Good day to you!

I hope everything is well! I recently decided to make the switch from a totally sales based job in the IT industry to a job in the Gaming Industry. A place I know many of you have thought about going, plain and simply because we are gamers! Gaming is in our DNA and we love everything about gaming, and if you’re like me, the only thing that could match gaming itself is collaborating with creative individuals to create one! Over the next year I hope to learn what it takes to join the gaming industry and learn the tools and skills needed to do so.

First I must decide what part of the game developing team I’d like to be a part of, I like to write so I think eventually I would like to be one of the authors who crafts the story. (I'm also writing a graphic Novel which I hope to publish and freely distribute by next year). For now I’m immensely interested in creating the 3D worlds that these characters inhabit as well as the characters themselves. From what little research I have done a lot of people are recommending learning C++ just to get a good foundation under me, which I have taken to heart and have started self-studying using CodeBlocks and http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/. I am going to continue research into the different parts of the development team, I have seen company’s like Blizzard have this split into categories such as: Art & Animation, Design, Engineering, Production, and Operations. Within each of these jobs get more granular and specific. I'm incredibly excited to be making this leap into an industry I've always enjoyed! This will serve as a mini introduction to my journey, which I will continue to detail daily through this blog.

There will be a lot of ups and downs and I'm sure bumps in the road along the way. But I know at the end I'll get to my goal!

Hope you enjoy the journey!