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Where do I start, At this time I have not much to say but this will be updated with something, more than likely the mobile game I am working on called Patrolling which is based on the web animation of the same name on my main web portal. Lets being.<\/p>\n
My venture into game design and development was green lit several years ago I would say round 2008 I can’t quite recall the moment that sparked my interest except I was getting tired of playing games and wanted to figure out how a game was developed especially when I saw so many indy product being made. My first game Bornfighters was my first attempt at making a game. At first I was initially trying to make the game with some friends but no one at the time wanted to aide, also I simply could not afford anyone I was broke as heck, so I did the next best thing I bought several books and read up on actionscript2 which was the programming language of flash8 since that Bornfighters was made in Flash. BornFighters gaged my interest into game development as I was an artist coming from an animation arena and I was really clueless and naive. Creating a game was beyond what I expected and was seriously draining both on my mental and physical state. I learnt a great deal from that production process and respect developers who work tirelessly to make games. I encourage young developers to attempt a deep dive such as that but not in the manner I did as I went deep not knowing how to swim. <\/p>\n
That initial first dive led me GDC(Game Developers Conference) which oddly enough I knew nothing about. I came across the most interesting group of people who worked on some of the amazing games that we all play. This in it’s self was what I thought I wanted to do referring to game development. Several years later I decided to move to cali this in itself was a wonderful wakeup as I came at the worst point which was 2012 when there was a mass layoff of several game and animation studios, which made it hard for a novice to step in and learn and for a studio to take that chance. This all led to discouragement and since I had more skills thank just being an animator or programmer I venture into my secondary skill that payed the bills I.T. This in itself was a blessing as I found a job that paid well where I could work half the year and stack up and simply do whatever I wanted the other half of the year. During that time I have created many small projects mostly animated pieces and most recently I shifted one of the animated pieces into the game now called Patrolling.<\/p>\n
Looking back I can truthfully say that Bornfighters was a failure, not my first but out of that failure I knew my capability and I was not as limited as I once thought. The failure was mostly due to my lack of experience in development and marketing and also because the game was still rough and needed some refinement from a seasoned developer. Many look at failure as a bad thing but I needed to fail. Much like how I failed on one of my first big animation project ARBEZ. Out of that failure I learnt so much, I became very skilled at using the tool Flash much as I am getting the hang of Game maker studio the tool I utilize for game development much as I learnt Softimage a 3d program I utilize for 3d animation.<\/p>\n
Now several years later and after doing several other things I lost interest with working with a major studio, mostly because I created my own studio to house my own production. Along the journey I have met several indy developers who are working on their own games like myself. Some have released some amazing games. All things led to this moment which I am working on my second game Patrolling the date of the write up is 12-31-2018. Stay tuned for some more fun in 2019. One indy game I followed was HYPERLIGHT DRIFTER which was in many ways the game that rekindled my game developing adventure.<\/p>\n
Another thing to add was that for my second game which is being developed in GameMaker Studio I was brought up to speed on the application by watching alot of lecturers found on Udemy namely Benjamin Anderson also called Heartbeast. I have also found many videos on youtube by many amazing lecturers along with facebook groups that if asked they will share their knowledge. Before I proceed I must plug a thank you to Kevin Jackson<\/a><\/strong> for pointing me to Udemy. Kevin was a great Collaborator who I worked with on several shorts and who has provided great inputs on my projects. He is an amazing animator\/writer\/director\/actor from my little island of Jamaica, big respect to that man. <\/p>\n