Hey everyone!
I'm a college student now. I'm living on campus with 5 other roommates at a technical university. I'm getting a degree in Computer Science. More specifically, my courses revolve around game software development. I'm going to college for game dev!! WOOT!
Anyway, things are pretty insane. My progress will be greatly fragmented. I'll probably focus on the Mine Blocks AS3 port (porting Mine Blocks will take a long time).
I'm also working on a new game! Yep! Lab Lights 2!! Here's an image announcing it:
This image isn't really showing much of what will be new. I don't want to spoil everything, but there's at least be another "player" and some cool mechanics with lasers. :3
Stay tuned! I can't wait to get this game going further. The hardest part right now is coding those 2x1 crates. Pushing them up and down stairs? So many corner cases!
Well anyway, that's about it! Obviously I've been too busy to do Ludum Dare (first time I've missed it since I started participating), but hopefully Lab Lights 2 will make up for that.
Thanks! Comment and stuff if you want - it'll help me get used to working from college. Since technically game dev is my hobby-job... jobby. Sorry, haha bye. XD
- Zanz
VicariousE
2 year or 4 year degree? Either way, hope your brain doesn't confuse Flash with what you'll be learning in the future. Hope the other roomies take their courses as seriously as you do!
Zanzlanz
It's a four year degree, if I don't take it slow XD
So I code in Flash using BitmapData, not MovieClips, and I have some experience in Java and C++/C#. My knowledge in PHP, Javascript, and HTML stuff probably aren't relevant to C programming though. Ah well. I'm excited to learn all about those fancy data streams, custom garbage collection, writing shaders, and the funky hardware stuff I don't really know anything about. Probably the hardest part of starting this stuff is learning the different types of "classes" or data structures that C uses. That confuses me like crazy!
Yes this school is much more about the academics than the "typical college experience" thing. So yes my room mates are going to be taking their classes seriously :) That's a great thing! :D
Regardless, 5 other room mates is a lot!