Work at Home

In the beginning of this month, me and my wife went again to the immigration office for applying for my work permit. It’s been a looong battle between us and the German immigration office.

Unfortunately until now, I haven’t got my work permit. Even worse, the immigration decided to postpone the process until the end of this month. This means that I am not allowed to work my full time job since I have worked for 90 days. As a foreign student in Germany, you are only allowed to work for 90 days full-time job or 180 days half time job.

We have tried our best to make the next process faster but no luck. The immigration insisted that we have to wait until 30th of October in order to know whether they are going to process our document or not. And then, it might take another 2 to 3 weeks to decide whether I am going to get my work permit or not 😯

So since last week, I work at home. I am not fired but my job contract is pending until I got my work permit.

I use this opportunity as a chance for me to re-think my goal in life and whether my struggling with the immigration office is worth it.

Stay Positive

I need to focus and re-work my creative part before my next game project.

One thing that I realized that for the last 3 months, I didn’t play any video game (Except Eye Toy kinetic for sport). I was too busy working my full time job and doing the thesis. I decided to do some research of current indie games, looking for ideas. I really love this job 🙂

Now I am playing several demos from the Comicket C74 and indie games from IndieCade festival. So far, Polarity is my favorite one (screenshot above). It is a puzzle platformer game. The game is quite short (less than 20 minutes) and reminds me Megaman or Rockman. You can download the game for free from their website here.

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