Category: Mindset

  • Improving My Coding Practice

    Improving My Coding Practice

    I haven’t written anything in a while and for the last several weeks I’ve told myself that “this is the week I would finally post a new blog”. Finally, this is the week. Recently something clicked for me and I realized I want to invest time into my coding practice. “Coding practice” – what’s that?…

  • Quest Update: Coding Every Day

    Quest Update: Coding Every Day

    Why Don’t I Spend More Time Coding? A little over 3 weeks ago I started a new game dev project codenamed Dungeon Explorer. I wanted a smaller project that pushed my knowledge of Unity and allowed me to feel comfortable with my coding skills. So I downloaded Unity 2019.2 and quickly blocked out the user…

  • Motivation Is A Fickle Friend

    Motivation Is A Fickle Friend

    Waiting For Inspiration Is Not Enough Many times over the past few years I felt inspired to design a board game, to build a video game, to learn Angular, to lose weight and the list goes on. Often times I felt motivated by a movie, a book, or a TV show when my “flash of…

  • Still Sitting At the Tavern

    Still Sitting At the Tavern

    So I recently got a quest for a crazy, wild-haired troll and in the last six days I felt like I’m that reluctant character in the story that just sat at the tavern long after he should have gotten moving. Sure I did some stuff this week, but not much game dev.