Alex.SilR's Journal

My journey to becoming an independent game developer
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 9
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On 9 I read chapters 7 and 8 of the book Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials and watched Parts 6 and 7 of the video lesson Blender 2.6 Essential training.

In Chapter 7 of the book is built a mini-game where the player has to shoot down all three targets with cocon…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 8 - Unity, Blender and Productivity Power Tools
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

Day 8 was much more productive that this weekend (day 6 and 7). I read chapter 5 and 6 of the book Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials and watch more video lessons of Blender.

The chapter 5 did an introduction to collisions and implemented in three different ways …
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 7
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 7 the idleness was predominant, in fact I don't even did the college work. I just watched a few videos from Blender 2.6 Essential Training.

Until now the videos lessons just talks about tools that can be used, the only thing that was really modeled was a crea…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 6 - Blender 3D
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 6 I took a break at Unity for watching Blender 2.6 Essential Training.

I already had some contact with Blender a few years ago, but I'll need remember everything. The three first chapter talks about the new interface of the Blender 2.6, navigation, selection …
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 5 - Tumblr, Chapter 4, Find() and Strip
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 5 I create this tumblr, posted the pass days and finish of read the chapter 4 of the book.

As I said earlier I had begun writing at Penzu, but I decided write in some place public and more known. As I wanted something simple and practical I opted for tumblr i…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 4 - What time is it?
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

The day 4 already started with a setback!

I set the alarm clock to 7:30. I don't know if the alarm didn't ring or I haven't heard, summarizing: I woke up 11am!

Apart from this setback I researched an online journal, and I found Penzu. The idea is write what I did in …
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 3
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 3 I basically read chapter 2 and 3 of the book. Until now I haven't learning something new, but I'm remembering a lot. The chapter 2 talks about script e some general concepts of Unity. A simple shooter was made in the final of the chapter (shoot spheres int…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 2
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 2 I started reading the book and did a little research about GDD and how become indie game developer.

The research about GDD was very quickly, but I found some interesting things, like:

  • GOD - Game Overview Document
  • IDD - Initial Design Document
  • GameBible

    I did th…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 1
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

On day 1 I made an organizational housecleaning in my room, took off my PC and now I'm just using the notebook. It may seem that it was a simple thing, but it actually took almost all day and I ended up missing in college because of it.

I also configured the virtual…
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AlexSilR
November 05, 2012
Day 0
Mirrored from my blog (en, pt-br).

My name is Alex da Silva Ribeiro, I'm studying analysis and systems development at Fatec-SO in Brazil and I decided to become an indie game developer.

Some things I have considered in making this decision was:

  • I love games! - If you don't love games don't even think …
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