User blog:Jamesf141/Slowly Getting Started...

"This is the beginning of something beautiful."

Right now, I like to imagine that we are planting a garden. At the moment, we are all putting in back-breaking amounts of effort to till the earth, plant the seeds, water and nurture them - and, as you might expect at this early stage in the game, not a single plant is peeping up through the soil at us. To some people, this may be discouraging - it is the main reason why so many projects die and wither away. But this early period of hard work is most definitely necessary to form a fantastic final product.

To me, that is what Oblivion Turning is - my garden. Our garden. We can spend hours planting the seeds and watering them, digging and weeding and all the other menial jobs that need to be done, and not see one thing that could be vaguelly classified as the fruits of our labours. But I love it. Just like I love the feeling of running my fingers through freshly-turned earth, so too do I love that feeling I get when I start a new page on the wiki. I know it's a long way to go before we see any kind of game put together, but I also know that what I am doing right now will not only one day make the greatest of projects, but also is pretty good fun.

In short, to those of you here at my team as well as those of you who are starting projects of your own, this is my advice. Don't just put up with the early stages of development and hope they'll be gone soon. Treasure them, enjoy them, live them. Because they're the most exciting, active, challenging part of the whole project; that alone makes them more than worth it.

-James Fox

Managing Director of Unfamiliar 15:22, June 12, 2012 (UTC)