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 Long Time! No See? FirstSeed is no more an active seed. It has become manure for my future growth. Yes! I have ramped down my game studio and enabled my team to move out gracefully. Still in touch with my team and being part of their thought process when needed by them. Bit hard decision, Facing the reality is better than believing the fantasy. Took over one of my father's retail shops and rebranded with new name and logo "Thiruvizha Stores". So far exciting and enjoying the process of keeping a business running with aspirations to scale it up. Ups and Downs are there. Hiring, Firing, Scaling Up, Scaling Down, Debt, Suppliers support/denial,....  My Dreams may get collapsed, But I never will....

Recently heard about Cognizant's decision to lay off certain number of people. Where did we learn this "Hire and Fire" culture. Hiring actually does not work this way. Hiring means as a company/people who are managing, we are taking responsibility for a human being and the family associated with that person. If you didn't have such a plan, please do not hire someone as a full-time employee for your company. There are very unfortunate situations you can never help it. That everybody can understand. But just because of a policy change or vision re-alignment if you are going to fire people like trashing old files, then fundamentally we are wrong. I have few points for me and for you: 1) Don't hire a person with a thought that you may fire that person in future. 2) Hiring means hiring a person and his family and not just paying salary every month. 3) Think hundred times before you hire but never think about firing unless not firing the person is a threat...

Long Long ago ... so long ago I wrote blog.. After many months writing again. This time about Game Engines. While I was learning during my school/college period, I want to make games using the language features alone. I never wanted to make a game using game engine. Somewhere in my mind I felt that using game engine is an inferior activity. I wanted to be a hard core guy! As the time passes, game making becomes secondary and other tech stuffs like .net, web apps , db occupied my mindspace. When I later decided to quit my job and take up game development as my primary focus area, the first problem that came to me was Which Game Engine / No Game Engine? That time I was little experienced, so ultimately my number of years in technology told me that going for Game Engine is the right way. Then comes the problem, Which Game Engine? With the help of google, I came to know about the following game engines/frameworks. Unity, Unreal, LibGDX,GameMaker, SDL, Allegro, Mono... Whole inte...

FirstSeed is more than two and half years old now. Released three games to Google Play Store . I have a team of good individuals working with me. They are doing quite good in their jobs. Running a game studio is not a joke. But, we enjoy doing it. How much money I have made so far? 🤣 .  We are still learning many areas of game making and releasing. How much money I have invested? $$$. Without my father's support, my wife's support and my friends' support it is not possible to run a startup without making much money. We earlier focussed on mobile game development alone. Now, We have brought PC games too under our focus. We are building our next PC Game "Quest of Vidhuraa". Will be released by end of 2017. And we are having a mobile game "To My Home" to be released soon. "To My Home" is a mix of everything. A thrill and exposure to the team. So many reschedules it has met for the past two years. "YET TO BE LAUNCHED" We are y...

ஆடி ஆடி மயில் பாடி பாடி குயில் கூடி கூடி பெருங்குடி ஓடி ஓடி விளையாடி ஆடி ஆடி கொண்டாடி பாடி பாடி படி கூடி கூடி கைபிடி ஓடி ஓடி பள்ளியொடு தேடி தேடி கிழவரை சாடி சாடி கிழவியை மூடி மூடி வெட்கத்தை நெடி நெடி உயரத்தை கூறு கூறு சொந்தம் சேரு சேரு மக்கள் வீரு வீரு வீரம்கொள் இரு இரு உண்மையோடு வாடி வாடி அன்புச்செல்வமே! அறிவமுதே! நீண்டு நீண்டு வாழ்கவே! என் செல்ல மகளே! - அன்புடன் மதுரை செந்தில் என் மகள் பிறந்த நாளை முன்னிட்டு நான் கவிதை என்று எண்ணி எழுதியது.

I write occasionally. This time I would like to share about why I started game development studio FirstSeed . Many of you might wonder why this guy chose this field? I would like to add reasons for selecting game development as my core business. During my school days, I played "9999999 in 1" handheld console games. It was interesting those days. Later got an opportunity to play TV Console game. I got to play games like Mario, Contra, BaseBall, Bomberman. I loved these games to the core. This was the first time I felt so much connected to something. I got a feel of myself jumping there. Whenever I pressed Jump button, together with Mario me too jumped a little bit. So I was always finding excuses to play games. During my higher secondary education, got into PC games and played Need for Speed, Road Rash, EA Cricket. These games entertained me very well. But Age of Empires II and Red Alert 2 are no more just games during that time. They were life during those days. Actually...

If you have missed my earlier posts on this series, links are here: Part-1  ,  Part-2 Yes! I have arrived at Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore. My mind that time: "What are there? How it will be? Little afraid and skeptical" It is around 6'o clock in the morning. Myself and my cousin brother was entering Dhyanalingam campus. To enter into Dhyanalingam campus, you have to climb up few(3/4) stairs and climb down few stairs. We both climbed up the stairs and stood there. I was looking around. My cousin shooked me and told "Annae! Anga paarunga, Sadhguru varraaru (Brother! See there, Sadhguru is coming)". Yes! He walked towards us while talking with a foreigner. Bowed to him with hands together (Namaskaram)! He also did to us. When he saw me with his eyes. It is like a super sharp sword cuts you into pieces! We have passed them. But I could not resist turning back. When I turned back, I happened to see a person bowed down to his feet and crying. I could not underst...