Monthy Checkup

It's been a whopping 2 weeks since I started this blog, precisely it's also the halt of the month, which agency it's checkup time! At the halt of each month, I volition review my incomplete goals as well as stimulate upwards one's heed how I'm progressing toward becoming a Game Developer. You may recall to a greater extent than or less of the next from my Inspiration transportation service as well as I've added a few novel goals too.

SkyCop is a wide-open testbed for experimentation, precisely i time I experience to a greater extent than confident inwards my skills I volition pattern a smaller-scale game that I tin sack truly finish. I've read numerous articles stressing the importance of showing potential employers you lot tin sack do a finished product.
	Use personal projects to exam dissimilar rendering techniques as well as programming methods. Check! See the SkyCop reference above.
	Continue learning as well as locomote competent plenty to explicate pattern decisions. I've exponentially ramped upwards my reading of game evolution blogs as well as articles on major sites similar GameDev.net as well as Gamasutra. I desire to acquire to a greater extent than or less other mass or 2 to larn technical/design concepts; I've heard Game Coding Complete is a practiced reference.
	Start networking! I've started participating inwards the Game Career Guide forum; they convey a bunch of brilliant as well as friendly people willing to aid newcomers to the scene, as well as I'm hoping I volition locomote able to contribute positively to the community. I'm also learning almost dissimilar game evolution conferences as well as considering a trip to GDC adjacent twelvemonth or mayhap aid SIEGE this year.
	Play to a greater extent than games! I dear playing video games, as well as retrieve the thrill of playing multiplayer Quake 2 as well as Unreal Tournament dorsum inwards the day. It's difficult to discovery the fourth dimension these days, precisely inwards social club to empathize modern game concepts I truly should purchase a novel game. That's my rationalization, anyway ;)

Dave Ramsey, creator of Financial Peace University as well as an awesome motivational speaker, says "If you lot wanna locomote rich, you lot gotta do rich people stuff." Likewise, if you lot wanna locomote a Game Developer, you lot gotta do Game Developer stuff! I institute these testimonies of actual developers/designers working inwards the plain to locomote quite interesting. They're a practiced reminder that there's to a greater extent than than i way to suspension into the games industry, as well as I know that I tin sack do it!

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