Working on Growtopia mostly. \u00a0Despite Growtopia being nearly two years old now it has just had its\u00a0most profitable month!<\/p>\n
Some stats:<\/p>\n
Total user accounts: 5.6 million
\nTotal worlds created: 95 million
\nDaily unique users: 337,000
\nDaily hours played: 550,000
\nDaily peak concurrent users: ~40,000<\/p>\n
As a self employed developer I’ve learned that when\u00a0something does well, you focus on it and ride the money train while you can because it won’t last. You bank the extra to tide you over when things get slow. \u00a0Success dictates where you spend time because you’d be a big idiot not to. \u00a0Something like that.<\/p>\n
This is why I worked on Legend Of The Dragon (off and on) for seven years. \u00a0As the BBS era came to a close, so did my updates.<\/p>\n
Maintaining Growtopia is now less about programming\/creating for me and more about isolating problems, fixing bugs, monitoring servers, answering the hardest support questions, scanning logs, putting out fires, figuring out why we’re having dropped packets, which incidentally, we are currently having an issue with. \u00a0Maybe a bad router, man I hate when it’s hardware.<\/p>\n
Can I do this and still have the “emotional energy” to make something new (part time)? \u00a0To actually program again? \u00a0Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What I’ve been up to Working on Growtopia mostly. \u00a0Despite Growtopia being nearly two years old now it has just had its\u00a0most profitable month! Some stats: Total user accounts: 5.6 million Total worlds created: 95 million Daily unique users: 337,000 Daily hours played: 550,000 Daily peak concurrent users: ~40,000 Sadly, that’s pretty much all I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-growtopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}