on the side which means I have a day job and I do all of these work on weekends or when ...
What an adventure !
I went to a conference about 2 months ago and each afternoon after the conference was done, I would go to the hotel and do what I love most which is game development. That first day I was playing around with Unity3d post processing effects and decided to brainstorm few new ...
I'm about to release a new game with exactly 6 days before I do so and to change things up a bit, I decided to do something different and attended a conference where people like Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk spoke. I was a bit oppose to going to conferences where many speakers just ...
Some of you may know me already from releasing games such as Stickman World which took 3 years, Cubiques which took 62 days, and my recent game Cubiques 2 which took 35 days and it is a sequel from my first Cubiques game now set to release next month.
I just wanted to take ...
If you’re like me and have worked as an indie for a few months or years then you know how crazy can life get when you’ve joined the indie game industry. Why do I say the term “crazy” why is it so bad? honestly is not bad at all, but what is bad ...
I would have never imagined to have done what I have done so far in the last 3 years of my entrepreneurial adventure.
I clearly remember starting on a new project and feeling so scared to get it out to the public. Not only I was scared but I didn't really feel that ...
I couldn't resist to post about how much I have leverage all my knowledge as a full stack developer, in particular with .NET technologies has given me.
When I started working in Unity 5 years ago, I had junior experience as a c# developer. Back then I didn't know as much as I ...
First let me take a breath and say what a journey indie game development is...
If you know me already hi :) and thank you for coming back, if not, let me introduce myself...
My name is Dilmer Valecillos and my role can vary from time to time. Sometimes I see myself as a coder, a ...
As with any other skill, I had to learn to become a persistent person in my own projects. Not only I needed to keep the project excitement going but also had to learn to master habits that will ultimately train my brain, and overcome all challenges that any large project bring.
Staying motivated can be one of the hardest tasks I encountered while working in my own game development projects. Reasons are many, obstacles are many, challenges are many and last of all I worked A LOT of hours even when I didn't anticipate to do so.
I ...