Posts Tagged ‘School’

So you want to be a game designer? article on GameSpot.

// July 22nd, 2005 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

This is great to see. I loved reading it. Game design in a nutshell by some of the industries best know game designers.

The artist emerges?

// July 19th, 2005 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Okay, so programming is and has been very interesting to me, but I am truly intrigued by the art side of game development also. I’m at a crossroad, I guess. I have never been an artist by any definition of the word, but I really like the idea of being able to put my thoughts on paper for others to see. This brings me to the design aspect. From what I understand, which is not much in the perspective of the world, game designers need to understand a little of both of these areas, but is not excellent in either. I know that some good programmers may have designed good games, and maybe even a good artist has done the same, though I know of none, so there is always an exception. Games in the past have been a lot about the programmers, and that’s not always a good thing. Neither one can do it alone, so in comes the designer to hold the idea together and keep each team progressing. I think that’s me. Being unemployed now, I have a lot of spare time and I would really like to get my art skills to be something I can use for storyboard type of pre-viz work, but I would also like to know enough about the programming to get a game together also. I’ve talked to a lot of professionals, and they all say that you can’t be a master of both because they both take years of practice to master. I want to be the exception. I want to be a master game designer, and that means learning both sides of the biz. That’s my dream anyway. My biggest problem is being lazy. I once heard a man say that laziness is the sister of talent. I hope that’s true, and I hope I can overcome my laziness to become great. You may ask what happens if I don’t get it together, I’ll tell you. NOTHING!! Absolutely nothing. Will happen and that’s what I need to avoid unless I want to make a habit of saying “Would you like to super-size that?” Not my idea of greatness.

I think I like to blog

// January 11th, 2005 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I think it’s time for a new post. Now that I have got one picture up, I have been trying to put something like a pic album. I love pictures and once I get a camera phone a MoBlog would be fun.

I am no longer in the group working on that game. I have just begun learning DirectX this quarter, and my art is not great. I love working on 3D models though. It’s like virtual clay. They decided that they wanted to get a little more serious, and I could not keep up with everything else I have going on now. One of the members suggested I drop out of the group and I honorably bowed out. “Thank you, Master, for your direction.” Anyway, it gives me more time to worry about other things I need to do. I have been seeing these groups popping up all over school and I could get in one or start my own in the future. I think I would like to try a solo project or two first. Some small side-scroller or a Tetris variation maybe. Just for experience.

Try, try, try

// September 17th, 2004 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I took my final in my first 3DS Max class. I have to draw my ass off now for my drawing final. I still have the same problems with studing. I’m really trying.