The End Of UNversity

My name is James Moore and I have just finished my honours year. 15 weeks later and its the last day of UNversity 2012. Did I succeed in what I set out to do? Well yes and no. The yes is that I managed to secure a full time job doing what I like, programming. The no is that I didnt complete any of the multiple personal projects I had planned, although most of these have good reason, and some of them I am still working on.

One of the projects(probably the most interesting) stopped due to my team member also securing a job, and I couldn't be bothered to progress on my own, since we had both put time into the planning and I would rather wait it out to see if we can ever pick up from where we had left off with it.

The other project was a port of an older project into newer OpenGL code and this is still on going and is going well. Just slowly. The main reason is that my old code was crap, and it has taken a lot of willpower to rewrite it all without wanting to punch my computer. By sticking in however I now have a pretty good framework/basic 3D engine set up that can load and render .obj models, 1st and 3rd person camera support, full GLSL shader support with phong lighting and normal mapping, particle systems, state management, texture and shader management amongst other things. So its not a total disaster and im sure in the next few weeks I will have some sort of game demo to show utilising this stuff. I am aiming at either a simple FPS or small RPG like game(basic but just showcasing my game making abilities as well as the engines). No video as of yet, as it really isnt polished enough or worth showing off tbh.

Thats really all. I know its not very exciting and I know for sure a lot of over people have done more exciting projects, but I really needed some time out at the beginning of the summer to recooperate from 4 years of Uni as well as trying to catch up with my social life and taking some time out to visit the US and look for jobs. Therefore I am just thankful that I managed to do something!

So until next year(perhaps),

James.