Into the year 2011

Wow, has it really been that long since I last posted on here? I meant to do on in January, but I've been ridiculously busy. From Monday-Friday, I'm working helping out on an Online game, then I write a post on my business blog, and just recently I started going to a martial arts dojo with one of my friends. By the time I get home, I eat dinner, take a shower, and don't feel like working anymore and end up playing something. If I get free time during the day, I use it to continue looking for open positions in the game industry. If I'm lucky, I work on my own projects. I finished the trance remix for the Zanac project I've planned from back in Jr. College, but I'm still finishing up the piano arrangements for it. I plan to move into work on game development, or do one of two things: practice art or continue working on music. I haven't drawn anything since October of 2010. Even with music, I only have time to practice on weekends. When I do, I practice 1-3 hours which leaves me tired and don't feel like drawing, haha. Life seems to give me very little time to let me do what I want anymore.

Anyways, it's 2011. It's the year of the Rabbit, which means I'll be turning 24. Oh man, 24...It feels weird to be in twenties when I don't feel like I want all that responsibility and age mentality. But I hope that since it's my horoscope year, I'll have some luck. I made my new years resolution and put it up on facebook so that I don't forget:

New Year's Resolution:
1) Land a job in the Interactive Entertainment Industry, or at the very least Editorial relating to the industry
2) Produce as much composition/mixes/covers of music as possible
3) Get serious in developing indie games and set up an awesome portal to my work
4) Draw a lot! Traditional, digital, anything! I must get back into art again. Video and Photography too.
5) Beat as many videogames as possible AND continue to write design analysis for each one. One more step towards becoming a game designer~

Let's see if I can hold to those claims. Aside from my working side of life, I'm not sure what to say about my free-time life. I still haven't beaten Metal Gear Solid 3 which bugs me since I want to get through it. I've been more inclined to play my PS3 lately and just these past 2 weeks I started playing Demon's Souls a little more seriously. I'm getting more used to how the game works and have beaten the 2nd boss and got my physical body back (only to lose it a week later when I fell down within a tower when I was soul farming) and started to get better equipment. The game's really fun, and it keeps pulling me back in just how Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1 & 2 did. I guess I haven't said anything since Christmas eve, but I bought a lot of games during the Steam Holiday sales. So I've been playing games on PC as well as PS3. I try getting back into playing Wii, but it's always so inconvenient since the TV for it is usually unavailable. In the end, I've been still stuck with my FPS phase and been playing all sorts: Call of Duty Black Ops (I got it for Christmas, yay!), Medal of Honor (2010), Battlefield 2: Bad Company 2, Blacklight: Tango Down, MAG, Breach, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, etc. It's not that I don't like playing other genres, but rather I keep having the urge to play FPS. It hasn't been as bad the past 2 weeks since I've been playing Demon's Souls, and I played fighting games last night with my dad. Still, if I had more time in the day, I'd be playing a lot more and trying to actually finish games like I did before during the summer. I actually really miss playing MMOs, but I'm afraid to get back into them since I won't be completing any games that way.

Sorry, no videos or pictures to share this time. It's been mainly work and productivity for me lately, and it makes me a little sad when I can't work on my own stuff and have more free time to play. Here's the link to my business blog just in case you haven't seen it yet: http://superpad.blogspot.com/ I talked about "free games" in the past week. It was kind of a like a trip through memory lane of all the free games I used to play. Well, I should really use the remaining time of the day to either work on projects or play some games before I start doing more work tomorrow.