Changes to Blog because ... Google

I've had to make some changes to my blog following Google, which runs Blogger, not liking the reposting of my own posts from Itch on Blogger as well.

This apparently results in a policy violation where Google thinks I've "stolen" my own posts, and considers them to be inappropriately duplicated.

As a result of this, and in an attempt to remedy this violation, I'm instead including links back to the original posts from my Itch account, rather than duplicating them here.

My overall aim in duplicating the Making the Dream Work series was to eventually transition to using this blog as my main blog for my GameDev activities.

As Google requires the information on this blog to be "unique" and for it to "add value", the Making the Dream Work blog series will now only be hosted on my Itch account, and future blog posts and series not related to my Itch games will only made on this blog.

Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.

About the Making the Dream Work Blog Series

The Making the Dream Work Blog Series is where I discuss and explain how I'm trying to go from a simple hobby developer to what will hopefully be a published, earning developer.

While there are a lot of tutorials and pieces of information on how to make a game or submit it to a platform, there seems to be little discussion around actually going from a hobby developer to turning the hobby into a career or business.  As a result, I have had to figure things out as I go, and I wanted to keep a record of the progress, and the steps I have had to take to go from being a hobby developer to getting an app onto a more marketable platform.  I'm doing this partly for posterity, but also in the hope that someone else might find the information helpful for their own aspirations.

If this idea interests you, feel free to give it read.  I'm also open to any feedback and questions.

Links to "Making the Dream Work"

Part 1 - https://itch.io/blog/987779/making-the-dream-work-part-1

Part 2 - https://itch.io/blog/1019562/making-the-dream-work-part-2

Part 3 - https://itch.io/blog/1062858/making-the-dream-work-part-3

Part 4 - https://itch.io/blog/1095061/making-the-dream-work-part-4

Part 5 - https://itch.io/blog/1101760/making-the-dream-work-part-5