Making Room for Work

by bartman3010

So here I am, I've finished up another semester of college and I'm ready to start getting to work. Now, a lot of you dont really know me. Lets just put it this way; I want to get into making video games. The only real experience I've had was mucking around with some small ideas. Kind of half-assed and put together very oddly. The unfortunate thing about all this is, my first plan was to become a programmer. However with a lack of ability to do complicated math formulas and it took me several semesters to get a 'C' grade in a Texas Jr. College, I might as well as give up on that. So my only means of 'programming' are easy-to-create game programs such as Click Team's Multimedia Fusion. Now I'm trying to come up with ideas for a new game using Macromedia Flash. Part of the reason being is that its cross platform, the other being rather personal I'll probably get into if this blog thing works out for me.

So anyway, I'm pretty distracted sitting in my room for quite some time. Partially because I'm bored. Plus thats where I've been sitting for the past several months toiling away at homework among other things. Not to mention, my room also has all of this:

Thats a lot of game systems Sega's last two game consoles along with a newly acquired Playstation 2, my Wii, Xbox 360 and a DVD player I dont use that much. Plus off to the right off-camera is my dual core processor PC that I usually use for games like Team Fortress 2. I figured out a good way to help concentrate more on my little game project.

So my dad acquired from one of his friends a Pentium 4 they were getting rid of. Pretty lucky deal if you ask me. The problem was that there was really no place to put it. Until we started clearing out the back bedroom. Its mostly cleaned up, theres a few things we need to either move or get rid of. Long story short, I decided to turn it into an office, plus all the stuff I couldnt fit in my room.

It almost seems as if it defeats the purpose, but things have to go somewhere. Its all of my game systems that couldnt quite fit in my bedroom. Theres also a bookshelf thats actually full of books. Some of them strategy guides, some of them left-over cook books that was dug up as me and my dad were clearing out the room and some comic book compilations such as "Sam and Max: Surfin' the Highway." I intend to use that shelf as a way to take a break from staring at montiors and televisions all day.

Anyway, back to my computer set up. I've got scores of paper, a clipboard, several notebooks and more to help jump start the planning phase of my next game. Although I've already started drawing up some graphics for the game for the fun of it, because having ideas on a piece of paper is nowhere near as fun as helping yourself get a better visualization on what the game should look like.

Its getting late, and this blog may not be so interesting, but I'm hoping I can keep this updated to try and generate some interest. I've got other things I'd like to talk about. Such as the stack of boxes that are sitting on my desk in my bedroom. So until next time...