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Today I will tell you the story of a person that enjoys 

making simple video games who we will call Edmund. So 

when Edmund was young he grew up with the classic 

Nintendo games like Contra,The legend of Zelda, and of 

course mario bros. Ever since Edmund was young he 

strived to become a game developer and make games 

of his own and let his imagination fly. When Edmund 

was young he thought it would just be oh you come up 

with ideas and make a game and its awesome but he 

soon figured that was not the case. Edmund starting 

learning basic code at the age of 10 and kept improving 

his skills all through school and collage. Edmunds game 

making start was making a simple flash game on a site 

called newgrounds called Gib a 2d puzzle game.

When Edmund made Gib it was the first huge step in 

making bigger and better games. But now Edmund had 

no ideas all he did was look how Gib was doing and look 

at the scores it would get from people.Most of the 

feedback was positive but like everything else in the 

world there will be the people that will bring you down. It 

was hard for Edmund to overcome these kinds of people 

and for most people it can bring in stress and anxity but 

Edmund never stepped down from his dream. Edmund 

still had one problem it was what to make a game about 

so he brainstormed until he thought of a idea. Edmund 

one day was playing a game called Oddworld Abes 

Oydessy witch is a 2d puzzle platformer in a strange and 

interesting world. Edmund now had the idea to release a 

game inspired by Oddworld

So Edmund was now super excited because he had a 

goal and was not sitting there doing nothing.Edmund 

worked away to his hearts content until he finally 

finished his game called The adventures in Goglin and it 

was released on PC for 10$ on August 31 2005. The 

adventures of Goglin got positive and mixed reviews 

when it came out but for the price it offered around a 5-6 

hour expeirence so it was a huge success for a game so 

small and simple. While Goglin was doing well Edmund 

had a choice either make a sequel or make a whole new 

game. Edmund decided on making new game so he could 

try something new instead of a 2d puzzle game. But 

Edmund wanted time off so for 4 years he vanished and 

Goglin was still doing well as PC gaming a things like 

Steam got more populer people found out about Goglin.

So the year is 2009 Edmund is now done his break and is 

running out of money for the lack of Goglin sales but out 

of the blue comes a website called KICKSTARTER.Now 

this website allowed Edmund to show off his game and 

have people be able to donate if interested so edmund 

first needed a idea and needed to build a prototype of his 

new game to show off. So Edmund worked for months 

until he finished a prototype for a game he called 

Spells,Magic,and Lazers or SML for short.SPML was a first 

person action game in a fantasy and cyberpunk setting 

were you quest around in a huge world and it would be a 

first person action alot differant then his last efforts.SML 

had a budget of 75,00$ that had to be reached in about 2 

months.Now KICKSTARTER can be iffy there are projects 

that are funded made and are great then projects funded 

and never made 

So Edmund was first worried if his project was gonna get 

funded and second he was worried if he could make it. 

But the first worry soon went away as after the first 

month SML was funded and had another month left to 

accept backers so Edmund was funded and could make 

more money beyond the point so there was not alot to 

worry about. So after the last month SML raised a total 

of 120,00$ and was set to release early 2011. So now 

Edmund is in a struggle for one main reason and thats 

family and friends. Edmund is working so hard he has no 

time to be with family and friends as well as they think 

that his path and choice of life was not the right one and 

they keep on discourgeing him to move forward. But 

Edmund knew in himself he was not doing nothing and so 

even though people say he should back down he never 

did. Edmund then continued SML.

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