If you want to know what I’ve been up to, it’s freaking out about the upcoming EA interview. I’ve got an on-site interview February the 24th. I made it to the second round of interviews!!!!

I’ve been playing Madden and looking up EA sites and EA twitters and EA everything and in general losing sleep and worrying and it’s been super hard to focus. I’m putting everything on hiatus until after that interview. Sorry but it’s gotta happen

Okay, we’re back on the chain. Watched the next video, it contained advice on using GIMP to make a block for our upcoming Brick Attack game. Did not actually do it; gonna rewatch it tomorrow and do the actual stuff. I gotta get to bed so I can take my interview outfit to the dry cleaners and make it look damn purdy; made it to the second tier of interviews! 😀

Jesus, guess I took off till the 18th anyway. Look at what happens when you break the chain sonny! Nothing good!

But fuck fuck fuck I gotta get back on. Finished the Gimp video today, but didn’t actually do the work. Gonna rewatch it tomorrow and actually do all the stuff.

In other news, I published my fourth video to The SPUF of Legend and I’m getting positive comments from my readers. Makes me feel very loved :3

You see, Nick? You see what happens when you break the chain? Bad things, that’s what. You keep breaking it. And it’s twice as hard to get back on.

I did a lot of useful stuff, to be fair, but none of it was Unity videos. It wasn’t even working on the video games, with was other stuff like Daily SPUF articles and SPUF of Legend videos. And now today I’ve got nude modeling and I haven’t slept because i couldnt. I laid in bed fom 3am to 11am failing to sleep and now its time for nude modeling and Im already tired and it hasnt even started 😦

I blame breaking the chain, personally. I’ll watch a video today, but i doubt ill be able to do the content. Save that for after I’ve gotten a real sleep

You think you have it bad, being girlfriendless on Valentine’s Day? Try being bisexual and single, we get that feeling when we look at anyone.

And yes, I let the day count nudge forward just so Valentine’s Day could be day 69. I’m totally an adult, you guys.

Made progress on the game, but I’m not sure if I’m okay with abandoning the Unity course till the 18th. Like, I’m making headway on Gamer 2, really, but, like…its fucking Gamer 2. Talk about a time sink. I mean sure, finishing it and throwing it up on itch.io to bolster my portfolio  would be useful but you know what would be even more useful? Doing the same shit with Unity games! Add like microtransactions and whatever I want, install Blender and GIMP and make harder faster better stronger games and put THOSE on itch.io. So I’m abandoning the hiatus as of tomorrow. I can get them both done at the same time. I mean, I’m unemployed right now. NOW is the time to get as much training as possible so I can keep it going when I have to juggle a job and real life responsibilities.

Yeah, I think it’s time to make it official; I’m taking a break from the chain. You could say I’m breaking it. But it’s really a hiatus; and I’m putting a specific deadline just to prove it. February 18th. I get exactly one week to ignore the chain. It’s a good time to do it, what with Brick Breaker starting right now. And there’s one other addendum; not only must I continue posting on this blog every day, I must also made serious legitimate headway on finishing Gamer 2 and/or Electra City so I can publish the two games. Where and how, I dunno. But they’re so close to being done, and they have so much work already put into them, I want them out and finished. I want real games I can point at as evidence that I know what I’m doing. I’m creating streams and publishing videos to the SPUF of Legend (just rerecorded my second video with commentary) and I’ve been super motivated. I’m flying through the content creation phases, its awesome. The 18th is because I legitimately think I could be done with those two games by then. So full steam ahead!

If you want to see my progress making Gamer 2, go check out the videos on my Twitch stream.

Didn’t do yesterday I admit, but in my defense I’d watched seven Blender videos the day before. Today we installed GIMP so we can use it for our future texture-creating adventures. I was gonna be a go-getter and do more but my nude modeling called needing an urgent last minute filler model, and I didn’t feel like turning down 80 bucks.

Also I’ve made a lot of progress on Gamer 1 for no fucking reason! Basically I was looking through my old games trying to find things I might want to finish and publish. Electra City is still languishing in Mute Hell, but Gamer stuck out because the controls I’d added were damn solid. I downgraded the storyline extremely so that the game is over once she leaves the city map, and I’m okay with this because it’s a portfolio-builder, doesn’t need to be long. I streamed myself making some of it on Twitch for funsies, and got an audio silence because I was playing Fallout Boy in the background. Point taken, not doing that again. Also uploaded another video to the SPUF of Legend, just getting content out everywhere. Who needs a girlfriend, right?

I’m hoping to stream again tomorrow, which means I should go to sleep right now.

I think it went really well! Really got my points across and gave some concrete examples of times I handled various problems and situations. It worked out really well. I’m going out to Panda Express tomorrow to celebrate.

Today’s video was a shameless plug for the the same instructor’s Blender course, currently on sale for $171 off, aka 24 dollars. And darn them, it worked. I’ve always wanted to know how to model and texture shit, so full steam ahead say I. Blender’s got another plus in its court, seeing as how its freely available on Steam. Anything I can get on Steam gets free points in my book.

Watched the first few videos today, dunno if I’m adding it into the Once-a-day repertoire. That might be a bit much, but you never know. Also watched the recently-released Land Before Time 14: Journey of the Brave, and was pleasantly surprised. Solid sequel-quality-sequel. I predicted that Reba MacIntyre’s character had suffered cranial damage in her backstory and her rambling stories about her idiot sister were projections of herself, somehow I was completely wrong.

I didn’t do shit other than prepare for my job interview with EA at 2pm tomorrow. Suck it.

Well…today was interesting.

Last night I was about to go to bed when I check LinkedIn and see that EA has posted a position for QA Tester. I think “hell yes I can do that”, and wrote up a cover letter and resume with Sydney’s help before I go to bed. We resolved that I would sleep on it, proofread it again in the morning and send it off if I were satisfied. Sending it to Mom before going to sleep, I take a 5-hour nap and get up at 10:30.

Morning comes and Mom calls me. She made a bunch of changes and we finally send it off. My next step was gonna be going to the HQ in person hoping to establish contact with someone, but they call me within minutes of receiving my resume and say “hey we notice you’re applying for QA but we’ve got an opening for a fulltime Site Publisher, where you’d distribute content across Facebook, Twitter, and all our associates. We think it fits your skillset better, would you be interested in applying for that?”

Um, hell to the yes I’m interested in that. So I signed an NDA so I can’t go into more detail than that, but I’ve already got a phone interview lined up for the near future and I’m way excited at how quick that was. Less than 24 hours! I might be working in the video game industry really damn soon, and in a field I’ve spent most of my spare time anyway. I’ve been writing blog posts and posting to social networks for years now, I can totally get behind this.

Watched the intro to Course 4 and cycled 20 minutes but who the hell cares, this job thing’s huge. Even if I don’t land it, it showed me that I’ve got something good, something people want to at least get a closer look at before deciding if they want to hire. Big freaking day.

Also pretty proud of this story I wrote on Reddit, doubt it’s going to take off though. I mean it follows the commands of the prompt but fuck it’s pretty damn confusing.