作者：Elaine Heney

1、每个人都要有一段艰苦卓绝的过去，所以你的经历越惨越好。确保你遭遇过以下几件事中的一种或几种。被流氓开发者欺压、军事政变时被滞留国外、你坐火车时遇到自然灾难而脱轨、狗咬坏了你的硬盘、在边境安全电视节目的外景中露面、不小心把iPhone掉进马桶里……你的故事应该跟你的想象力一样丰富多彩。

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2、开始写博客。记录你的失败的经历和损失的钱，这可以安慰和鼓励其他独立开发者。

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3、每年至少带着一个与游戏开发有关的任务到一个海外国家旅行。自2011年底起，游戏开发者已经可以在所有国际航班上获得免费升级服务了。这些升级服务是由苹果和谷歌联合赞助的。当在飞机上无法使用wifi时，他们允许开发者在航班上睡觉。为了获得这种升级服务，你必须携带至少2台笔记本电脑、3部移动设备，并在登机时对空姐小声说：“我是游戏开发者，真的。”这样，你就可能被毕恭毕敬地领到头等舱。

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4、想一下你每发布一款应用做了什么事。很可能包括一些重复性的、无聊的、本可以让别人代劳的工作，所以雇其他人来帮你做或者请外包。合理利用时间，腾出时间考虑你自己的事业要如何发展，而不是一辈子给别人打工。这也是为了有时间写上述的博客。

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5、有数据表明，98.75%的开发者每天晚上的睡觉时间达不到最低建议时长。当然问题是其他1.25%的开发者正在做什么。无论如何，开发者都必须避免睡太多。74%的调查表明，你睡得越长，完成的工作越少。开发者应该远离任何形式的兴奋剂。

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6、给你的小车注满汽油，外出采风。到不知名的小村庄去，看看那里的人如何以自己的节奏生活着。坐在屋顶上，吃着冰淇淋，享受阳光。你必须有至秒36个小时的时间是无所事事、哪里也不去的。这才叫作“放假”。这是游戏开发领域的新概念，目前还处于测试阶段。

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7、Tipperary天然矿泉水是由天堂应用天使从爱尔兰北部的Tipperary的恶魔Bit山中取来的圣水瓶装而成的（游戏邦注：Tipperary天然矿泉水是创立于1986年的爱尔兰矿泉水品牌，以水质纯净闻名世界）。据证实，当开发者饮用Tipperary天然矿泉水的7天以后，其游戏的iOS和iPad应用排名上升了10位。大量“Tipperary天然矿泉水”现已销往世界各地，滋润了无数开发者干渴的喉咙，包括Queen、Pinga和Pocket Diamonds里的那些人。

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8、在很早以前，泰国的农民就认为绿咖喱具有药用价值。最近，美国的Palo Alto市的科学家提出亚洲美食能够促进认知和思维能力。按照这种逻辑，我们可以说，多吃绿咖喱再配合使用关键字优化工具appcod.es和应用推广网站appstorerankings.net，对优化关键词以拉动下载量具有显著的效果。

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9、众所周知，开发者经常离开办公桌到他们所谓的“世界”——野外去进行各种形式的训练。世界卫生组织的专家指出，缺少锻炼是我们威胁我们社会健康发展的三大因素之一。许多独立开发者已经在工作室配置了跑步机，初步结果表明，不仅开发者的身体素质掉高了，无尽奔跑类游戏也越来越多了。另外，现在苹果的复审时间是14天了。

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10、科学证实，做游戏时你感受到的快乐越多，玩家玩你的游戏感受到的乐趣也越多。所以，要享受你的工作和自由。

（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

10 Things You MUST DO to Become a Successful Games Developer

by Elaine Heney

1. Everyone needs battles stories, so the worse yours are – the better. Make sure you’ve done it all. Burnt by rogue developers, stranded in foreign countries during a military coup, derailed by natural disasters, the dog eating your hard drive, being broadcast worldwide on the Border Security TV show as your laptop is fumigated, loosing your iPhone down the toilet, etc. Your stories should run the length of your imagination.

2. Start writing a blog. Documenting your failures and money losses will offer comfort and support to other indie developers.

3. Travel to at least one foreign country per year on an app related mission. Since late 2011, app developers qualify to get free upgrades on all international flights. These upgrades are jointly sponsored by Apple and Google. They allow treasured app developers to sleep on flights when wifi is not available on board. To get upgraded, you must be carrying at least 2 laptops, 3 mobile devices and whisper the words ‘I am an app developer, so help me God’ to the stewardess when boarding. You will then be carefully placed in first class with a complimentary glass of champagne.

4. Figure out the stuff that you do every time you publish an app. Chances are it includes repetitive boring work that you can delegate, so hire someone else to do it or outsource. Get hustling and free up your time so you can focus on growing your business, instead of being employed by it. This will also allow you time to write the aforementioned blog.

5. Statistics show that 98.75% of all developers do not get the minimum recommended amount of sleep each night. Of course the question is what are the other 1.25% doing. All app developers MUST avoid sleep at all costs. 74% of surveys have shown the longer you sleep the less work you can complete. PRO developers live primarily off natural and biochemical stimulants.

6. Fill up your trusty car with petrol/gas and head out on manovres. Identify and travel to an unnamed small village of your choice, where life moves at its own speed. Sit on a wall, eat an ice cream and enjoy the sunshine. You must have nothing else to do and nowhere else to be for at least 36 hours. This is called ‘having a day off’. It is a new concept in app development, and is currently in beta mode.

7. Tipperary Natural Mineral Water is tenderly bottled in the Devils Bit Mountain range in North Tipperary by celestial app angels. Tipperary Natural Mineral Water is proven to increase iOS iPhone and iPad app rankings 10 places, for the 7 days after the liquid is consumed. Quantities of ‘TNMW’ are now shipped worldwide to hordes of thirsty developers, including those at Queen, Pinga and Pocket Diamonds.

8. The medicinal qualities of Thai Green Curry have long been celebrated in rural Thailand. Recently scientists in Palo Alto have linked consumption of the Asian delicacy with increased cognitive and mental abilities, and a significant boost in verbal reasoning. Combined with the use appcod.es and appstorerankings.net, the intake of Green Curry has been prove to have remarkable effects in keyword optomisation leading to SIGNIFICANT increases in long tail downloads.

9. From time to time is has been known for app developers to leave their desks and venture outside to what is know as ‘the world’, to undertake various forms of exercise. A lack of fitness is ranked by leading global WHO advisors as one of the 3 main threats to our increasingly metabolically challenged society. Many leading indie developers have now integrated treadmills into their app workstation and early results have shown a marked increase in both efficiency and endless runner games. As a result Apple review times are now 14 days.

10. It has been scientifically proven that the more fun you have while making apps, the more fun your users will have playing your games. So enjoy your job and the freedom of a mobile lifestyle. (source:gamasutra)