First blog post!!!!

I attempted to make my first every video game back in roughly 8th grade using Unity. Before then I mostly stuck with making ditsy lil Scratch games so I could try to impress my classmates at the time. I was working with a group of my friends at the time and we were all very excited to begin work. However like all new game developers we maaayyy have overshot the scope of what we wanted to make by just a little bit. The core concept was that it was a multiplayer wave shooter where you could collect resources to create new weapons to fight hoards of zombies. The weapons would've also been modular meaning if you had something like a shot gun and a sniper you could 'merge' the two to get some kind of middle area between the two.

Of course inevitably we began to realize that the game was a tad bit beyond our abilities at the time and decided to instead make a mobile game. I can't remember exactly if we had high hopes for the game I do remember proudly showing the game off on my android phone to my family, friends, and teammates (I was on a hockey team at the time) like it was the coolest thing ever. Of course I understood that it really wasn't the game play itself was somewhere between the chrome dinosaur game and jet pack joyride with a couple game breaking glitches I'd abuse in my free time to get ridiculous high scores. Of course none of that mattered too much to me at the time. I had made a game! I was one step closer to my dreams of making video games for my job, a job where I would crunch ungodly amount of hours as if I was Boxer from animal farm, gritting my teeth and chanting "I must work harder"(don't ask me why the idea of crunch was so appealing to me at the time I couldn't tell you). This led me to continue my work when I could on my grandfather's slow-as-shit laptop, until eventually I could start working on a laptop of my very own. This is the part where I'd love to go on and on about all the different projects I built and how much I improved greatly with each but save for a biology assignment where I had made a short little game about being a virus fighting various cell organelles. I didn't really make any games until college, I spent most of high school getting drunk as fuck off my grandparent's alcohol and doing coding tutorials. When I got to college though I was already above what was expected of the students, this sounds like I'm some kind of genius but truthfully the community college I'm going to is fair to expect that a lot of people don't know what a unity is let alone how to use it. Besides I feel like now a days people are using Unreal instead anyway. I would too personally if I A) hadn't spend my formative years already learning Unity or B) was willing to download the Epic Games Store (it's not that bad but I got steam already)