In two days I am finally finishing with my fuckass degree. This monday we’re going to have our very final presentations, where we will show our final projects and get graded for them. Afterwards I am free.

…Well, free is a relative term. Moved from the pan to the flame (academia to the workforce).

Still, just making games with no one to play them has been annoying. I was just stuck in the dredge of fixing bugs and working on the comments of my teachers that I really saw my game as an annoying bundle of scenes I didn’t want anything to do with after I finish this mess. However, I am yet to finish this mess, so I was scheduled to come to uni (yes, on saturday) for a “Show and Tell” kinda thing.

No one came to my Show and Tell.

But! While I was sitting around waiting for something amazing to happen, a few people organically came to look at our exposition, and played the games on display. And y’know something? When a small kid came to play my game and seemed to sincerely enjoy herself, a dumbass grin came over my face. When her dad decided to lock in for 5 minutes after they moved on to try and beat my challenge, and she later came back for another round?

It reminded me what I’m doing this for. Just to make someone else happy, even if for a brief moment.

And it felt great.