I’ve been struggling with coming up with a logo design for Streaming Colour Studios lately. It’s taken up much more time that I originally thought it would. I hired a friend, and very talented graphic designer, to design a new look for the website, but I wasn’t really in the position (financially) to hire someone to do a logo for me. Without a logo, I don’t want to launch the new site design. It’s a vicious cycle.

The trouble with doing this myself is that I’m finding it hard to separate myself, as client, from myself, as designer. I keep trying new ideas. I think the one I did this morning is probably my stongest one to date, but I’ve thought that about the last four concepts I did. At any rate, it’s taking up a lot of my time that could be spent coding, but it’s important. My goal is to have it wrapped up by the end of the week and then get back to coding.

In other news, I’ve decided to take on some contract programming work. When I started the company I had aspirations of being the “struggling indie developer” who doesn’t need nothin’ from nobody. The problem is that at some point reality sets in and the idea of having a little income on the side while I continue to develop my own work becomes too appealing. It will be nice to be able to pay for things like rent and food.

The contract work will, no doubt, take up a lot of my time over the next little while, so I may not be doing quite as much work on my game as I’d originally hoped. However, the good news is that the contract should provide me with the income I need to actually continue to afford to both live and work on my own project. That’s a good thing.

Owen

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