Remakes

While this article about the success of remakes and reboots is about movies, there are a lot of corollaries to the games industry as well. It's something that's been harped upon by critics and commentators over and over again, and I suppose I just want to echo the sentiments. Stop remaking stuff (badly) unless you're going to pull a JJ Abrams and make Star Trek. Rabblerabblerabble!

edit: And really, what I'm saying is people should stop paying to watch/play crappy remakes and sequels.

Goals

I recently came up with a list of goals, short, medium, and long-term. A lot of these goals overlap in terms of personal and professional, but I was hoping to post them somewhere so I could keep track of them. I'm not going to lie; part of the reason for putting them out here on a blog publicly is also to keep me accountable. Without further ado, here they are:

Short-term goals (starting now/constant)

• Come up with a game design a week (500 words)
• Blog once a week (500 words)
• Play piano once a week (30 minutes)
• Play violin once a week (30 minutes)
• Play guitar once a week (30 minutes)
• Bake/make a new dish once a week
• Bike to work at least three times a week
• Read at least one nonfiction and one fiction book a month.
• Watch/listen to French newscasts (with the intent of picking up French again)
  

Medium term goals (6 months-2 years)

• Learn to code in C++
• Become fluent at reading music for guitar
• Bike to work everyday
• Learn how to use Maya
  

Long term goals (2 years - 5 years)

• Self-publish a game
• Open a restaurant/coffee shop
• Start a clothing store
• Pay off all my student loans
• Convert everything I own to digital media
• Become fluent in French

A lot of these goals are pretty out there, some less tangible than others, but I figured I'd put them "on paper" and actually start tracking them, with today, June 22, 2009 as the starting point. The longer terms goals aren't going to just start 6 months or 3 years from now - I'll be creating more tangible steps for how I'll be able to actually accomplish these goals. Crazy? Probably, but I might as well try. Most people come up with New Year's Resolutions in January, but June's as good a time as any. And screw making resolutions for just one year- I got five covered.