Code Justin

It has been a few posts since I talked about my programming status so today I will go over my current thoughts on where I’m at with programming and my plans for the future.

I haven’t been doing much in the way of projects besides a few simple flash games and I’m currently working on a simple automatic backup program written in Java.  Most of my time programming has been spent learning the basics of socket servers/network programming.

As for college I will be holding off till the spring (at least) because I’m waiting on a decision for a grant which would pay for most of my tuition.  Besides my daily work on DZone I have nothing but free time.  I have been going over a lot of different ideas in my head over the past few weeks for a serious project.  Since I have so much free time I would like to go at a serious project, serious project meaning that it would be able to support me financially through college.

I don’t want to write down my thoughts on each idea because it would be a very large wall of text but I will briefly go over a few of the options I thought would make the most business sense overall.
(No real order)

* Children’s multiplayer virtual world/game
* Hosted Flash chat software targeted at businesses
* Board game maker – print out board games that you make with a simple editor
* Premium video programming tutorials
* Lots of simple shareware applications

Most of my ideas don’t last long because I discard them fairly quickly when I find something I don’t like.  The thing about that list is that I don’t have any real passion for any idea on it.  The few ideas I have had passion for require too many resources (art, code, time, money, ect) so I’m finding it hard to balance business with passion.

I’m still thinking every day about this and so far I have failed to come up with an idea that makes me excited.  I’m open to any advice/opinions which you can leave in the comment section below and if you would like to see what idea I settle with you can subscribe to my blog for updates.

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1. Is profit a factor for your programming projects?
2. Losing and Gaining confidence for my game idea
3. How do you monetize your free applications?
4. Thinking about trying a multiplayer flash game
5. Venturing into Flash (Actionscript 3.0) Game Development