It’s a neat experience being an indie game developer and a dad. Unlike my daytime job, there is very few impressive visuals in ASP.NET web applications that I could use to impress my son. There is only so much map searching and results grids can do for a 3 year old. But making a space ship that shoots asteroids? Now that’s something he knows!

It’s been a pretty rough week so my development has been slow going for Space ROX the last few days and I’ve lost momentum. But having a 3 year old begging me to make the spaceship shoot its cannons has been more than a motivator for me to get right back on track and moving. Seeing the delight on his face when the spaceship could finally shoot its guns was well worth the lost sleep.

Now that he can shoot the ships guns, he wants something to shoot. I can’t wait to see his face when I get that part done. It’s really exciting being a game developer dad. You have the most enthusiastic QA team ever.