Enter Space Log, Star date 170129: Well my best bud Jaime of Nahual Studios found and has purchased a booth at the very first SWFL SpaceCon to show off a game he has been working on for quite a while now. He's already made quite a few games already, but I think he aims to have this be the biggest one yet! It would be ill mannered of me not to promote friendly competition, so I signed up for a b...

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...

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 codin...

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 V...

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. I...

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...

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 ...

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 yo...

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.  ...

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 webcomi...