Our Dream
written by Goran Duskic 2004-03-17


Before I even start, allow me to apologize because of small amount of games we gave you lately, but in the near future this will change.
We will try to the catch up. We have, like always plenty of games in our plans and we can't wait to share them with you and to hear your opinion. Some of them may have a small price :(( however we wouldn't like to upset you. We must ask you for some understanding because a young programmers life is very heavy. After all, we have to make a living. I think that in the last 5 years we gave enough freeware games. Time has come that we get at least a small reward for our effort throughout past and future years. Well to get something you must give something and we @ GS Team are well aware of that.
I was 300 Km away :)) because of my military obligations. As a token of my apology please accept this a little weird and philosophically oriented text. By the way the text was written during my night shift (in army) after I spoke to Edi over cell phone. I have felt incredible inspiration and in a flash I wrote the following text..

P.S. I just hope that somewhere in translation the essence would get lost. Sometimes you will maybe stay confused, but don't worry that?s not because of the translation...


OUR DREAM
Our dream was to program always has been and always will be, forever and ever. Our biggest pleasure was to make some coffee, roll up our sleeves, create a network and to fly. There is no other word to explain that feeling. When you are in a computer world and your body losses its meaning and purpose. When your brain connects with your computer, in an unexplainable way, computer with the other computer and that computer with a brain of your college.
Aren?t in that way your brains and thoughts connected as well??

THE NETWORK IS CREATED
When you are programming if you are enough open minded, you don?t have to think, you simply do what your feelings tell you to do. Some big counseling with your coworkers isn?t necessary because simply some kind of a network creates between the two or three of you... COFEE IS READY...and simply you know what that other one feels. When you connect in that way that kind of link doesn?t brake easily. She stays even after the computers get disconnected or shut down.

IF - THEN
This is the best way to describe that kind of connection. If you say something that represents that IF then the other one simply knows that THEN and creation and connection is crated.

SYSTEM ERROR
Sometimes simply comes a blockade in your head, or you don?t know how to solve a problem like your brain cant follow that pace and rhythm and simply ...stunk... like you get a brick in your head, but that also is a certain satisfaction. Fight against that blockade and a feeling of victory over that blockade, that eureka feeling when you get tingled. Like you beat the error in your body full of errors. Or when you help the other one to get the blockade out of his head.

THE CODES
In computer language - life is a code with two possible matrix explanations. Everybody has his unique code (DNA code). And if in that code is programmed your life, or how your code would react in this or that way when it reaches a certain event or when it meets another code (human). Two codes can match, don?t match, fill one another (in sense of meaning), destroy, help, fulfill, one can give meaning of another. Some codes are together stronger, some are weaker. Sometimes a very strong code gets weaker because of another code, regardless of the strength of the other code. Maybe in some way those codes can be upgraded. If this is the Matrix then our codes are simply programmed that way and we do what our codes tell us to, through sub consciousness. I just hope that I know where are our code leading us. If this is the real world than we will simply make them to take us where we want with an incredible strength of our mind. We will write our own codes to the end.
Did you understand any of this? example.
In one code it is written that he has to learn how to drive a truck. And development by organized codes tells him to drive that day at that exact road at that exact time. In the other code is written that he loves "that", he gets a job doing "that", and that same day, at that exact time at that exact road he goes to that exact job... A crash happens, a terrible crash and the one with truck kills the other one. Accident. That?s how we call it just so we wouldn?t lose time thinking about it, but in fact its all programmed through codes. Or the other version, in the real world... one takes a turn at the right time to avoid the crash, the other one is late on his work, or comes earlier, this one doesn?t like to drive the truck anymore or he went to refill, so he didn?t drive there at that time, hundreds, thousands, millions of other possibilities. Maybe in that way you saved somebody?s or your own life and you weren?t even aware of it. And maybe you even killed somebody??

AS - IF
Like us, we are hoping that if life is programmed, its programmed in a way that we want it to be, if not, we wish to program it ourselves the way we want it. Is that option to choose even possible??

TIMER - ERGO - TIME
Is simply time stopping us to stop some kind of event. Development itself of an event can happen only because time lets it to happen. Like in programming, every 10 sec send him 1 enemy, if that 10 sec don?t occur that enemy will never come. Maybe that?s what happened in our codes. There was a timer started if we make the games we made, then a certain amount of time had to passed before we could continue. Well we decide that that timer was started ...he is ending...and we are starting again to program!!

RENAME OR JUST NEW FILE
All of us at our team have a wish to change something. When we see a bad game, we have a big wish to fix it, make a much better game out of that same idea. Or simply out of our own idea create a completely new game. What has stopped us during this short time? Nobody seems to know, not even us "*the codes". Maybe at that time we weren?t simply mature enough to continue, maybe we needed a break for something to happen, maybe we needed to change a bit, if we can, maybe, maybe, maybe...

0 - 1
If you have an idea like how to make a game.. out of that idea you have to make a game. Can you make that game, that is the question. If an idea is 0, and a game is 1.To make a 1 out of a 0 you have to have that 1 in you so you can give it to 0 so she could live up and become 1. That?s like the simplest equation. Everybody has some kind of 0 in themselves, but the one that have that 1 and they know how to use it (which is even more important than just to have it) they are special. Because everybody has some kind of 1 in them, maybe they just didn?t discovered it yet. Some have them more, some less which is perfectly logical. Time allows us to make out of a 0 a 1, because if we want 0 to became a 1 some time has to pass. What time allows us we should use. Just like a computer only it has or 0 or 1 while human has the ability to have 0 and 1 at the same time. But only few of them succeed in making that 1 out of that 0. We are like that or at least we try to be like that.

? QUESTION MARK
What?s that has to do with anything, this what I wrote? first place I wrote this so you could see what kind of people are we, how we function. If till now didn?t make any sense, then I don?t know why you read this till know, or how could I explain what you were reading, why you read it or why I wrote this in the first place.

GENERATION STARS OR GS TEAM
It is always hard to create a team, different people connect in one. There are even people that get paid to do that, from a group of people they are creating teams. So called football managers and bosses of huge corporations, even in the army (maybe the best example). In the army thousands of different people from all over the country get in one place. The next thing you know, they are a team, they are like brothers and sisters. This is so strong they would give theirs life for his "teammate". To us making a team was relatively easy, relatively because nothing in fact is easy. To some something is easy, yet to another one that same thing is very hard. How can that be??...if are in fact all humans and have same qualities. When we were starting we haven?t even dreamed we would be where we are now. And yet even now we are barely known and appreciated by "world gamers". But still we made a huge step from where we were. There is still a lot of work to be done which we look forward to. We have spoken to a lot of people and we are under the impression that people love what we do and in fact, they want more! I feel we have an obligation towards those people and towards ourselves to give them what they want. We want to, we have to, and in the end we will do it. I feel that we have advanced allot, and matured, like us so have our games. But we don?t want it to stop there, we want to advance even more and make you happy with our new games.
I will try to explain why we @ GS Team love to program or why we love games at all. When you are making a game, you create, you feel creative (wonderful feeling). You create something that makes other people happy, relaxes in any kind of way. In that way you are indirectly relaxing them and making them happier, at least for a while they forget about their problems or they kill boring time or whatever. Just like us, while we are programming as a team we are relaxed and happy. Oh shit this sounded stupid, but in a funny way its just like that. When we program atmosphere is relaxed, sound of typing and monitor?s noise is interrupted only by maybe music and couple of questions when counseling is needed about something. That is simply unexplainable, you have to feel it to understand it. Maybe this is not attractive to some, but that?s us and we are like that.

THE ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR THE ONE
When we work on something, we always council one another, should we make it like this or like that, is this good, what?s wrong, could it be better. Only when everybody is agreed we move on. Rarely we do something without any of us. Its good like that, it functioned till now so I hope that we are continue doing like that. But the most important thing is that you are **satisfied**, that?s our goal.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.....?
We started as a very small team but the number is growing. We hope that the team will get bigger but we would like that the quality and the way we think would stay unchanged or improve. When we started to program we haven?t even dreamed that there will be so many of us, or that so many people would hear about us. Back then we where programming just so we could have fun in a new and different way besides just playing games. Now that has changed a bit, but we are having as much fun as back then maybe even more.

WISHES
We have different wishes, some humble, some big, some small but all reachable. I can tell you without thinking that we don?t want mansions or fancy cars or expensive clothes. We want to have as much fun as now, have enough money to make a normal living and to be even better programmers, and that we create much better games. We would like to be the best in our small country and we would that that people all over the world hear about our games and about us. All that goes a little bit slower because we don?t have enough money to make some expensive games. However we believe that we can make a game good enough so it could be famous without a big budget like some companies. Off course to do that you need more time and effort to make this happen. I think that we will do that.

END SUB
I can tell you that you haven?t heard it all from us, that from us you can expect the unexpected and you can expect from us to continue to program as long as we are allowed. We will always push harder to make better games because we are just like that. I can promise you that we will try harder to be better. If you are wondering why I haven?t written about our previous or our plans for future games (at least we got a loooot of that) Its because I would like you to write about our games, and I would like that our games speak for themselves. If you think that I wasn?t often or at all at our page and that I don?t know shit about our games, you are wrong. Believe me i know everything what?s happened past 1 year. I hope that I haven?t offended anyone with this text if I have, my deepest apology. These are just my current thoughts about some things, maybe you agree, maybe you don?t, and maybe even our codes don?t match ("the codes*"). I think that I have spoken enough in this way, its time that I talk through our games. In hope we can program something else besides games