It's time!

 Sorry for the late post, but I been busy studying and situating with finances that I'm finally able to sit down and write.

So to the new stuff. My business unit at my current company is being sold and it looks like we might be able to hear something as early as next week!

May is going to look pretty busy.  I am volunteering as a Judge for the Pokemon Regionals in Los Angeles and I am now finished with the Calbright course that I'm spending half of my day studying for it. There's no trick but what I'm doing is getting a list of flash cards to print out so I can study it at home and been listening to SYS-601 videos at work and when I'm doing chores in the background. So my study load looks like:

• SYS-601 Videos
• SYS-601 Notes (Flashcards)
• SYS-601 Study Quizzes (Mobile)
• Professor Messor Study Groups Podcasts/Notes
• CertMaster PBQ and Test Exams

I have a lot of resources I can use and will utilize as much as I can before I lose access. So with this, my dev time is cut short as I will be focusing on trying to move up and pass Comptia Security+.

My current projects: (DEV work on hold until June)

• Roguelike using Python
• Pivoting mockinbird.dev for mostly game-jams and publishing my external team's projects (Hollowgrounds, gameJeeNI)
• A fan-game based on Gotham/Batman using RPG Maker MV (Something short to put on my portfolio)

Hollowgrounds and Gralina has a huge update; I been writing the story/background for Gralina which for the most part has been re-written to fit my "space mythos" but Gralina will take place 1000 years before Hollowgrounds with Gralina being a small playable RPG created using pico-8.

I'm hoping by the time I finished with Gralina, a stable version with feature heavy for Ascension will be released then and then I can focus my time on that.

While I'm pausing on the dev work, I will continue to write the stories/world-building for the games.

A quick update!

 Just wanted to let you guys know what's been going on these last few weeks + upcoming weeks as I may not blog until April.

I started my professional development again with Calbright Cyber Security training almost done. Planning on takin the Security+ Exam sometime in April! I'm going to start casually studying every night and then buckle down a week or two before.

I relogged into my Udemy and found that I have not completed a lot of the courses  I bought ranging from web dev to game development so I decided to start on Django again.

I have a lot of time in between sessions where I can focus on doing programming studying and keeping up with my hobbies. Some of the things that I would like to do after I finish these courses is finally build out the projects I want to do (That I outlined before)

So some of the stuff that I will be working on/relearning are:

• Django/Python
• Angular/Mean Stack
• Byond (Dream Maker)

I would like to rebuild my blog from scratch mainly so I can have more control over it but we will see.

Until then, keep on going!

A Long March

 Hello everyone! I'm back at relearning Python/Django and been doing a udemy course! As I mentioned before, this will help me work with Evennia a lot better/easier and will give me a leg up in Cyber Security since a lot of scripting is mostly done in Python.

After getting more comfortable with Python, I would like to learn and use pygame for game jams moving forward (with the occasional Pico8). I'm hoping to begin using python/pygame for the 2024 Version!

I'm revisiting some old notes for past projects I worked on and thinking of bringing a few back. One of them include's Cleo's Network.

I'm almost done with the Calbright program and hoping to double down on the final exam studying starting in April and finish it fully by May. It's been a long journey so far but I been learning tons of great stuff!

Hollowgrounds is still on the board, but I'm re-doing a lot of stuff in terms of story/background of the game. I have been playing a lot of retro RPGs to get a feel of how to make fun and engaging dungeons like in Chrono Trigger/Zelda

Play TSN! Community Servers will officially go live to the public (even though anyone on the discord can join) but I'm pretty excited of getting it setup and hopefully offer more soon.

February Update

 Hello everyone, been working on setting up my server now that I gotten it and have gotten a good stream of regular users playing. My electricity went up 100% though but I moved to a newer place where it's cheaper so I'm able to spare a few bucks.

Hollowgrounds is still on pause but I am doing the world building during my free time while learning BASIC and 6502 Assembly. 

The community servers will go live publicly soon so I will be able to talk about it later but I'm getting back into retro proramming as soon as I finished my course over at Calbright.

Still hoping to get into Digital Forensics in the future. 

Sorry for the the inconsistent posts but I haven't done anything worth talking about, lol.

Bought a C64 + Monitor, so I'm hoping to get my place cleaned up and start getting pictures.

If anyone has an MSX2 that they can send my way. That be great.

It's been awhile

 Sorry I been MIA! I have a lot to catch up but I spent the holidays relaxing and moving to my new apartment!

I been gearing up for what I'm going to present later this year with multiple projects that I been working on. I finished laying out my novel and hoping to begin writing that this year and finish it sometime next year or after.

My dream projects are now part of the same Mythos that share similarities but not directly related. Somewhat similar to the Ivalice Alliance. They're share some stuff but not everything. 

I might have mentioned it before but my dream projects are:

• A small Online RPG
• A MUD
• A PBBG/Web Browser RPG

I been working on the shared universe and development for Hollowgrounds will began again later this year now that I have a full blown development server!

I'm also been busy with Calbright and hoping to finish the course and aim for a Security+ Certificate this summer as well!

Also for Game Off, I finished the game and here's the link. I apologize for not doing a blog series for it but nonetheless it's available to play here: https://djknitex.itch.io/a-tale-of-three-scales

Happy New Years to all my readers. Hope to blog out to you guys soon!

GO23 - Pre Blog

 Hey guys, taking a 95% pause on HG right now to focus on Game Off 2023! I didn't get to do it last year since we did the multiplayer summer jam one but this time we are going in full force!

This year we will be learning Godot and turning this project into a text-adventure game that takes place in Space with the theme of Scales.

The game will obviously be open source and so the game will be titled: The Tales of Three Scales.

A short text-adventure game where you are finding scales... for a reason!

Anyways, this is just a pre-log so stay tuned for more blogs soon!

HG Log #6: End of October

 Hey everyone, sorry it's been awhile but I have been busy this month. I interviewed for an internal project, I returned from Sacramento from Judging Pokemon Regionals and now I'm getting some time in to work on personal projects before Game Jam November!

I was able to get some work done for Hollowgrounds. I finished the basic template map for the 2nd area and after I tidy some of this up I will begin working on the 4 quests that will be featured in the Beta that will happen later this year early next!

I am planning on building a home server cabinet so I will have a 24/7 Dev server for all my developers to use. I will also upgrade probably to 16/32 to be able to host 2 game servers such as PZ and Gmod. But my home lab post will be around here for later.

So stay tuned for a 1 week Beta and more in progress stuff! But I'm not going to leave you guys empty handed so here's a quick screenshot of what I been working on.

I don't know what to name this area just yet