Update stuff & Halloween
11 years ago
General
Welp. Time for the annual journal. Like literally, the last update was halloween =D
Anyway, lo~t's of stuff's happened. Two years ago I moved to a pretty small town and took a year long course in game programming. Various stuff, C++, C#, java etc. All kinds of things! At the start of 2014 I moved again to a nearby bigger city in the hopes of finding some work.
Unity has proven itself a very nice tool for quickly setting up projects and works great for both 3D and (lately)2D stuff. That's why I've been messing around with it for the past year on my own =P Hopefully something comes out of it that I can share with you guys.
I sincerely recommend Unity for anyone interested in game development because I think the quick results have potential to further motivate in studying programming in general. Don't care about the bias towards the software because of endless Slender man copies, it's just a tool and you decide what to make with it =P
My big thanks to all new watchers! I know I haven't been very active lately, but I try to hang around and submit stuff every now and then =j
Hope you all have a happy Halloween guys!
Anyway, lo~t's of stuff's happened. Two years ago I moved to a pretty small town and took a year long course in game programming. Various stuff, C++, C#, java etc. All kinds of things! At the start of 2014 I moved again to a nearby bigger city in the hopes of finding some work.
Unity has proven itself a very nice tool for quickly setting up projects and works great for both 3D and (lately)2D stuff. That's why I've been messing around with it for the past year on my own =P Hopefully something comes out of it that I can share with you guys.
I sincerely recommend Unity for anyone interested in game development because I think the quick results have potential to further motivate in studying programming in general. Don't care about the bias towards the software because of endless Slender man copies, it's just a tool and you decide what to make with it =P
My big thanks to all new watchers! I know I haven't been very active lately, but I try to hang around and submit stuff every now and then =j
Hope you all have a happy Halloween guys!
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Of course there are smart non-Unity developers out there with similar ideal setups convenience-wise; in fact there are more and more getting into this business (or more of "getting more public" instead of staying "hidden").
I remember actually having a chance to applicate for video-game making in my area. But then I found out that I'd have to either Engineer Diploma, Master of Philosophy, or a equivalent degree of education; in the end I wasn't able to apply for this, of course, since I "only" two vocational educations and senior high school completed (not matriculated / gotten the white-cap, however). This was by the way the very basics according to schedule, probably similar to what you did attend to coding and such-wise, only that the minimum degree-requirements were far more ludicrous than I've seen many similar educations held in various places (worldwide, that is).
Granted, coding languages itself tend to become quite mush to me (similar to to any other symbol-alphabets). So probably only works I would have been fit to would have been producer/overseeing jobs in general in the end. That's not to say I wouldn't know the basics at least, like making algorithms and such (heck, in 9th-grade, i did some small coding with TurboPascal during programming/coding-classes; wasn't skilled enough to make that "RAY"-poker-game, however...).
Still, don't get discouraged if you end up into a "NEET"-life as many of us currently are (aside of course keep looking for possible job-openings, of course). The fact indeed is that at the moment and still quite far into future the trend is simply to "sell none". But if you're lucky enough, in a away or another you're still able to upkeep your skills so then they won't get completely rusted: I personally have been helping locals just for the sake helping "in the middle of the triangle of nowhere", since I'm almost literally stuck here (very infrequent, if existing at all buses and not shred of chance of getting own automobile),but frankly speaking, it couldn't be better to me at the moment.
In the end though for both us; While there's a chance we might be "officially" ever get hired, there is a chance we're being forced to be employed, since no matter how many might say against so: Work never ends.