GoodBye Gaming World

BazookaTime

With about two weeks left on my GS Pro I wanted to say my goodbyes now, I decided some time ago that I was leaving the game making business once my Pro was up. I have been using GS for about four years now and worked with a lot of really great people. I am fortunate in that making games has always been a hobby for me, my family would have starved years ago if we relied on my income from making games/templates.

I have two games approved by Apple that are still coming out, Bungo and The Fuddies and have about nine months left on my Apple Dev license, so I will be leaving some games in the App Store until that expires.

My Games-
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/paul-lind/id450044710?ign-mpt=uo=4

If I have something in my portfolio that would fit in with the type of games you do, feel free to get a hold of me.

One of the hardest parts about making the decision to give up on this dream (Hobby) was all of the unfinished pieces I have sitting around, wondering if there was a great game in there somewhere. Like most everyone, I am sitting on unfinished templates, art and music but the one thing I don't have anymore, is the passion.

Over the years I worked with a number of people, my favorites were, @mELTINGsKYsTUDIOS (Who still makes amazing games using a different tool) and Alex @GuaveMedia. Alex has been involved with pretty much everything I have ever done. As for initially learning how to use GS, @DeepBlueApps made this possible for me by putting out user friendly, quality templates. I have said this before, for the first couple years I was with GS, I thought DBA was part of GS (Ownership) that is how instrumental and visible they were.

I didn't get into this business to make a quick buck, I got into it to make a game that I would want to play and hoped that someone else would want to play it also. I never had a goal of what I needed to achieve to feel successful, I just did it because I had a passion for it but alas, the passion is gone. I still tinker with making physical dice, card and board games and will probably continue to do that.

If you never met me....

www.paulmcraelind.com

You can tell by my outdated website that the passion fizzled out a while back.

If you would like to contact me about anything...

paulmcraelind@gmail.com

I wish continued good luck to those of you that make games because you love to.

Paul

For those of you that read this far, here are some codes to my upcoming game Bungo-(I have more if needed)

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JLTLWLYK6PFX
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UtopianGames

I will miss you being around m8 and hope one day we can have a few beers and chat about old times

Take care,

Darren.

gingagaming

Good luck in your future @BazookaTime‌

Damien

pHghost

@BazookaTime‌ -- All the best with whatever is coming next for you! And if you ever re-discover your passion for GS, we'll be waiting!

P.S.: Funny thing about Bungo -- even though it isn't yet visible on the App Store, I downloaded it with 37JPPK9MR466 and am just playing it! And it's fun! What is its iTunes Connect status?

BazookaTime

@pHghost said:
BazookaTime‌ -- All the best with whatever is coming next for you! And if you ever re-discover your passion for GS, we'll be waiting!

P.S.: Funny thing about Bungo -- even though it isn't yet visible on the App Store, I downloaded it with 37JPPK9MR466 and am just playing it! And it's fun! What is its iTunes Connect status?

Thanks. Bungo was approved by Apple a while back but since I didn't have the energy/passion to really promote it, I put the release date off in the future. The hope was I will get the desire to promote it or someone will take it off my hands.

-Timo-

Sad to see you go... I wish you the best of luck!

gingagaming

@pHghost said:
P.S.: Funny thing about Bungo -- even though it isn't yet visible on the App Store, I downloaded it with 37JPPK9MR466 and am just playing it! And it's fun! What is its iTunes Connect status?

Well if its availible to download then ill download it now!, 9F3F47LLNLRE Taken..

FallingBoxStudios

Sad to here you're leaving
Good luck with whatever you do in the future

took WERAY4HHKT7H, will leave a review.

Riffel

Best luck @BazookaTime follow your dreams

Braydon_SFX

Nice getting to know you on the forums for past few years, Paul. Best of luck and wishes !

neoman

Sad to see you go ... All the best for the future ...

ycan

Best of luck. Used JLTLWLYK6PFX

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Best of luck and I hope you find what truly gives you joy! Game making is a hard difficult road. Like becoming an actor or musician it's long years of toil and dedication. It can take a decade or more to find any modest success in the arts. Lots of people come here full of energy thinking it's going to be modestly easy to succeed and that they have that idea that will blow everyone away. I wish I had a dollar for every time I read that sentiment on the forums over the last four years.

I give you props for realizing that this isn't for you and having the courage to venture out and find that thing you really love. Life is filled with such journeys and it's always the journey that is exciting not the arriving. God Speed!

VGX

All the best to you buddy.

gamestudent

Take luck. And I hope you find another hobby.

8BitAvrin

Best of luck with your future endeavors and keep having fun

wanegroup

Good luck! Used - AYXXNJJXTEHL

tatiang

Thanks for taking the time to say goodbye. Take care!

dgackey

Good luck @BazookaTime‌!

jamie_c

Good Luck with whatever you do next!

LumpApps

Sad to see you go. Good luck with what comes on your path next.

RP

@BazookaTime Good luck on your future endeavors.

Franto

I have just a little over two weeks left on my pro account to. I'm trying to finish my game even though I've got a lot of work to do. Even after my pro is gone, I'll still use GS, but I'll probably have to wait until next year before I can get pro again.

Good luck to you where ever you choose to go. @BazookaTime

Lovejoy

Although that means once less person to compete against in this cutthroat world, it saddens me to see a fellow "Gamesalad-er?" go. Good luck to you.

KennedyE

I am just coming and you are just going, I really believe GameSalad has a great future, though I want to concentrate on android game development using windows creator, Goodbye!

KillerPenguinStudios

@BazookaTime‌,
I am truly sorry to hear that you are leaving and hope you find a new hobby that brings you happiness! I believe if you are not happy with something then it is time to move on to something new that can bring that excitement back into your life! I enjoyed the few times we talked here on the forums and hope GREAT new things come your way!!!

lycettebros

Good luck @BazookaTime

CaramelTigerClan

Good luck and I wish you well @BazookaTime

yattamove

Goodbye @BazookaTime‌
Goodluck with your new found passion.

BazookaTime

Thanks to all of you that posted! I wanted to wait until my final game, The Fuddies was released before leaving and today is that day. The Fuddies is a free to play iPhone game and features hats from Pine Entertainments, Pocket Army.

Please check out The Fuddies and leave a review.

Thanks...Paul

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fuddies/id898165538?mt=8&uo=4

BazookaTime

I am not making games anymore but did put together two bundles, one for iPad and one for iPhone that I wanted to post the links to. I don't expect to see many sales but if I do I will report back and share my experience on bundling games.

Retro Arcade Bundle (iphone) (4 Games for $1.99)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app-bundle/id921381834?mt=8

Super Arcade Bundle (ipad) (5 Games for $1.99)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app-bundle/id921381843?mt=8