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This book began a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away. This is the second and greatly improved edition which I will keep improving and polishing with things whenever I can.

It is also epic, it measures 549 pages, over 100 memes and over 300 megabytes of entertainment.

I did not have enough cat pictures to illustrate the second edition so I am using instead screenshots of actual Video Game levels I worked on, glitches, photographs I took, boring documents I wrote and some frivolously Photoshopped memes which you can luckily skip –just swipe left. I never use images or levels I haven’t worked on myself.

Despite the lack of enough cat pictures, the book contains useful things that you can immediately use in your workflow – Tips and Tricks and Best Practices in how to develop great games, and how to get the most of your creative drive. Hard core stuff like Asset Spec Sheet templates. The Video Game Playbook gives you play-by-play on what you need to do to get your game done, as well as ideas on what to do before, during and after making your game.

Some chapters I devoted to my personal understanding of Video Games and Digital Entertainment, my experiences as a Video Game artist and how I tackled hard stuff.

The later chapters are very personal, some are lessons from my Star Wars afterlife as an artist and creator of many things, including photography, drawings, paintings, installations, animations and performance art. Some chapters towards the end contain my very own special productivity hacks which may surprise you. Don’t throw your Kindle!

I developed this book as a comic book because the pictures are as important as the words. What is amazing about digital books is that you can always make them better – their printing press is very light – just a button and the efforts of the Author.

If the universe is indeed a simulation it is probably the best video game ever. I am sure aliens fall off their chairs giggling whenever one of us falls through the world. There’s nothing you can do about it.

But there’s something you can do to play it the best you can, and I think being an artist, a creator, is the most fun way to do it. Just make sure not to fall through the cracks. Remember that The Game of Life is the best and most important video game you will ever play.

One of the best things that happened in my life was working on Star Wars. One of the greatest things that happened in my life was outgrowing my old life, and finding, growing and pushing with my own special Force.

 

 

Why 102? – the book is not 101, and there are infinite numbers between 101 and 102…

 

 

 

 

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Little girls dream of dolls, I dreamed of spaceships and aliens. I was a natural fit. I became a Star Wars artist.

The book is meant for all the underdogs, for all the weird kids and the misfits. The young and not so young adults who read strange books and ask odd questions. And who feel there’s nothing going for them, and that there’s no hope. They feel stuck and they feel rejected. But they have dreams and imagination.

I’m here to tell you there’s not only hope, but even your wildest dreams will become true and a lot more.

This book is meant to entertain and inspire. This book is for dreamers and misfits who like to do great things, and who want to live 500 years. This book is also for people who live in their heads, in science fiction books, in comets and black holes and video games.

This book will inspire you to do something in the world that not anyone else can do.

It is the anti 4-hours workweek book. It is very popular these days, and there are people proud of it, that they work 4-hour work weeks. Every cow chews for more than 4 hours a week. A woodpecker probably works more than 4 hours a week. Are you a woodpecker? Grown men want to sit by the pool. Toads sit by the pool. We are not toads. I don’t want to be a toad. I want to be the first performance artist on Mars. I have 50,000 years worth of projects in my notebooks.

By the time you finish the book – start thinking of the next 50,000 years of projects of your own. The video games, the paintings, the drawings, the art, the illustrations, the rockets you are gonna blow up in your backyard, the rovers on Jupiter that you wanna build, the space time you are gonna fold, who knows. Come up with your own job that you want to do in the world, don’t wait for someone.

I wrote the book to inspire anti-beach dreams, why would someone dream of a beach. You just get a.. ticket? Burn on your passions instead, on dreams, to create, to do. To learn and to inspire others in turn.

This is also the anti-life-hacking and anti-hackpreneur lifestyle book – man that looks bad even as a word. All the preneurs out there want to be by a beach. I was getting sick of seeing grown men sitting by pools, and sandy shores. Sand dunes are by the beach. I don’t want to be a sand dune. I wanted to give kids and young adults something else to aspire to rather than scheduling flights all over the place. Anyone can go anywhere these days – buying a plane ticket is not a profession. I want to inspire kids and young adults to come up with something of their own that they can do, and to dream of their life’s work, of great and amazing things to do rather than a lounge chair.