Life Post #1

Just a quick post this time. It's just gone 1am and I'm in the library working on a PHP project to create a user registration system and blog for people to use. Pretty exhausted and annoyed after spending ages ironing out a few bugs on my localhost server. Ugh. But hey, this is the kind of stuff that really interests me - web stuff.

It's the first time I've ever created a user registration and login system so I didn't expect for it to be finished in a short amount of time, but this is taking much longer than I thought for sure. On the up-side I've learnt a tonne about PHP and MySQL.

Anyway, I just thought I'd start a 'life post' series of blog articles so I can moan and mumble about stuff that's not entirely work related, and/or things that I don't have a clear enough idea to write a proper article about. Like in this one, where I'll be moaning about not having enough time for everything (you can leave).

Basically, I've got to the stage in the academic year when work stuff starts piling on. Really piling on. I have four projects to work on, and exams just around the corner. But there's also a lot of projects that I really wanted to do through my own design. I've not had much of a chance to finish the 'boxes' project, and I really wanted to get working on a (possibly) mobile based game called 'Depressed London.' It would be a game in which you control a small character on-screen (go see this little guy - http://www.kongregate.com/games/Moldinator/block-out-the-darkness?acomplete=blockout+the+darkness for reference), that would go through a few cycles of walking down and using the London underground. And then one time everything would be different, the place would be deserted and you become locked underground. You then go through a series of puzzles, or an adventure in which you interact with a series of characters with different mental conditions. The character you have has depression, you may come across others with anxiety or bipolar etc. and have to interact in a certain way. I came up with the idea when I was on the tube myself, you really do see what seems to be an infinite number of gloomy faces around.

I was thinking on making it in Unity, I have next to no experience here but it would be a great project to really learn as much as I can. If I can't start that soon (if I'm too busy trying not to drown under coursework... if that's even possible) I'll definitely be starting in Summer. In addition to this there's some music stuff I'm doing with a friend and possibly something else happening musically too - more on that later.

In short, I'm just a bit miffed about spending all this time on my work, and not getting very productive results. Loads of stuff to do, not enough hours in the day.

Alex.