New Job and the Time Between

Hello Everyone.

I hope you all had a good past few weeks. I’ve been doing well lately. Today was my first day with Bungie and I’ve begun the training process and have already been able to meet cool people. I’m very excited to see how this job progresses and who all I meet. I will say as with any major change I’m dealing with anxiety. I’m worried about messing up and not making a good impression. However, I’m trying to counter this by reminding myself that I can do it and that it will get better. Soon enough my anxiety will calm down hopefully. I’m also hoping that I’ll be able to meet them all in person safely.

The last week I took off between my two jobs. It was nice to have that break and be able to relax a bit. I was able to paint more figures and print a lot. I also got to spend time with my friends more. I never really understood mental health days as I never felt I needed one. This last week though helped show me how helpful just taking time to relax can be. I would love to say people should try to take the time during this quarantine to relax and focus on themselves. However, I know how stressful this entire situation is and how hard it can be for people to relax. I will always say do what is best for you and your family but remember take a moment to breathe and relax. Try to forget your problems for a moment so that you can heal. It is easier said than done.

Well till next time you guys. I hope you have a good week and are staying safe. I hope to have more news for you in the future.

New Opportunities

Hello everybody,

I hope you all have had a good past few weeks and are making it through the quarantine safely. I apologize for my irregular posting schedule everything has been so wild. I do have some exciting news though. I’ve been hired by Bungie as a Contract Generalist Tester. I’m sad to leave Microsoft but I think Bungie will be a great place for me to grow and learn more. I’ll be on a team that directly makes content and I’ll be testing it. It should be a great way to learn and grow in my field.

While I love these new opportunities, they are good and bad. While I’ll be meeting and working with a lot of new people, I’ll also be leaving some people behind. I’ve added people on social media and will hopefully be able to keep in touch. This also comes at a relatively bad time due to the pandemic. I’ll be leaving my work in a bad time, but it has to be done. I can only hope we can end the quarantine safely soon. This will hopefully allow us to return to work safely soon and be in a better place to be in the office.

Well till next time you guys. I hope that you have a good week and that I have more to tell you.

Holidays and 3D Printing

Hello Everybody,

I hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas, New Years, and any other holiday you celebrate. I apologize for not posting last week but the holiday season is hectic and keeps me really busy. This holiday season was a lot of fun. I have such a large and complicated family that my last Christmas celebration was yesterday. Every year my Christmas celebrations are complicated, but it’s nice. I enjoy spending time with people and celebrating the year. I love the exchange of gifts and was excited to see that everyone seemed to love the gifts I got them. I also was excited about everything I got as well and I’m excited to start using them all. I’m also excited about this next year. I have a bunch of hobbies I’m excited to explore and learn more about. I feel good about what this year holds and what I’m going to be doing.

I also have been learning about 3D printing. This is a new hobby that I want to expand on and see what I can do with it. The process is exciting to learn and I’m growing more and more confident in the process. I’ve been slowly experimenting with different types of prints. I’m also mainly going to be using it for D&D creations, however, I’m excited to see what else I can use it for. I’ll have to get some other supplies for the things I’m printing. In the long run it will save me money and if all goes well or I learn a lot I could make money with it. My only concerns is how much electricity it eats up, but I imagine it isn’t going to be a big increase. When I moved back home there wasn’t a noticeable change I believe. I’m just excited to see how it progresses and what I can do with it

Well till next time you guys! I hope you have a good week and I’m excited to let you know what else goes on.

Waiting and Writing

Hello everybody,

I hope you guys have had a great week. This last week for me was very relaxed. I spent the majority of it working my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. I’ve also started to make stuff using DnDBeyond in order to create homebrew stuff that anyone can see and use. I’ve also been trying to adapt it based on the feedback I’ve received. The rest of my week I spent mainly testing one of the games I’m working on and researching Lua for a potential job. I’ve still got a lot to learn, but I really want to learn more about coding.

The rest of this week I spent waiting to hear more about the jobs I interviewed for. So far I’ve heard from one of the recruiters I’m working with and sadly that job turned me down, but I have another opportunity coming up soon. I’m still waiting on one of the other opportunities and should hear back soon. I’m really excited by all of this I’m also very hopeful, but I’m being realistic. Some of these jobs are a bit outside of my experience, but I’m more than confident in my ability to grow and learn. Hopefully, I was able to convey that in my interviews.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you guys have a great week and I hope to have good news next week.

22nd Birthday

Hello my friends,

I hope you guys have had a good week. My week went fairly well I spent the week doing the typical. I spent time on my job hunt, and I found a few jobs I felt I was suited for. I hope to hear from them soon enough. I worked on my side projects including planning two new ones that I’ll be starting. One of the new side projects is a project I’ll be working on with a CA from GDC. They’re a CA I’ve never actually met but another CA recommended me to them. We’ll be having our first meeting this week and I look forward to it. The project is going to be a fun little side project that should help us both. This week was also the week of my birthday.

This past year has been wild and crazy, my birthday on the other hand was mellow and simple. My dad likes to celebrate our birthday’s for a week so last Sunday we went to get my presents. We got some new games to play including a game called Mage Knight. I had been recommended Mage Knight by a close friend, so I had to get it. The game is fantastic but complicated. It is probably one f the most complicated board games I have ever played, however, once you understand it you got it and then just need to create a strategy that works for you. The other celebration we had for my birthday was a game night. My mom hosted and we had a lot of good food while playing different games. One of the games we played was Secret Hitler. It’s a really fun party game that can be pretty interesting to play and learn. I’m very happy to have such a great family.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have an awesome time and I hope to have some news for you all.

Projects New and Old

Hello everyone!

I hope you all have had a great week. For me my week went pretty well. I’ve been working on different things and keeping pretty busy. This last week I applied to some more jobs. I’m still super excited about one of the jobs I applied for and I feel like it’s Christmas Eve. I’m just waiting to see what happens. Will I be turned down? Or will I get a call back? I believe that I will get a call back though and I’m very hopeful, but if I don’t at least I have another thing to strive for. It’s all very exciting and scary still. I just want to work, my time at Full Sail kept me busy and all of this downtown is messing with me. I’m ready to be back to working I want to flex my creative muscles in a studio environment and learn new skills.

I will say I am happy to be working on projects. Currently I’ve been splitting my time between two projects. One is and old project while the other is my new one. sadly I haven’t had time to work on my side project, but I downloaded the latest version of Unity for it. These projects are exciting though. I’m pumped to see where these take me and I’m excited to have you all check them out. I can only keep expanding my portfolio and skill set.

Well till next week my friends. I’m looking forward to seeing where the future leads and I hope to give you all good news about that job soon.

Dreams

Hello my friends,

I hope you all have had a wonderful week. This week has been pretty exciting for me. I can’t say anything exciting such as getting a job happened, but I did apply to a dream job. I applied for a Game Designer position that is at a dream company of mine. This is a job I saw it and knew it was the perfect job for me. I nearly jumped out of my chair reading it. This is a job I have never wanted more in my life. I will say it made me very paranoid. I’ve been very uneasy about the whole thing and worried that I messed up parts of the application. I’m very hopeful though and I’m ready to give it my all if I get the job.

Other aspects of the past week were exciting as well. I got to play D&D with my dad and brother. That was a lot of fun as I haven’t been able to in a long time. It’s been very nice to explore a world I created with them. I’ve been watching a lot Critical Role as of late to try and figure out more ways to story tell. The Podcast/Twitch show has helped me gain a better understanding of the rules and different strategies. I’ve also been reading the different handbooks to better understand the gameplay. It’s been very exciting for me. This is helping me better understand my craft and how to create stories. I’ve been having a lot of fun making new maps and stories.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you all have a wonderful week and the our dreams continue to move forward. I hope that this week brings wonderful news and more exciting times.

LA Career Event and old friends

Hello my friends,

I hope you guys had a great week last week. My week went very well I had a lot of fun at the career networking event. I also got a chance to see a bunch of different people I hadn’t seen in a long time. I also had a lovely time exploring LA. My first day down I met up with a friend, her fiance, and a few of her friends. We went to little cafe in Hollywood and just hung out for a good hour or so. It was nice seeing them as they moved to LA before I moved back to Seattle. After that I went to my hotel to prepare for the event.

The event itself was awesome. I got to wear my new suit that was my graduation gift from my mom. When I got to the event it started off well as I saw one of my old bosses was working the event, so we chatted for a good amount of time. While walking around the event I ran into a lot of old friends from school and hung out with a close friend and his uncle for lunch. I also met a lot of new people. It was very exciting. The event was lacking in gaming companies, but I still gave my resume’s out to a bunch of cool companies. After the career fair part was a mixer. At the mixer I was able to chat with a lot of different people. I also will be working on a new side project with my close friend, and I look forward to telling you guys more about it in the future.

Well till next time my buddies. I hope you guys have an awesome week and I look forward to telling you guys all about what else is going on.

Growth and Preparations

Hello everybody,

I hope you guys have had a great week. This week has been pretty easy for me. I didn’t do much that is cause for celebration. I did, however, prepare for a trip to L.A. I’m taking tomorrow. I’ll be spending two nights down there. The reason I’m going to L.A. is because of a career event I’m attending. It’s exciting as I’ll be meeting different people and I will get a chance to reunite with some people I haven’t seen in a long time. I’m very excited for the event, I made two resumes to try and better fit the industries I’ll be meeting.

This week was also a good week for making plans and helping out CelleC and Black Banshee. I’ve been working on two different games lately. I came up with a naming system for over a hundred characters in one of our games. I also am going to be creating a new story for a different game. We decided to get rid of the original story for the game and rework it. It’ll be interesting to rebuild this story, but I’ll have to create an example first before we decide if we go with it. Either way I’m excited for it.

Well till next week you guys. I’m looking forward telling you guys all about the career event and how well it goes. Well till next time.

Bollywood & New Kittens

Hello my buddies!

I hope you guys have been having a good week. My week has been pretty relaxed. this past week I put the job hunt on hold for a moment. I instead had to focus on editing and working on the story for Tales of Mahabharata expansion. I enjoy working on it the research itself is very fun. I tend to watch Bollywood shows and read a lot for my research. Some of the old Bollywood episodes are amazing. They also have really good music. So it’s been nice to dive back into it a bit. I’ve also started making a GDD and Story Bible for a game I would like to make in my spare time. Right now the game is more than likely going to be a 2D platformer so that I can encourage myself to learn code and basic art. It should be a lot of fun!

My mom also got two kittens this past weekend. One is a boy and the other is a girl. They’re siblings so they love to play together. The boy is named Moonpie, he’s a very mellow cat. The girl is Soleil, she’s very energetic. They’re quite the pair. Moonpie loves my feet and legs for some reason so he tries to climb them or play with them whenever I sit down to eat. He’s scratched me up quite a bit. They’re cute and fun like babies, but I’m more of a dog person so it’s been interesting.

Well till next week you guys. Have a fun time and enjoy the beginning of Fall!

The Magic of BTS

Hello my buddies!

            This past week has been a unique one. I've been working in all sorts of different areas this week. I got to go into the areas of development. This has been a pretty interesting experience. I'm starting to try and figure out the best ways to go about doing dev work for RPG Maker. I'm excited to push forward and expand the skill set I can use.

            I also had BTS today. I did something different for this one. Most typically I'm a stage manager, but today I was more of a floater. I was bouncing between different areas of work either holding doors or guiding guests. I also was invited to eat lunch with the President of my school and some of the different alumni. It was really interesting to be working in these areas and interact with these different things. BTS truly is a strange and fun work place.

            Well I hope you guys have a great upcoming week! I wish you the best of luck and I'll check in with you guys next week! 

New Website!

Hello everybody!

            Welcome to my new website. I'm excited to let you peruse it and explore the different aspects of it. These past few weeks have been hectic I had spring break and then a whole lot of class work. This was in tandem with my capstone work. Today I worked BTS and got to chat with all sorts of awesome people. Yesterday and Friday, I was at the Mega Health Jam showing off the studio I work for and the different games we make. We've released a lot of games lately.

          For Spring Break, I traveled back to Seattle. It was a lot of fun to be up there and hanging out with my family. I also got to celebrate my birthday with them. It was an amazing time. Being so far away from your family and hometown can be draining. It's very revitalizing to be able to see them and do stuff with them. We played new board games, ate awesome food and went to explore new places. I'm excited to see them again in August for my graduation.

          Well till next week my friends. It is always a pleasure and I hope you all have a wonderful week!