Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Let's do this.

All right.
I love projects. They're one of my favorite things to do. School and work have really taken me away from them lately, but I want to get back to them.
So, the purpose of this is to get back into that, and to revitalize the ones I've already started.
To begin with, some of my old (edit: OLD) projects, recapped:


Solidude: Day 1 - Flash Animation (completed December 24, 2006)
My foray into learning flash, and first Newgrounds submission.
I spent a long time on this sucker! Surprising given its quality, but still.
I really wish I'd continued with this, I had the next few episodes planned out in my head, and about 70% of Day 2 was actually made. But eventually school took over.


The Abyss - Flash Game (completed January 27, 2007)
After completing Solitude: Day 1, I wanted to play with ActionScript a little. So, I made this quite pointless flash... "game". Don't expect to enjoy it. It has no purpose.


Gamer Time Radio - Podcast (April 20, 2007 - October 31, 2007)
Ah, Gamer Time Radio. This was fun to make. A couple of friends and I would get together and record talking about gaming news, and what we'd been playing lately. Had some guests, an interview, a contest, website, forums, voice mail, fun stuff. Took a lot of work, it would take me about 5 hours to edit a 30 minute show, but it was awesome every time I released the episode. I couldn't wait for people to listen to it. Lasted about 6 months, and eventually people didn't enjoy recording anymore. So, I figured it wasn't worth it if we weren't having fun.


bradsproject - Social Network (November 2007 - November 2010)
This has been my largest, most complex project ever. I started with no knowledge of web programming or technologies (besides a little HTML and CSS), and ended up learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, Apache, Linux server management, long polling AJAX (which I've seen called Comet), database management, and on, and on, and ON... So many new things to learn! I got to make TONS of features! Login/registration system, forums, profiles, blogs, messaging system, photo uploading, JavaScript-based game, chat room, IM system, search system... I can not tell you how much I learned from this. I also met a lot of cool people, and made some new friends. It also got me my first college job.

Well, that's all I'll cover for now. I'll bring up some smaller projects in future posts, and maybe talk about some that I've thought of starting.
I like this.

1 comment:

Aaron Vidal said...

Aww, I enjoyed recording!