Picked a new book

Aside from what im learning in school, i would like to do some aditional learning on the side. I have become kind of a book freak lately, so i pick up a neat book called "Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio 2.0: Learn Programming Now!". Its really cool, and it has tons of great examples. You even make your own little mini games, and then you can move it over to the xbox to test it out. Im a big fan of community games, and XNA. One of my goals is to make games for xbox lives community games. Indie games are very important, its what fuels this industry now adays. When i am done with finals, i am going to read this over my christmas break. Its gonna be great becuase i am trying to get all the expirience i can.

Under taking some projects

Well i have a couple oppertunities to get some nice hands of expirience working in a group and making some games:)

First one is through the school, Devry. It is a contest with GSP students to make a game design document, and then making a game out of it. The game doesnt need to be perfect, in fact it should be in the "Alpha" stage of development. The winning group gets a trip to San Fran to the Game Developers Conference. Awesome!

The Second is a "hobby" Project, that has nothing to do with Devry. However one of my instructers is in this group, it is in no way affiliated with Devry. I made a post saying i am interested, hopefully ill get a chance to be on this team. I'll update on this when more news comes.

Visual and Design Fundamentals with Lab

Thought id share some screens of the work i did with 3ds max in this class. Its nothing awesome. but its still decent for a beginner :) These are intended to be representations of "levels" that correspond to the game idea i had to make in the beginning of the class.

Hello! First Blog

Never thought i would ever want to make a blog, but i thought it would be cool blog my my gaming design journeys here at Devry University. Ive been going to Devry for about 3 years now, and should be graduating about a year. Its been a long journey though. Ive taken numerous C++classes, as well as C# classes. Ive learned about the gaming industry and its in's and out's. All of this has been a fun expirience, and i look forward to learning more everyday. Recently im taking a game audio and visual class that deal with using 3ds max for creating game worlds, as well as audio for games. I am also taking Game Math programming II, which deal with lots of physics and using he C++ language. I love the math class becuase i get to give life to virtual objects. My most recent Lab was where i had to use the physics formula for reflection, and useit on a ball to make it bounce off of the plane, while also it being affected by gravity.

So the purose of this blog is to share all my game creations, and C++ programming examples for all to see. I think it would be good for reference. I wont post Devry HW solutions though, since i do not want to give out answers, this blog is just mainly record my activities. Mainly just pictures.

This comming term i will finnaly be taking two classes where ill finnaly get to put my knowledge to the test, and make actual games, and mods for games. Im really looking forward to this! These are the classes that inspired this blog.