LUIISHU535'S PROFILE

Yo! How's it going, y'all? This is just meant to be a quick update for those who've been wondering what I've been up to. I'll try to keep it short. Post might look a bit sloppy because I'm tired, but I hope you can understand.

Getting straight to the point, the reason I've not been active lately is largely because of two things: stress from school and wrist problems.

After trying to make a career shift towards software dev, I've come to realize how much work it will take, especially since I lack basically all prerequisites imaginable.

At the same time, I've been having more and more problems with my wrists, which makes basic things like typing and drawing a nightmare. My wrists have limited strength each day unfortunately. Limited strength that I need to save for studying first and foremost, I'm afraid.

Coming back after about a year, it's school to see that so many people still gam mak! Keep up the good work! Make Aremen proud.

I will probably not be very active here for a while because of the things mentioned, but I look forward to get back to it once I've got things more in order.

For now, I will mostly work on behind the scenes stuff. On the other hand, I'm still trying to make some time for music every now and then. If anyone's interested in transcriptions and analyses of retro VGM like Final Fantasy, let me know!

Before I close, I'd like to apologize for being slow as a snail at responding to messages and such. I'm also sorry for the sloppy grammar.

Cheers!

So, since summer's kicking, I thought it would be nice to get a laptop so that I can work on my game-dev stuff outside. I'll mostly be doing pixel art though, using PyxelEdit and possibly Aseprite. Other activities include RMing, coding in Atom and some light composing using MuseScore.

I'd like to keep the cost under $572 if possible. Got any tips?

Thanks in advance!

I'm currently trying to learn my first language (Ruby + RGSS3) and I'm interested to hear how long it took you guys to get your first programming language down.

From what I've read on the web, it seems like it shouldn't take any longer than 2-3 months (max) for a human being to learn its first language. If the poll options don't justify your personal experience, feel free to express yourself in the comment section below.

Thanks in advance for taking your time to answer this poll!

As the title suggest, I'm aspiring to become somewhat of a Jack when it comes to game development. I'm basically wondering if any of you have any tips/tricks/experience you'd like to share.

To get a bit more specific, here's what I need to get decent at:

- Programming: I'm currently planning to learn Ruby as my first object-oriented programming language. I do have a wee bit experience, but I still suck. I know some XHTML and CSS though, but they're just markup languages, but I guess it's better than nothing.

- Pixel art: I'm probably the worst pixel artist on here, so I do understand that I've got a long way to go. To compensate this, however, I've decided to shoot for a simpler style similar to Brownie Brown (Mother 3, Professor Layton: London Life).

- Music Composing and mastering: I'd like to think that this is biggest strength out of the three. I have very little experience composing music, but I've got a decent fundamental knowledge in music theory (form, harmony, melody writing, jazz harmony, rhythm, time, fusion harmony etc.), I can transcribe a lot of stuff and read sheet music. I'm also familiar with a lot of genres. I basically feel that I just need to keep at it and study other composers. In terms of production quality, I really need to learn to use a DAW that's more powerful than MuseScore.

Should I practice these a little bit everyday or is it wiser to focus on one thing at a time? How do YOU deal with all of this stuff?

Howdy! My current main focus when it comes to gam mak is pixel art; I'm trying to get "okay" at it ASAP. So, I'm wondering if drawing with pen and paper can help me with my pixel art. I don't want to learn how to draw because I want to learn how to draw; I just want to get better at pixel art.

Is learning how to draw worth it in this instance? Or should I just stick with pixel art?