Well, the secret is out, I took a fulltime job at a mobile game developer called Wizcorp, here in Tokyo. My official job title is UX designer, however I am on the design team and do a lot of other things besides. This may change in the future as the company changes, or as projects change, but I’m happy to be working in a dynamic company with a team of intelligent people. Wizcorp builds apps for iOS and mobile using it’s own technologies.
My personal apps are somewhat in limbo now and I certainly don’t have the energy for freelance projects. I plan to work mostly on R&D in my free time, as any sole developer; I had a lot of prototypes on the boil.
Prototyping, R&D and user interaction are really what interest me about game development, in my new role I develop the wireframes and interaction flow of apps, in a team of developers and artists. In my free time I mess around with ideas that I can build quickly and alone in Unity or Titanium, this suits me just fine.
Is this the death-knoll for my carrer in web design? I’ve been trying to kill it off for the past few years, after working with the web on and off for my entire adult life. However after an internship at the age of 16 making games, it could be said I started out in games, a long time coming but I have travelled full circle back to what I love once again.