New Goals

Posted on February 19, 2015October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

It's a brand new year and with it brings a birthday closer to thirty. Thirty is a pretty scary acknowledgement, and want to have achieved at least a few significant marks I could boast about at a cocktail party. I have taken practice to coding a few hours every day and most of the weekend so I can get the mechanics of game making down. I finally finished Goldstone's book and am back tracking to practice and relearn earlier steps. From this I am playing with how to make the code do other thing...

Learning C# as a Beginner

Posted on November 9, 2014October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

I have had quite a lot of input from members on Twitter to which I am grateful and did some of my own research on where to start thoroughly learning C# or C sharp. I have several books but do not give me the homework to practice and retain what it is they are trying to teach me. Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials by Goldstone is a VERY great introduction to C# and Unity3d. However once you progress to much later in the book, it becomes out of date with Unity's Particle system and as GUI...

8-Bit Hall of Fame Twitch

Posted on July 22, 2014October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

Wow was that an epicly hard and long weekend piecing this together, but certainly well worth the work and more! Jaime and I convinced the owner of this store to have some kind of internet publicity and seeing how we were recently introduced to Twitch, what better way than to make it happen in HIS store! We drove all over town on a scavenger hunt for the right equipment to set this bad baby up. For two nights in a row we stayed till past midnight hooking this up to work on the gaming couch AND...

The Learning Curve

Posted on July 12, 2014October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

I must admit while there was a sea of opportunities and influences in my life, I didn't have confidence to cross them when I was younger. As we all know by now, we only regret what we didn't do. But enough of THAT noise! I want to share my voyage along the way in hopes that I can be the nudge people need to do what THEY are passionate about. I absolutely have been head over heels about webcomics since I first knew they existed, which was in high school. I even tried my own a couple times in...

I Love Comics!

Posted on July 12, 2014October 9, 2015 by MrBalin

I love to love comics! I must admit it's rarely because the story, which is not to say a few don't intrigue me. I fall in love with the line work, the coloring process, and more potently, the simple style that can draw such emotion! I try to capture that emotion in Tackonauts. There are a few artists who do Comic comics that I like, such as Teen Titans Go's Ben Bates. Atomic Robo's Scott Wegener, Sky Doll's Barbucci & Canepa, Very Near Mint's Justin Peterson, and many more (wow that's ...

This is What I Do!

Posted on July 10, 2014October 27, 2015 by MrBalin

Thanks for visiting my site! I'm aspiring to become a full fledged Video-game Developer, Cartoonist, Programmer, Author, Narrator, Youtube Host, 3d Modeler, and Steam Curator. Boy that's a lot of hats... but I love every minute I spend on it! I decided to make this site to jumpstart myself into the habit of documenting my progress and showing (FINISHING) my projects. It's certainly a longer term goal than I first expected, but it's a journey! Right guys? Turns out I can't run away from who ...