Re-evaluating.

3/20/2016 Edit: I think we can disregard the entirety of this 're-evaluation' as I didn't follow through on it at all and continued working on my mod. Whoops.

This blog is doing a fantastic job holding me accountable for my progress, or lack there of.

Let me level with you here, my goal is to make games that I am proud of and are worth playing. I want to work at those few dream companies and make the best games I can with the best people in the industry. But I know in order to do that, I need the talent and the skill to get to those companies. I want to be able to program the game, build models, and animate. Be able to create the worlds and lore to be immersed in.

So how do I plan on accomplishing this. Mainly, I'm working towards a Computer Engineering Degree with a Computer Science minor. This is taking up almost all my time, my free time, and stress. It's not as fast or specific as I'd like it to be, but hopefully that will be changing when I make it to the ladder years of the program. This should give me all of the programmer skills I need to get myself started in the industry.

What about outside of school. Well that's what this blog is for, holding me accountable to get work done in my free time. Unfortunately, what little free time I have goes to relaxing to maintain my mental sanity. Ideally, I want to start with Codecademy and learn programming. Do Blender tutorials to learn modeling and animation, and then start making mods with Source and videos with Source Filmmaker. Eventually moving to Unity to make games, but as I said, Free time eludes me.

So, now we reevaluate. I've been thinking of different ways to make use of my free time and learning the things I want to learn. What I think I'll do is which to a month by month schedule where for one month, about 4 blog posts, I work on something specific. Spend a month coding, a month in blender ect. I could do this on a week by week basis, but as these last two weeks have shown, there isn't much progress I can make depending on the time of year and where my school is.

For the rest of this month, I'll focus my time on Codecademy as I've already started the Java course. Why Java? Well I'll get to that later.