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...

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...