A couple of weeks ago, my latest project, Gamestar Mechanic, hit public beta -- you should go register! -- and that was as far as we could go with our funding. So it goes with many things these days.

Hence I am now out looking to rock the world of game and software dev. I'm pretty excited about the prospect, because there's neat work out there to be done. I've taken some time to clean up my home office, get my resume and portfolio updated, and am now looking.

If you know of people who might need help on a freelance, contractual, part-time, or even full-time basis, let me know! Here's what I do, for the record, since I only talk work about 85% of the time:

• Project Management / Production for Games or Software Development - I coordinate software development, including assembling a team, scheduling and setting milestone deadlines, running daily meetings (yay Agile!), tracking tasks and defects, managing clients and their expectations, and coordinating delivery.


• Quality Assurance Testing and Management - I test software, hire and coordinate testers, write good 'bug reports' and track resolution.


• Game Design - I know about good game design, user interface and interaction design, and generally making things fun for a variety of people.


• What needs doing - In every job I've been in, I've done things that never got listed under my title: coordinating the move of an office, founding new departments or teams, being the liaison with facilities.  I know that sounds like interview B.S., but it's a good catchall-- I do lots of things, even things that I haven't done before but which clearly need doing.

I have been blessed either with a string of work that I have enjoyed, or with a soft spot in my brain that makes me enjoy whatever I do.  I'm happy in the game industry, but not restricting myself to it.

And, now, I'm off for a deceptively regular afternoon - going into 'the office' once more, then off to ... gaming tonight!

My employer's non-profit sister company, the Institute of Play, is looking to install Confluence (a wiki engine, see reqs) and maybe JIRA (an issue tracker, see reqs) on their hosting account at Kattare.  From our experience with both JIRA and Confluence, this isn't a big job for a sysadmin-type-person who knows MySQL.

If you're interested, read up at the links above for requirements and either comment here or email me with when you might be able to do it and how much you'd charge.  They're a young non-profit, so this probably shouldn't be at your Full Consulting Rate ;) but they will be paying for the help.

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