Comments on: Here’s One Question You Should Avoid Asking (Or Answering) http://www.gameproducer.net/2009/08/03/heres-one-question-you-should-avoid-asking-or-answering/ I bake games. Indie style. Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jake Birkett http://www.gameproducer.net/2009/08/03/heres-one-question-you-should-avoid-asking-or-answering/comment-page-1/#comment-135698 Jake Birkett Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:43:26 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=3362#comment-135698 At first the Blitz forums were very useful for helping me learn the language. Then I began using them socially, and it was fun and I made contacts who helped me with my games. I also used the forums to refine and sell my BlitzMax framework (made over $10,000), so that worked well. But yes I wasted a certain amount of time in pointless threads. Indiegamer was more business focussed for me, I learnt a lot and made some good contacts to the extent that I got offered my job at BFG! Still, there was probably some time wasted on that forum as well. Then there's blogs. Most have been very useful to me though. I have wasted some money on a couple of marketing info products that I never implemented, but not much, and I daresay that lots of people could say the same. So overall I personally feel OK about the time I spent on forums/blogs, but I do spend lots less time now that I know more. I just go to key ones and scan them and only get involved if I can help or I need to know something. At first the Blitz forums were very useful for helping me learn the language. Then I began using them socially, and it was fun and I made contacts who helped me with my games. I also used the forums to refine and sell my BlitzMax framework (made over $10,000), so that worked well. But yes I wasted a certain amount of time in pointless threads. Indiegamer was more business focussed for me, I learnt a lot and made some good contacts to the extent that I got offered my job at BFG! Still, there was probably some time wasted on that forum as well. Then there’s blogs. Most have been very useful to me though. I have wasted some money on a couple of marketing info products that I never implemented, but not much, and I daresay that lots of people could say the same.

So overall I personally feel OK about the time I spent on forums/blogs, but I do spend lots less time now that I know more. I just go to key ones and scan them and only get involved if I can help or I need to know something.

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