A new beginning!

After a lot of introspection and assessment of my career goals, I realized that I really should be documenting my thoughts as a developer and enthusiast of video games. Blogging seemed like a possibility to me before, but I always approached it in a way that was insincere to my personality and interests. This is a medium in which I can refine my thoughts and opinions before sharing them. With each new post, I aim to shed more light on the way that I think and process the world around me.

Ever since I could remember, I’ve been fascinated by how things work. I remember dismantling old toys, remotes, keyboards, and even a car radio once. Admittedly, I had no insight (at the time) as to what components I had been looking at, but I thoroughly appreciated the intricacies nonetheless. My curiosity moved into the digital space in 2001 as I had discovered the ability to view website source code. A whole new world seemed to open up before me as I realized that the internet was a collection of such pages that were all made up of this newfound HTML language.

I correctly inferred that video games were created in a similar way to websites, but it was still very much a black box to me. I found out that there was much more to a game’s development process when I failed to access source code for Runescape in the same way as I had done for websites before it. The experience, along with many others, helped me to calibrate my focus on eventually becoming a game developer.

After receiving a primer from Full Sail on how these interactive virtual experiences were actually developed, I began thinking very differently about video games, applications, and the world in general. Objects and devices transformed into finite state machines, I began to identify systems of all types around me, and problem solving became an obsession - to a fault. I am now at a point in my life where there are so many wonderful things to talk about and I will do my best to post that which is most relevant to me (concise and verbose). This truly is a new beginning.