Off On My Own

This week went by fast. I don’t know how it’s Sunday already, but I have Monday off so thankfully I don’t have to work tomorrow but get another day of rest.

I spent this week wrapping up the Unity 2D Roguelike tutorial. I got a lot of useful information out of it, and now a base game to reference for the future if I ever need to come back. I do plan on changing the game a bit, but I’m not sure what I’ll do yet. A bit of a rainy day project.

I think I’ve spent more than enough time re-learning Unity and following tutorials that it’s time to take a leap and actually start working on my own games and get some practice in. I have so many project ideas, it’s not even funny. Truly drowning in my own dreams here.

Within my job at work, after months and months of trying to find where I fit within the company and make some progress into a different position it’s finally happening. Things are being changed and I’m gradually making my way into a junior developer role within the company. It feels so nice that the CEO is working with me to help me realize my dreams and where I want to go rather than just them knowing what I want to do and then not doing anything. I’m very excited to learn alongside other actual programmers.

My next to do list is to learn Blender 3D and continue along the Creative Core pathway through Unity. Not so much for practice setting up lights and such, but just to know what everything is and not feel like a complete dumbass when these things come up. Creative Core took a bit of a backburner when I started the 2D Roguelike tutorial, but that’s okay. I bought myself a new notebook as my current one is nearly full, believe it or not. Didn’t think I’d ever fill up a notebook like that when learning on my own.

I also want to create a couple of new pages on this website. I want to create a page just to display my art in. I’ve been doing a lot of art recently, trying to do a little each day or a full piece if I have more free time or feel creative that day. The second page I want to create is a games page, that I’ll be able to post links to the games I create and my progress with them. Something to demonstrate that I can follow through with my own goals.

It feels good to finally get my dreams started.