The Art of Game Design - First lesson learned!
For quite some time I wanted to have dual boot OS in my computer and wanted to install Redhat Linux on my Windows XP PC. This was postponed for some reason or the other. After Pat's suggestion, I wanted to install Ubuntu Linux...So I downloaded the sw, created an image copy but something or the other kept coming up...
Last Friday I started reading the book "The Art of Game Design - A Book of lenses". The words, "Design games. Start now! Don't wait! Don't even finish this conversation! Just start designing! Go! Now!" from chapter 1 inspired and motivated me. So immediately I started installing Ubuntu Linux on an old i386 machine I had.
During the first run I choose the default partition options (2GB ext3 for root - / and 184MB for swap partition). The installation was struck at 24%. Then I restarted the installation and this time it was struck at 54%. The third time the installation completed and I was able to login, see all the files in XP and open the files as in XP! I was so thrilled and happy but the root / file system was almost full and the automatic critical updates could not be installed! I checked the various options and decided to reinstall with manual partition and allot more space. I was able to do that (8GB ext3 for root - / and 1GB for swap) and the installation went through fine. I was so happy, played with it for some time and left the old PC running in Ubuntu Linux with rich background and photos. I did the installation in my laptop also. The very first lesson from the book "The Art of Game Design" was very helpful!
Alas after 48hrs of the enriched background and Photo in the foreground, the old PC died! Did not start, I lost a PC for now! The 2nd lesson from page 2 of the book that I learned was "Will you fail? Yes you will. You will fail again, and again, and again. You will fail many, many more times than you will succeed. But these failures are your only path to success"! With the motivation from the 2nd lesson that I learned, I started installing some sw in my laptop in XP and they kept giving errors! So I re-installed XP and nothing worked!
It flashed to me to install Vista, so I installed Vista in my laptop and kept installing many sw through the morning of the end of the long weekend!
It was an amazing experience of failure and success!
I learnt very valuable inspirational lessons from the first two pages of the book!
-Suresh
Last Friday I started reading the book "The Art of Game Design - A Book of lenses". The words, "Design games. Start now! Don't wait! Don't even finish this conversation! Just start designing! Go! Now!" from chapter 1 inspired and motivated me. So immediately I started installing Ubuntu Linux on an old i386 machine I had.
During the first run I choose the default partition options (2GB ext3 for root - / and 184MB for swap partition). The installation was struck at 24%. Then I restarted the installation and this time it was struck at 54%. The third time the installation completed and I was able to login, see all the files in XP and open the files as in XP! I was so thrilled and happy but the root / file system was almost full and the automatic critical updates could not be installed! I checked the various options and decided to reinstall with manual partition and allot more space. I was able to do that (8GB ext3 for root - / and 1GB for swap) and the installation went through fine. I was so happy, played with it for some time and left the old PC running in Ubuntu Linux with rich background and photos. I did the installation in my laptop also. The very first lesson from the book "The Art of Game Design" was very helpful!
Alas after 48hrs of the enriched background and Photo in the foreground, the old PC died! Did not start, I lost a PC for now! The 2nd lesson from page 2 of the book that I learned was "Will you fail? Yes you will. You will fail again, and again, and again. You will fail many, many more times than you will succeed. But these failures are your only path to success"! With the motivation from the 2nd lesson that I learned, I started installing some sw in my laptop in XP and they kept giving errors! So I re-installed XP and nothing worked!
It flashed to me to install Vista, so I installed Vista in my laptop and kept installing many sw through the morning of the end of the long weekend!
It was an amazing experience of failure and success!
I learnt very valuable inspirational lessons from the first two pages of the book!
-Suresh
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