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Working Plan 2024 Revised

 Working Plan for 2024 (revised 4/16)

  • Learn React: NextJS by Example (Complete)
  • Improve Online Presence: Blog, LinkedIn, etc
  • FUNFT NextJS Online Game
  • Godot Demo Projects
  • Large Game Project
  • Finish Zoomies


Learn React: NextJS by Example (Complete!)

My original goal was to complete the NextJS course by Feb 2nd.  It wound up taking me until Mar 15th to complete, but I still believe the course was very useful to my career development and I have an official certificate.

Improve Online Presence

This project is still underway. In an effort to make my goals more timely, I'm going to set an estimate for completion for each of these tasks. I may get them done sooner, but I just want a roadmap to keep me motivated. See dates below.

    This project has multiple parts: Improving my LinkedIn profile, Creating a personal webpage for my projects, Making a blog, Improving my Itch.io page.

LinkedIn Profile (Complete by 4/19): This should be pretty self-evident. I need to update the profile with up-to-date information, a new portrait, and pay more attention to posts.

Personal Website (Complete by 5/3): I want to make a personal site that offers quick access to projects I’ve worked on and an online resume.

Making a blog (Complete by 5/10): similar to my website, I want a professional blog that I can use to provide updates on my projects and so that I can link social media posts to like Mastodon.  I might use a program called Ghost to make my blog.

Itch.io (Complete by 5/24): If I dive deeper into attempting to self-publish video games then I need to create a more appealing looking developer page on itch.io to help with my personal brand.

I will work on this project concurrently with my other projects.

FUNFT NextJS Online Game

Utilizing the skills I've gained learning NextJS. I'm going to make a web-based game about NFTs. Here is an estimated timeline:

Functional site running: 5/3

Basic Functionality Complete: 5/31

 Version 1.0 Project Completion: 6/28

Finish Zoomies

I would like to complete 3 additional levels for Zoomies as well as improve the artwork and sound design of the game.  I also received some feedback for some portions of the game that need bug fixing, especially the wall-running mechanic.  It’s difficult to say exactly how long this will take, but based on my previous experience working on the game I want to estimate the remaining work at about 6 weeks or 120 hours. If work begins in July I should be done by July 19th.

Godot Demo Projects

I would like to come up with a few ideas for demos in Godot to demonstrate proficiency and proof-of-concept for future game ideas. Maybe another 8 weeks worth of work.

Large Game Project or Expansion of fuNFT Site

After completing the fuNFT project and expanding the Zoomies game a bit. I hope to have a better idea of whether I want to focus my skills on Web Development or Game Development. At this point in the year, probably around September I will either try to expand the fuNFT site with more features and promotion or I will design a new game project to add to my store.


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