It's pretty funny because I got lucky and got paid to game development with people who made some big hits and the very first thing we did after getting a block to draw on the screen was try to make a fun game mechanic. Even for a multiplayer online game - we made or simulated something that could be done on a developer's machine to find something fun first and then worked on the multiplayer details that this blogger spent a large amount of time on - in at least two of the three parts of the blog postings on this project - we had difficulties to overcome in exactly the same manner in adding multiplayer to a game but that was after we had something fun.

It also validates their student loan payments.