Interesting week

A little late with this weeks entry, but it has been an interesting week.

The earlier part of the week has been largely uneventful. I began work on a new project and had a few call backs for possible work interest.

Yesterday I was at the Liverpool Sound City festival where I met the awesome Don Whiteford from Nomad Games (formerly Digital Image Design, Rage, THQ) who was there promoting their new game Talisman, and Roderick Kennedy of Simul (formerly Evolution Studios, Digital Image Design), both of whom were involved in developing what is still my favourite flight sim of all time, F22 Air Dominance Fighter (Youtube link). I had a great time meeting them, there was some very interesting conversation and I got a lot of perspective from talking to them. Thanks guys!

Other notables were RedTouch Media, PPL, Black and Ginger and Milky Tea, who are best known for their 3D animation work on the Lloyds TSB advertisement on British TV and the game Coffin Dodgers, which is currently on Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight.

All in all a productive week for networking.

Next week I will be attending a social event for local devs in my area.

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Hello!

Enjoying some rays in my home town.

Finally the site is up and running...

Hello and welcome to the first entry in what I hope is many, cataloguing my adventures as I begin my journey into app developer entrepreneurship.


This year has been very interesting and has given me a lot to think about. I have had to contend with personal baggage that I didn't realise I was carrying around, I have grown a lot from realising it and I have recognised some things missing in my life which I did not know I wanted.
I have found new goals, I have said goodbye to a family member who sadly passed away a short while ago and this week, I have had to say what I can only hope is not a permanent goodbye to the one person in my life outside of my family that I can truly say I deeply care for.

I have just completed my final year at university and registered myself as an iOS developer with Apple. Since Objective-C was my university's language of choice for the majority of my final year and is the language I have been most productive with thus far, it seemed the obvious direction to take.


Of course I also plan on learning Android development, for which having some previous experience in Java is going to be useful and I will hopefully get around to developing multi platform apps eventually. Yes, I will also be learning Swift, but I am not sure how much I will get around to covering here. I hope to be able to have some apps out on the App store before the year is out however, after which I may develop some tutorials for the site.

For now, I will be seeking employment and moving house so the first couple of months may be a little turbulent. I'm sure that I will still find some time to sit, while nursing a cup of coffee in the nearest coffee shop and update this blog however.

Allons-y!

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