{"id":1416,"date":"2012-04-19T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:00:43","slug":"joining-team-shellrazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Joining Team Shellrazer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back at the start of 2010, when I started on this weird little Ninja Robot Dinosaur indie adventure, my goal was simple: Make the games I want to make and do them solo.<\/p>\n

Solo. For a guy who has spent 15 years making games ‘the traditional corporate way’, this may seem unusual, but it was a big part of the goal.<\/p>\n

I like working by myself. I enjoy tackling the design, programming and art problems that come with making a game. When I’m sitting at my desk, staring at [code\/a level\/a sprite animation] trying to figure out how to make it work better, I am in the zone. It’s my happy place.<\/p>\n

Nick Waanders<\/a>, founder of Slick Entertainment (n+ and Scrap Metal on XBLA) is an indie developer in Vancouver. We’ve peripherally known each other for years (he left Relic the week after I joined) and became friends a couple of years ago. <\/p>\n

The first time Nick asked me to work with him, I said no. In hindsight, I was probably quite rude about it, but, you know – I wanted to work solo. <\/p>\n

Nick was persistent. He asked me a few more times, throwing the suggestion out whenever we got together. Then he suggested a week long jam, we got together over lunch, threw some ideas around, but nothing really came of it.<\/p>\n

When the Global Game Jam came around, Nick and I were on the same team and throughout the weekend, Nick kept planting the seed. Even when he wasn’t saying the words, I could hear him whispering in my ear, like Vader to Luke: “Join me Shane.” At one point, I swore he told me he was my father. Whispering-in-my-head-Nick denies he said anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Then came Shellrazer. <\/p>\n

Vancouver has a monthly indie developer meet-up called Full Indie. Nick and his partner in crime, Jesse the Drawbarian<\/a>, were showing people things on their phones. People were excited. I was curious.<\/p>\n

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Nick came up to me and showed me some of the visual design that Jesse had put together and Nick looked at me and asked one more time: “Do you want in on this?”.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t a second of hesitation.<\/p>\n

“Dude. It’s a giant turtle, with guns, who shoots things and they blow up. Let’s do this. I’m in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back at the start of 2010, when I started on this weird little Ninja Robot Dinosaur indie adventure, my goal was simple: Make the games I want to make and do them solo. Solo. For a guy who has spent 15 years making games ‘the traditional corporate way’, this may seem unusual, but it was … <\/p>\n

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