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New Plans for Fall

Since moving to Charlotte I've been trying to find new opportunities in the software development and tech fields in general. I still want to develop computer games, but I'd like to have other, hopefully more stable, sources of income as well. I believe I have the skills to find a job in software dev, but being unable to drive because of my visual impairment is a big hurdle. Also, I have education and skills in programming, but all my work experience is in IT management which isn't super helpful. All of this to say that I'm trying to find creative ways to work my way into the software industry.
 

Certification is my current plan. I think having some official, reputable programming certifications will help me to be more marketable. I'm starting with AWS certs. I think that cloud technology is very important in today's industry and I'm very comfortable working with virtual environments and abstract concepts. I think Amazon is a big leader in the commercial Linux space as well. I could have tried to go for Google, Meta, IBM, or other certs and maybe I will later, but I think AWS is a good place to start.
 

I still plan to work on game development during this time as well though. I have several projects in mind to work on. Let me list a few here:

  • You Can't Get There From Here - casual motorcycle driving game.
  • Troll Hole - tricky comedy platformer made in TIC-80
  • Dyson Farms - Farming/Automation game made by my brother Josh
  • Typecast - Hacking RPG featuring tower defense made for TIC-80
  • MDMaker - Custom built game engine for Sega Megadrive (Genesis) games

I hope to provide more updates for both my career development and my game development on Mastodon and other social media.

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