Sunday, May 31, 2009

Catch up.

Blogging isn’t really my forte, I have an innate ability to forget everything important I wish to write about, so I’m going to try and post more regularly with more informative topics that give an insight into what I do and what I aspire to do.

Around 3 weeks ago was the beginning of “Indie Game Jam” that was held by Planet OneTwenty. Despite really wanting to enter I didn’t, in the end I didn’t have enough time due to the fact that I was just entering our remaining 2 week sprint for Bit Game. I will defiantly join a team for the next game jam; one of my dreams is to be able to make my own games, just small ones nothing huge but none the less make indie games with my own stories, mechanics and artwork.

Currently studying my Diploma in Interactive Game Development and recently just been finishing up my tafe work for this semester, I’ve been very busy on bit game and it is coming along very well. At the moment I’m thinking a lot about what I’m going to do after my studies, whether or not to go to university or try and continue into the games industry on some level. The majority of jobs I’ve seen ask for a minimum of 4 years industry experience and I could go to university but I will still need those 4 years after finishing, but on the other hand my Tafe training will give me 1 year worth of exemption from Uni and I’m bound to make many contacts from studying there.
There’s another question in what should I specialize in, the way I see it I’ve got a few options, I could become a designer, concept artist or something I’ve been more recently looking into is becoming a pixel artist (but I’m not sure if this even qualifies as a profession). From what I hear it’s important to be a specialist in the industry and employers are not looking for jacks of all trade.
Need to make my online portfolio so I can be researched by possible employers, so a lot of my spare time is going into looking professional online.


~ Scott