New years resolution

First, I would like to mention what I have learned since starting this blog. It seems that I have fallen for the mistake that makes many people fail at game development: Being too ambitious.

Apparently, having 2 years of Computer science in highschool doesn't qualify a person to be able to make games. General programming knowledge is not enough for this field. You must study A LOT before you can make polished games with little bugs. I am glad I learned this sooner, rather than a year from now, or I may have quit trying.


Now then, for my new years resolution(Things I hope to get done before the end of the year, more idealistic than realistic):*

-Complete at least 1 of each project:
--A polished java app.
--A polished flash app.
--A Jedi Academy mod, wrapped up and published(I play Jedi Academy, BTW).
--A website hosting all of my polished projects. My goal here is to start building a resumé for SMU.

*I often find that making lists helps organize things to get done. Now if only I weren't so darn lazy!

Baby steps.

After fleshing out the details of my robot game, I have come to realize that this is a rather ambitious project for a noob, so I am taking baby steps. First I will reformat the Tic Tac Toe engine in order to make it more universal, then I will make several projects just to gain practice. After which I will begin making my robot game.

I think I am talking to myself now, so I will withdraw posting here until I can get more followers.

Robots

We r gunna makin' robots that are gunna blow up stuff*makes sure Robotics teacher isn't looking*. Not really, sort of. I'M making a robot that's going to blow stuff up(Maybe), my robotics CLASS is making a robot for a contest. Guess who is one of the programmers.

Let's talk about the latter, first. Our class is participating in a robotics contest held by an organization named "BEST", ours is the Dallas branch. More information at Dallas-best.org. I am going to be learning C programming in order to do this. I already know basic c++ so the conversion shouldn't be too hard.


Now for the former, I just thought of a vague idea for a game, about robots( =]) I don't know much about it(I just know it will be about robots), but it will implement my tic tac toe engine(It will NOT be a tic tac toe clone with robots. XD)


That is all, for now.