yes I am. No. Seriously.
In case you were wondering what the hell it is that I’m doing that urged me to move to some unknown town in Texas and enroll in an arduous game development program, here’s the trailer for my first “big” project, a 2D game using TorqueX 2D platformer dev kit:
(If you can’t see the YouTube video here, press the “Read More” link at the bottom of the post. Also, if you want to see a MUCH better version, go to the original YouTube page and select the “Watch in High Quality” option).
I was part of a 4 man team. I was the only artist, so I made almost all the art assets and animations from scratch. The whole thing was hammered out in about 6-7 weeks. It was extremely hard work, especially having to cope with stuff like projects from other classes (the whole game was part of a single class), the addition of our fourth member near the end of the project, near addiction to energy drinks, and completely abandoning the notion of getting more than 4 hours of sleep or less every weekday. I’m surprised my dear ol’ boyfriend put up with all this shit. But he survived. Mostly on his (not very) secret porn stash. I couldn’t even afford getting laid or popping one off on a weekday or else I’d be so spent and zombie-like throughout the whole day and my productivity would suffer.
And I haven’t even touched 3D yet. Holy shit. I fear for my sanity for the next class module.
I did all the animations in Photoshop and used my Cintiq tablet to draw everything, which helped immensely with the extremely constricted and ridiculous deadline we had. You know what’s even funnier? We’ll have probably the same amount of time to do A FUCKING 3D GAME next term.
But I’m not worried. I’ve been through tougher stuff. the only difference with my previous educational endeavors is that they didn’t inspire me to do shit. This thing gives me a sort of accomplishment and satisfaction that borders on the sexual.
*rubs nipples* Mmmmm polygons… HDR lighting… Bloom reflection… Oh gawd– *splurt*
Ahem!
That is definitely not the only thing I’ve done in the program. Those other projects that got in the way of my 2D game? yeah, those were tough cookies too. I’d show them to you, but that would mean firing up 3Ds Max, rendering, and saving screenshots and I’m too tired and lazy to do that now. So That’s gonna be for next time. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to my feed at the bottom of the page if you wanna get a heads-up.
Anyway, that’s all I have to show for now. I start classes in about 2 weeks and our professor, bless his evil soul, didn’t officially give us homework, but “highly urged” us to work on stuff during the break. The way he said it made us imagine horrible things that would happen if we …Keep Reading.
