The Beginning...

Never had a blog before or anything like this but I have felt the need to have a way to track my career and learning process. I am currently a student at Umass Dartmouth and my major is Computer Science. My goal upon graduation is to work in the field of game development. I love all aspects of game development and am still at the point where I want to try and see which part i would like to work with. I feel at this point that the Design aspect may be what i would enjoy the most but i plan on learning much more of the programming aspect as well as the art side. In fact this semester I have decided that the best thing for my career would be to take some art classes so that I could truly understand all aspects of the industry. This semester I will be taking a Computer Graphics programming class as well as Digital Media 3 which is a 2d animation class. My last semester I also had a game design class where I was part of a group where we developed a 2d game as well as a 3d game. We used the Torque game engine for the 2d game and i really enjoyed the storyboarding/design document/creative aspect of the class and I plan on doing much more in the future in those aspects. I also plan on posting any material that I have done and will do in the future so I am able to keep track of my progress. My short term goal would be to try and get an internship in the game industry next summer so I plan on working hard in school and trying to learn as much as I can so that I can try to have atleast something of value to show some potential to the game companies in my area so that I could attain an internship because I truly feel that would be extremely beneficial for my future. Being my first post this one has been large but Im hoping to keep consistent tabs on my progress as well as any work I do in the future. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with this and it could become a very nice way of seeing my progress