...or slaves from now on.
I'm really concerned about what's going on with today's world. Already. Think about it for a moment. "Dystopian" is already a common world describing what we're already in, and I'm hearing it - and witnessing some dramatic consequences - among youngsters. Children, too. Children.
I'm really unhappy at how abandoned we all are from nearly any institution, our friendships, superficial, our relationships, barely functional, our families, financially, emotionally, broken.
I am really heartbroken by seeing so much effort put by many developers thrown down the hole by many well known factors I see no reason to list here. Which I relate to, from a totally different walk of Life standpoint, being myself a big fan of the gaming industry as a whole, except for the glaring flaws it has consuming it year after year, more than ever.
Anyway, I'm determined to do something about it. About all of those issues, I mean - as much as I can, as far as some organized work can reach.
Last year, IICRC, I stumbled upon a thread here asking for ideas to stand out among the crowd. At the same time, I was seeing a whole subproject crumble due to lack of commitment, open laziness or our harsh reality imposing itself on some participants of this big negotiation. Game industry would be a next step: I was focusing on establishing this network of professionals and businesses so we could back up social projects as well as creating our own. Gaming has a tremendous potential for making bonds as well as generating jobs, but it's ruined because of... well, it's already exhaustively discussed how deranged the whole thing has turned, I really think a great work can be done by simply giving people what they're lacking all around: respect. Real respect.
But I want way more than that to be done.
If you are respectful, friendly, approachable, has a sense that SOMETHING must be done but already realized NO ONE is really interested in listening or giving you opportunity to make a difference, has some technical knowledge on any field concerning game creation/support/designing/programming/marketing, please step forward. If you are a lone wolf but are open to do your part, you are welcome too and will be respected in your choice by this work community.
Ideally, I'd like this group to be helpful towards each other, open to discuss real Life issues and as a team, ready ourselves to build solutions as much as we can. If the whole thing succeeds, either at this gaming project or any other project under my supervision, resources will be shared enhancing either weak link we may have, be it a person, a group or a business or project, each and every decision being made by the interested participants. It's time to put some differences apart and focus on the severe issues we all are being submitted to. It's time to have friends we can rely on, it's time to have people in relevant positions to defend our interests as families, as consumers, as victims of all sorts of abuses and if we have none, well... it's time to look no further as anyone else seems to be busy defending their own interests despite being called our bosses, our representatives, our leaders. We are losing our liberties (no, I'm not a far-right supporter), we are being crushed by a system which is clearly showing its cracks even among its big players (I'm not a "leftist", either). The gaming industry reflects both sides of this hateful coin but, with some luck and sense of urgency, it still provides us tools to fight back - at least among the number of us who will take the job of creating an alternative.
Excelsior!,
Helder.