Keep Going

I want to make games, but I no longer enjoy playing games. But I think that I could have a very good impact in the game design industry.

Business Plans!

Already, it begins. I think next month (tomorrow) will be the first day that I incorporate! Can you believe it? John Jenkins, incorporating? Of course, it's not that simple. But then again, it is.

The Tech World

I'm working really hard to make a way for myself. I know I have the potential. I see the potential. But this tech world isn't easy. You've really got to have your ducks lined up. I'm going to move forward and try to make a successful run now.

CSS3 Again

I want to learn CSS3 so that I can really put myself into the technology sphere. I had so much fun learning Python 3 last years. Now I want to go forward and make the journey with HTML5 and CSS3. It's so hard to program for me. But I really want to learn this, for my future. I can even make games with HTML5. That's amazing!

Studying Game Design

The most viewed project on my DeAr page is a game that I produced way back in 2010. I had just spent $725 on Flash Profession 5 (Yes, there is a such thing as non-streaming software. For those born on 9/11). Anyway, I made my first few games on the platform. The one that became the most popular was, ironically, the simplest. Now, today, I see the resemblance to Asteroids, but it was really not even that advanced. I had designed this really stylish graphic and all you did was push the arcade buttons, which made a green square move across the screen.

All I had to do was add in a "fire" mechanism and collision detection and I would've had a full game, really. It's going out and doing things that makes for great experiences in life. I probably never would've used Flash myself if it hadn't been for college. I really want to make game design a part of my future.

This Is Going To Work

It's like John Wooden said. "When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare." What that means for me is that I have to prepare BEFORE the opportunity comes. I am doing a whole lot of drawing now, for some reason. Maybe that will help me later on.

Perfection

I love this programming thing, but it takes FOREVER. In the future, programming will be done purely by thought.

CSS3

I've forgotten my CSS3. It's so hard to remember. I need to start studying this stuff again.

font-family: Courier;
font-size: 24
font-color: #ffefde
padding: 30px
spacing: 40px
padding-left: 10px

It's True

It's fun to try and test yourself every once and a while. I like to try to program and make new things every day. The more I try, the more I learn. It's truly amazing, if you think about it.

Let Me Try This Again

(!doctype html)
(meta-charset: "UTF-8")
(html lang = "en")
(head)
(title) Take that!
(/title)
(/head)

(body)

(nav)

(ul)
(li) (/li)
(li) (/li)
(/ul)

 (/nav)

(article)

(p) (/p)
(p) (/p)

(/article)

(footer)

(p) (/p)

(/footer)

(/body)
(/html)

Metal Gear Solid

I'm a lot like Solid Snake. I never understood why they included cigs in the game, but maybe that's not for me to judge. I never saw an element in the game that would let you kill yourself with substances (Of course, I'm lying. RTCW had the cyanide pill and Tribes had the suicide button). Anyway, that answers that question.

Games Ideas

I have a few ideas for games that I want to make. But, how to go about it? I have to work harder. Harder than my family. Harder than the competition. I need to work harder than anybody else has ever worked. That's what I have to do.

HTML5

I took an HTML5 test last year and passed with almost a hundred percent. The only issue was that I couldn't remember (HTML lang = "en"). Everything else was right. So, I would love to be an HTML phenom. That would be the truest of the true.

Flash Progamming Game

As part of Project Endeavor, the addon to my GT10K project from last year, I chose to make a game that teaches you how to program in flash. Basically, you click the button and it displays the name of certain flash game elements. It shows five elements at a time and you have to figure out how to put all five of those elements into a single Flash game. That was the first Quinkai (JohnJenkins2315 at Deviantart). But man, on a related note, I've had zero views for months now, exactly zero. I need to find a new way, or maybe not...

How To Write Better Programs

Perhaps the best idea for creating a great piece of software is to break the task down into it's smallest parts. For example: if you can make every element of a game, you can combine them all to make a...game. That was the idea behind Quinkai. First, I made one example of every game element in the book, just to prove that I could. Then, I made a game that teaches me how to add them all together randomly.

It worked really well for me. The examples are on my Deviantart page.

JohnJenkins2315

My Method

My method for coding is to try to make the entire program in one shot, without testing. If you really want to make it as a programmer, you have to be able to get it right the first time. In my desperate times, I used to try to "comment out/comment in" code line by line. But that takes forever, and may also increase errors.

Just so you know...

Last Year

Last year I was able to complete so many programming projects. Amazing it was, truly. Anything that I can do to make for a better future. But it's getting more complicated. Since Google is starting to look more "inflated," it's going to be harder to "go along to get along" or "get by for getting by."

Things need to change for me.

From What I Know

From what I know, it would be better to use machine learning than hard coding algorithms. What I mean is, that it's better to have a randomizer and a feedback loop than a printer and for loop. What I want to do is to create a new way of creating. Maybe a new way of understanding. I don't know what it's going to take. But if I focus, I can make it there.

Google Shenanigans

I go to log into Blogspot (Blogger) and I get a splash page with a "sign in" option. Wait, wasn't a Google login formerly automatic? Google sees a Anti-Trust on the horizon. At least, that's what I think.

AI Novelist

Here's what you do, you create a program that takes in a theme, and then produces an existing word that is related to that theme.

Then you move up to a sentence or phrase.

Then you increase to a paragraph.

Then a page.

Then a chapter.

Then an act.

Then you move up to an entire novel.

Then a trilogy.

Then a saga.

Then a bookshelf.

Then a library.

Then every library.

Favorite Genres

I don't play games anymore (is that even a pun?) but I do have some favorite genres. Here they are:

1. Racing Simulators
2. Fighting
3. Mass Effect/Deus Ex
4. Metroid Prime
5. Open World