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Hi Guys,
Was meant to head up to RTX Sydney today but the website for the event had me so confused on how to buy a Sunday pass that I gave up.
Instead I decided to give creating a characters for a skiing game I have in mind a crack.
Everyone meet Gary. Gary, meet everyone.
Gary was having a great day out on the slopes, carving tasty lines through fresh powder. That was until the mountain decided it was time to remind Gary of the awesome power of nature. Gary is now in a life or death race to out run an avalanche. Using naturally occurring moguls to steady his decent he must walk a fine line between going fast enough to not be swallowed by the raging wall of snow behind him while not going so fast that he loses all control. Add to this a mix of trees and rocks he must avoid and its not looking good for Gary.
Here are the 4 poses have for Gary at this point.
I would love to hear your feedback on Gary.
I’ll post updates of the game build as I go. The aim is to get this into both the android and iOS app stores using Admob ads to generate some revenue. Its one of my major goals for the year so it will be a good one to tick off the list.
Just for shits and giggles I took my flappy bird clone code and quickly re-skinned it using some art that a member of the Southern Highlands Video Game Developers sent to me.
Its all good learnin’
Finally got around to completing my flappy bird clone today.
Integration with google play services was trickier than it should have been but a couple hours of googling and trying things and i finally cracked the secret code. 🙂
With my first 2 game tuts complete I’m now starting to give serious thought to build my first orginal game. the goal is to have a 2d mobile game in the android store (iOS store also if i can get the hardware required) with ad revenue coming in. Not a huge amount. If I make a single cent from this first game I will call that a victory. Its mostly about learning how to go from concept to store to revenue. Exciting times ahead.
Its funny, when i’m not in a position to start building somethign new i have more ideas than i can handle, but now that its real, complete blank. Stupid brain!!
Anywho, watch this space as there will be updates coming at you.
Recently I was asked to get involved with a great initiative at our local co-working space Collab Highlands. During school holidays they are going to be running kids coding workshops.
We had our first “test run” a few months ago with a few guys from Apple there to show us how it was done and to watch and guide us through our first class.
Today was our first solo flight and it could not have been more fun. I’ve always enjoyed the mentoring side of development and this took it to a new level. Introducing kids, as young as 4, to the ideas and concepts being software development is truly inspiring. You take for granted, after a while, that anything is possible (given enough time and money), however, when one of your kids wants to build a game where a unicorn jumps from rainbow to rainbow as a game and you realize you could totally built that for them in a day is really quite special.
Definitely something I a going to proactively pursue moving forward. Already working on a game development course idea for teenagers. Watch this space…
