Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Assigned a New Task

I am an intern at the company Adam Jones Productions. I was first hired on as a content provider for fiction for a game that is being developed. After a while though I was assigned to QA administering for their game which granted me the power to have people test the game after they have signed an NDA. My friend Jordan Card went from being an intern at the company to a full time worker programming games in Flash for Adam Jones Productions.

A few weeks ago the project manager at the company asked me to do some XNA programming for a couple of mini games to be released on Xbox Live Indie Games. However, upon a meeting with Joe Adams (producer, and owner) and Jordan Card at the CoLab I took it upon myself to start learning the Unity Engine. When Joe Adams was observing me learning and familiarizing myself with the interface of Unity, he asked me if I should develop the mini games on Unity rather than XNA. I would like to learn and develop on the Unity Engine, but I would have to discuss it with the project manager to see if he would be all right with me learning a brand new engine I am starting to learn or keep going with XNA which I have used in the past.