Sunday, March 12, 2017

New Year, New Job!

It has been a while since I have posted, and a lot has changed!  Recently I got a new job at SimpliSafe as a Backend Software Engineer, continuing my work in NodeJS, which is really exciting.  Also, I now work at a place where there is no taboo on talking about where I work, like there was at Layer3 TV!  So lots of exciting things have been going on the past few months.

Other than the new career, I took part in the Global Game Jam in January and completed a fairly polished game within the 48 hours with my good friends Ben Taylor and Dawn Rivers.  The game is called BubbleDub and its a couch coop/competitive rhythmic puzzle game, where you must rapidly select the colors of orbs and complete chains to out score the competition.  It was a great time and it's always a good feeling getting to dive into game development for a bit and get a creative break from enterprise development.

I'm also trying to figure out what side projects I want to continue to work on and take to being a fully fleshed out product.  Lots of things I could work on from Stock Market analysis and learning about neural nets and machine learning to other games and the like.  Still trying to figure out what I want to invest a bunch of time and energy into, but still have a lot of projects around the house to do as well.

So... quick post after a few months of neglect, once I get into the groove of things at the new job I should have some mental energy to work on side projects and post about them.