Creating a Podcast

Posted on October 27, 2015March 25, 2016 by MrBalin

Creating a podcast was a promise to myself that I would be serious about pursuing ALL the goals on my bucket list. I've always wanted be a known story teller and there's no way to do that unless I tell stories. Life has a way of being vibrant and a little overwhelming at times, but that is no excuse to not grab your life by the horns and get the things you've always wanted to do done! I'm going to be honest, there has been a significant amount of deaths in my life in the past five years and it i...

Learning Autodesk Maya

Posted on October 27, 2015March 25, 2016 by MrBalin

To be quite honest, overcoming the hurtle to just jump in and learn Maya was by far the hardest so far. I think I have taken well to learning the basics of 3d modeling within Maya. Of course, I've only done a week's worth, but it has been a great learning curve. Don't fool yourself into thinking you can't or shouldn't learn a new skill, it's a blast, and it overall increased my confidence in coding as well! It'll be more rewarding seeing a REAL implementation of an object LOOK like what I am cod...

Learning C#

Posted on October 27, 2015 by MrBalin

I'm finishing a Microsoft edX certification for Intermediate C# and certainly did learn quite a bit! I really want to focus on implementing that knowledge by getting my hands dirty in the code with a few projects to boost my confidence. I decided to really sit down and accomplish two things: Create a great video game demo in Unity3d, and to write a fully independent application using C# within Visual Studio. thankfully, I can experiment with C# inside Unity as well as become motivated to pract...

MrBalin’s Podcasts

Posted on October 27, 2015 by MrBalin

I've listened to numerous stories in my life and always loved writing them. As I've grown, I have set aside that joy to work on other goals. After having a life changing experience, I know that I want to at least have had a couple good stories out there for people to listen to. So I started a Podcast! Will work on more stories when I can, but go check it out!

Standing Up To Match Our Heroes

Posted on September 20, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

Wooing over heroes is a good thing, a favorable thing. But that just isn't enough for me, I want to keep growing. I want to be a somebody! I want to have done great things in my life. It doesn't have to be BIG things, newsworthy things... I just want to have said I have done the things I wanted to do, no matter how daunting the task or busy I was. I made a webcomic because I knew I had it in me! I LOVE cartoons. I also love video games, stories, and adventures, and then I realized WHAT IS AN A...

Starting a Let’s Play!

Posted on September 20, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

Whenever I sink my teeth into a project, I never seem to understand the magnitude of how big it really is. AAAnd I innuendo'd myself, awesome. I really like playing video games, with the rare spare time I have, and want to make the most of that time by recording it to document any unforgettable moments you can never really reenact at a cocktail party, or where ever adults go to socially adult. The truth is, it would be pretty cool to get it big on Twitch or YouTube and earn some revenue to do ...

Jaime and Balin’s Podcasts

Posted on September 20, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

I'll drop the link like the hotcakes it IS! Today carried an unexpected but amazing new surprise! Jaime stopped by the house because he wanted to start doing his podcast again. This time around he wanted to try doing it with a cohost to keep the conversation alive. In this first episode (still figuring it out), we reminisce the times of our youth and what we had to do to satisfy those gaming goals and thrills! We tried having a very loose guideline till we get a grip on how the software and h...

Working on Your First Game!

Posted on September 14, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

It's a nightmare and scary and omg I have failed more times than I like. BUT I LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT. I have worked on NUMEROUS game dev tutorials and unfortunately quite a few games I started on my own. It seemed like with each of the games I tried to make on my own, I had the vision, the basic programming knowledge or at least where to find the answer, and even a good floor plan with what I wanted to do in small attainable goals. I got as far as the first level programmed before I would bur...

Loving Unity!!

Posted on April 7, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

STATUS UPDATE! I've been using Unity for a while now and love it! I prefer C sharp for it is a strongly typed language, but if you're into Javascript, checking out codecademy is a MUST! If you want to learn more about C#, Ed2Go has two online classes. I've taken the beginner certification course and learned quite a bit more than I thought! Not as much opportunity to talk with your course mates. If you want to get your hands dirty with Unity, try downloading the v4.6 and buying Goldstone's Unity...

Certification in Beginning C Sharp

Posted on March 27, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

WooHOO! I finished my online course to be rewarded with a certification! It clearly states "C# for the Absolute Beginner", but it's a step and a certification in something! I knew a good portion already from studying Goldstone's book, but did things ever change about half way in. I still need to practice a few things to memory, like: loops, lists, arrays, classes and constructors, using external files, and GUI! That does seem a lot to work on now that I type it all out, but baby steps are stil...