Posts tagged Mac OS X

Aaaand, not surprisingly, here I am again, after paid little to no attention to my blog in gods know how long. Work’s been long and tiring recently, and it’s showing no signs of letting up any time soon – I suspect it’ll be a good while before I’m able to get a good amount of work on games done. It’s rather stressful, but at the same time, calming. Maybe it’s because I don’t have time to over-think life at the moment, but who knows.

Alright, so some nice things (and some not-so-nice things) have happened recently. Firstly, I’ve left KBFail for the umpteenth time, and I have no intention of going back. I’ve also switched (again) to using my iMac, and I’m hoping to stick with it this time around – it runs WoW decently enough, and I’ve found myself playing few games recently (Before it hits your mind, though I’m likely too late as it is, it is not because of WoW. I haven’t been playing that much, either), instead opting to do research, mentally prepare for my transition, trying to be a slightly more cheerful person, and working on development.

On the note of development, I’m still in a rut. I’ve come to the conclusion that I have to firmly put my mind to some tasks and force myself to push through and to apply myself to my goals – which is definitely an improvement. I’m starting to work out again, trying to get my body into better shape (again in preparation for my transition), eating healthier, and drinking less soda on the health side of things, while I’m trying to push through my distaste for my awful programmer art and trying to at least create semi-decent placeholders to allow myself to work on projects that I’ve been wanting to work on, such as LCAR.

And that brings me to the next topic: LCAR. The project is still very much in planning, and I’m considering taking it to another level. I’m currently considering the implications of investing in an iPad for development purposes – not only would it give me a better platform on which I could create programmer art (I may suck with a pen/paper, but I’m still better with it than with a mouse), but I have a new platform to target. I’m still working it out to try to determine whether or not I think it would be a worthwhile investment, and I’ll keep you posted on that. If I do get it, I intend to get the Torque engines targetting iOS (currently only iTGB, though iTGE is being worked on), and I intend to distribute LCAR on the iPad as well as my already-determined Mac and Windows releases. I think it’ll be pretty interesting, and we’ll have to see where it goes.

And for my last topic, I am going to be attending Casual Connect in Seattle, WA next year, mostly because I really want to meet the TorquePowered team. This is gonig to be my first time going out in public as.. well, me. I got some great encouragement from Mich Perry on the Torque team, and I’m confident that I, at the very least, am not going to have rotten fruit thrown at me for being what I am. At least, not from the Torque team – I can’t vouch for the rest of Seattle (:P). If anybody else is coming, or has suggestions for places to stay, I’m all ears. Looks like, on top of my development goals, I have a lot of work to do if I’m to be comfortable going out in public, and if I want to pass.

Wish me luck!