Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is quickly becoming one of the most popular games in the world.  It has already surpassed long standing giants of the game industry in terms of concurrent players online at once, viewers of live streams, and has sold over 10 million copies of the game since it was first released in March of this year. The game has had over 1.5 million concurrent players online at once, breaking its own records again and again after surpassing the next giant, Dota 2 (over 1.2 million,) and the legend that is Counter Strike: Global Offensive (over 850 thousand.) PUBG (pub-jee as the players lovingly refer to it,) started out as a mod for the tactical mil-sim (military simulation) Arma III under the name Playerunknown’s Battle Royale, and then developer Bluehole Studio approached creator Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene to create the standalone bloodbath we see today. From the moment you choose to drop out of the cargo plane holding 99 other lunatics, it is an adventure of looting, sprinting to keep yourself in the ever shrinking playzone, intense firefights, and if you’re lucky, after a final heart-pounding shootout with your final opponent you’ll be the winner winner with the chicken dinner. This game has inspired me to work ever harder on  projects that I currently have going, as it shows that even something as small as a mod for another existing game can turn into something really special.

After recording my going’s on for a week, I realize I have a busy schedule. I have a lot of work to do throughout, while also trying to maintain a healthy social life and body. I may have problems with time management every once in a while, but the last few years of college have taught me how to succeed under pressure.

This is the title screen on the game I helped build last year called Shakespeare Dog, featuring a dog that learns English by reading Shakespeare, and the dog eventually goes off to become the champion of Shakespeare. I did much of the in game artwork found, including enemies, and a level’s play field artwork.

The main point of these two articles is to draw the similarities between artists and entrepreneurs to light, and how each can learn from each other. Artists should be able to learn from the business and organizational skills of entrepreneurs, who can also learn better flexibility from the artists. I do not believe all artists are entrepreneurs, they do have similar qualities; however, a good entrepreneur also shares qualities with athletes and soldiers, including tenacity and the ability to work well on a team. I agree that artists are “neophiles” mist of the artists I know are continually trying new things. I would add that artists and entrepreneurs both need technical skills.

I apparently have grit, I scored a 4.38 overall, but there is still room for improvement. I could start by organizing thoughts, ideas and projects better into smaller, more manageable pieces.