The first release of TTD is 99% ready. I plan to upload it tomorrow at yoyo, here of course, and then on my official website (which is the subject for a future blog entry for sure).

So this morning I was checking some last little fixes, and all of a sudden 20 minutes had gone by, I was fighting the bots on attack #23, and realized that I had hit F5 just to playtest, not to actually PLAY.

Then it dawned on me that this is a good sign. We make games for ourselves, and then for our friends and/or fans. Maybe with the hope of making a few bucks too, but we're not going to be quitting our day jobs anytime soon.

And I've barely been playing games since starting to program Techno Tower Defense in late May of this year. It's been an obsession to get this thing ready, and as perfect as possible.

So it seems like that's a good litmus test for any game really. Do you get caught up in playing YOUR OWN game? How long would you/could you/ should you be playing it yourself?

My wife was actually yelling at me because we were getting ready to go somewhere, and I wouldn't budge. There is a pause feature of course, but out of a total of 48 waves at that point I was on #46 and wasn't quite sure if I was going to make it. I HAD TO FINISH!!!

And I did- just barely.