SWFL SpaceCon And a New Game!

Posted on January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 by MrBalin

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 booth right next to his! Now I have till June 10th to make a video game to present! I have been wo...

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...

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...