Blogs

I’m back at it again and hopefully I’ll be more active. At least once a month! Anyways a quick update going into this new year is that I’m finally up in Silicon Valley. I’ve always wanted to live here for the longest time and it feels so surreal haha. Maybe I’ll start vlogging again. I’m currently liking my new job and I have taken the time to re-learn Go (the game) and picking up backgammon.

Nothing too huge but I’m putting together a team with some of the folks over at mockinbird.dev to compete in our next Game Jam this fall! https://itch.io/jam/back-to-school-multiplayer-game-jam-2022 Some of our teammates have experience with Unity but not with Photon so this will be interesting. I’ll most likely be taking over creative design and initial code as I am also learning C#/Unity on the side with BASIC/ASM6502. So far so good.

I just started a new role and getting my foot wet in the Cyber Security world! I’ll be auditing code making sure there are up to date and nothing is wrong (Hopefully no body sticking in hidden crypto miners in their code) I’m currently still onboarding/training but the company sounds really good to work with so I’m hoping to learn more in the mean time. I started learning Assembly and C64 Basic again so I’m hoping to punch out some cool homebrew with some real hardware soon!

Our first game under the mockinbird.dev has been released for NaNoRenO 2022! Link here: https://djknitex.itch.io/echoes-that-sing. Aside from that, I know it’s going to be a small post but I started re- learning Python as well as SQL to be able to get on track to become a Junior Data Scientist at my current company. So I’m on the grind and will report back with other Python related things I will be doing (Or web dev!

We been at this for a couple of weeks taking on as Lead Developer and defactor scrum master. Would like to introduce old collaborator Matthew again while taking on new Audio Engineer, Quintin (Longtime member of Team SKYNITE) to add music/sounds for us. So we decided to use rot.js to make a roguelike based game within the bugs theme using a boilerplate by chr15m and its been working wonders while adding some of our own new features in.

[](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4eZdGnV10joncpcgOwRAUj3FAuB1hz6OFpSUbtdG92kVSgO30rqI5T7aim5SkxAYAmfWyx6maAiw71gAIRVWXL6l5mGUBw- Em03uEKvSxCESIKJQtsFtNxc6gnIdFLkQkFXHo3bJoUZCndE6Z9nBPmG9Ki9RpyuTIQ00gqMbyNWG3R84qqAR_djm5=s1292) Our meeting in Gather; Our team is a go! We are now recruiting Quintin to help work on sound/audio design so our game will have “professionally” made music and sounds! The theme for this year’s Game Off 2021 is Bugs and as we plan from our first meeting we have a direction that we want to take. Nothing concrete for now but please feel free to follow along as I post more updates.

Decided to make a new blog again. Keeping up with HexoJS was tiresome and very hard to make a backup for (At least for me.) so I decided to go with Blogger, which has then been very easy to setup and I used them for my other projects as well. I know there’s nothing now but if you like to see my oldest posts feel free to fork them from my Github.

Hey Guys. My name is Nikki X and I do a lot of things. By trade I’m a web developer but at night I’m doing many different things. I am a competitive card game player (Poker, Bridge, Pokemon and Digimon TCG), amateur competitive Starcraft player. I love making music. I still DJ on the side. I work on a Game Jam team. I also like cooking. I sometimes stream RE7 and in the future will do RE8 and Dying Light speedruns.