I got an email from a customer who purchased my first indie game Rocknor’s Bad Day from the now-defunct games site Dexterity.com, whom which I had a distribution agreement. She wanted to re-download the full version of the game, because she had lost it. The agreement I had with Dexterity stipulated, as usual, that they got to keep all the sales records, meaning I had no way to tell if she was a legit customer. But I decided to give her a free copy anyway.

Here’s a snippet of what she had to say the next day:

Thank you so much for your prompt response. I can’t thank you enough for your generosity. My son will be delighted! He has Autism and gets obsessed with things for months at a time. He will play the one game for months and then move on to another. Then he will often return to a game he was obsessed with previously. Its so long since we played Rocknor I honestly couldn’t remember when we bought it. Thus far i have managed to keep him away from most of the awful games that consist of killing things.He will be so excited! Actually the whole family enjoys Rocknor and its so nice to have the kids playing something that makes them think instead of just pushing a button.

Once again my many many thanks. You have made one little boy very very happy.

When I hear firsthand how someone is enjoying something I made, it makes it very hard to think of doing anything else as a career or hobby.

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