Charleston Presentation

I can now start back to blogging. It has been a while since my last post but I have been so busy getting the final touches together on the game and the presentation with Leah. But now I can put it all to rest and get back to my normal duties, online mentoring and creating tutorials. I was so nervous about the presentation that I couldn't get to sleep until late last night. Coffee became my best friend today. I enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to see some new faces. I hope things went well and that our presentation was enjoyed by all. I was nervous, and what made it worse was that Leah and I were to go last (at least I thought we were last). I hope the game we created can go on to be further expanded.

On an interesting note, when we were presenting the game in the beginning, when everyone was going around checking out the games, First Lady Manchin was looking at our game and said to me, "Maybe the tourism department should have this on their website." That made me feel like we did something fantastic! Also, if I'm not mistaken when I was introduced to Fmr. Gov. Gaston Caperton, I think he recognized me by name. That made me feel great. Overall, it was a fantastic event. I had a great time.

Whoever reads this, and you were there.... thank you from the bottom of my digital heart. And Lee, the Clay Center was great, thank you sir.

Completely Unrelated

Let it be known on May 5th, 2008... I became CompTIA A+ certified. I just thought I would shout this from the roof top. Sorry for the inconvenience. That is all... carry on... stop looking at me!!! lol :P

New tutorial on the way

I am starting to make my donation game for Globaloria. I have some great ideas while working with this. I'm gonna make documentary-style tutorials on what I am doing, showing what it is like to be a programmer. I do have some great things in mind, and I hope it works out well for me.

I'm still taking requests on tutorials. Please email me at:

deering2@marshall.edu

New Resources for Globaloria

I recently received an Email from Mr. Lee Kraus asking yours truly to look over some possible new resources for students coming up these following years. I thought some of them were good for mainly reference by instructors, but then there were a few I just liked real well that shows some great aspects to game development. I put some of these links up on my del.icio.us account. Check them out and see what you think.

Man High school presentation

It was a great opportunity to see a high schools effort on their game. They had a great concept, but I just wanted to know what the reason and the story was behind the game. Great concept for the game, just needed to more.

Goal line in sight?

My class is coming down to the wire for our game. I have the rafting taken care of and I am waiting on Matt and Jerry for there part so we can slam it all together. I have found some great work arounds for what I did. I am going to make some tutorials about the Actionscript aspect of the game I believe this going to be great!

I found something....

I found something that will be really great for ideas and tutorials.
Flashperfection.com.
it seems to be what the gaming side of things can help with and that it has other wide variety of things dealing with flash. I haven't explored everything just yet but I believe this to be a great companion to any flash class or course.