So it's been ages (6 months!) since I really said anything, and there's really no excuse why. For the first few months of 2010 I got admittedly pretty lazy. I quit my job at EBGames for a few different reasons. I've been hunting for a good part-time job in a studio for experience. My plans to get into University were almost undone by red tape, but I got lucky in the end and made it in to start my studies in Game Design and Culture and Interactive Multimedia at Edith Cowan University in Mt Lawley.
So far? It's been going really well. Much of the stuff that I've been covering has been stuff I learned back in High School (such as making websites using HTML) but one of my favorite classes is Introductory Flash. Unlike my time at TAFE where it was fairly head-first into making games, this course has introduced us to interactive elements bit by bit, and I am quickly getting to a point of confidence with my coding that I believe I may start making games in Flash.
Which is where this comes in!
Agile has been an idea in my head for a while now. I'm not going to talk too much about it until I actually have something to show, as I just started putting stuff together for it today. I'm hoping to set off working on this by myself for a few months until I have the framework down before I start looking for help or showing what I have.
The one thing I want to remember while I make this is that it's important to still work with a team. So once I have the design and a framework down, I expect I'll start actively recruiting to get it finished or even make a team to keep doing this sort of thing into the future. I think the biggest problem with the games I've worked on so far is that 1) I didn't push to get the game finished as much as I should have. And 2) I didn't have a totally dependable team that WANTED to be there doing it.
At least with Agile, if I want to I can go it alone the whole way through. But that's not what Game Development is about. I can only benefit from other peoples experience and thoughts.
In the mean time. Stuff!
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