Friday, February 19, 2010
I know it's been a little longer than I said it would be, but moving into my new place became a longer ordeal than I thought. Anyway, I've put out an open call to a forum I tend to visit alot to see if I can't get some help with the first step into my new project: creating a new Netrep site for YGO players/judges. This open call, I'm asking for people to pitch in and fill in some spreadsheets which I will use to easily create the database I need to base this project off of. Hopefully I'll get some enthusiastic responses. Also, I'll be looking for people to scan copies of their mint cards so I can use them as data images for this project.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Getting things organized....
Over the past few months I've been getting back in touch with my judging roots as well as thinking about how my life has been turning out. I've come to the conclusion that I've been out of school for way too long and that companies would not be interested in me as I haven't done anything with my degree professionally in almost 2 years. My only options at this point are either 1) accept defeat and struggle with 2 jobs the rest of my life, 2) work towards getting into a graduate school program somewhere, or 3) essentially work 3 jobs, applying what I learned in school and through Yugioh to create projects just as awesome as my original Game King project and even better than such endeavors as "Game King Online" and "Netrep". I'll tell you all right now that 1) is definately not an option for me, I've come too far to give up on anything and 2) will need to wait until I can save up enough money to take the GRE, which is pretty much the SAT to get into graduate school.
This past month I've taken the time to step outside of myself and really examine who I used to be, who I am, and who I want to be. I've been taking measures to plan out what I need to do to achieve the goals of who I want to be, including being much more physically fit than I have been recently and also making a huge step toward completing my projects
I've also been waiting for a promotion at one of my jobs which I was told would come soon after training new employees...which has been about 3 months now. Apparently the decision on who to promote is coming up and I'm an odds-on favorite for everybody working there except for apparently the one guy who has the final say....just my luck.
Regardless, my finances are starting to fall into place and if I do get this promotion that just makes things even better for me! Once I've finished planning out my course of action for my life this year, I'll post on this blog again to update those who are still interested, but here's a little insight for what I have planned this coming year:
~get that promotion at work and work harder to get to the next step there!
~try to save up enough money for my projects by selling some of my judge support on eBay
~attend as many Shonen Jump Championships as possible, maybe even learn how to judge "Magic: the Gathering" events
~at least complete the database which I will use for my projects; a MAJOR step to overcome
~Introduce my newest projects: renaming my old "Game King" project and the creation of a brand new website for all your official and unofficial rulings on cards and policies!
This past month I've taken the time to step outside of myself and really examine who I used to be, who I am, and who I want to be. I've been taking measures to plan out what I need to do to achieve the goals of who I want to be, including being much more physically fit than I have been recently and also making a huge step toward completing my projects
I've also been waiting for a promotion at one of my jobs which I was told would come soon after training new employees...which has been about 3 months now. Apparently the decision on who to promote is coming up and I'm an odds-on favorite for everybody working there except for apparently the one guy who has the final say....just my luck.
Regardless, my finances are starting to fall into place and if I do get this promotion that just makes things even better for me! Once I've finished planning out my course of action for my life this year, I'll post on this blog again to update those who are still interested, but here's a little insight for what I have planned this coming year:
~get that promotion at work and work harder to get to the next step there!
~try to save up enough money for my projects by selling some of my judge support on eBay
~attend as many Shonen Jump Championships as possible, maybe even learn how to judge "Magic: the Gathering" events
~at least complete the database which I will use for my projects; a MAJOR step to overcome
~Introduce my newest projects: renaming my old "Game King" project and the creation of a brand new website for all your official and unofficial rulings on cards and policies!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
A very long overdue Introduction...
Hello true believers!
I realize this little space on the web has been very VERY long overdue, but better late than never, right? The truth is that I've been going through a very rough year since I graduated college May 2008.
During my senior year I was so focused on making my Game King prototype as perfect as I could in the few months I had to work on it, I postponed seriously looking for a job since I assumed companies would come knocking my door down after creating such an awesome project. Unfortunately, I was also oblivious to the economic recession where more and more college grads were being overlooked and, inevitably, I became one of those college grads.
After I graduated I was left jobless for about a month, found a job for a company who mistreated me and used me for my programming ability until I essentially left them high and dry, and have been working 2 service jobs at a total of about 70 hours per week, so needless to say I have very little free time as it is.
As for my project, I had originally made a deal with my sponsor to continue with the project with his [financial] help through the Fall 2008 semester. He pulled some shenanigans on me and eventually pulled his funding/assistance when it was no longer in his best interest. I can't really blame him, it was a sound business decision on his part, but I can't help but feel a little betrayed. It was also around this time that Konami and UpperDeck started their legal battle and the mixture of losing my funding, losing my time, and possibly losing my favorite Trading Card Game, it started to seem like I lost all hope and I sunk into a very deep depression which lasted until about mid-June before Konami asked me to be a judge at the 2009 US National Tournament and I sorted everything out so that I could go. I had a really great experience there, and I was able to dig deep and get over my fears for my project and my future.
I'm still trying to find ways to fund my project, but since I really can't do anything about it in the meantime I've decided to focus on the technical aspects of it, going over all my old files and designs and seeing what I did wrong the first time and what I can do to fix it now.
Here's the video which I've posted on YouTube:
I'll try to update this blog on a weekly basis at the very minimum, and I'll do my best to reply to the comments posted here. Meanwhile, enjoy this little space of mine on the web, I'll do what I can to not let anybody down!
WolfangSD
I realize this little space on the web has been very VERY long overdue, but better late than never, right? The truth is that I've been going through a very rough year since I graduated college May 2008.
During my senior year I was so focused on making my Game King prototype as perfect as I could in the few months I had to work on it, I postponed seriously looking for a job since I assumed companies would come knocking my door down after creating such an awesome project. Unfortunately, I was also oblivious to the economic recession where more and more college grads were being overlooked and, inevitably, I became one of those college grads.
After I graduated I was left jobless for about a month, found a job for a company who mistreated me and used me for my programming ability until I essentially left them high and dry, and have been working 2 service jobs at a total of about 70 hours per week, so needless to say I have very little free time as it is.
As for my project, I had originally made a deal with my sponsor to continue with the project with his [financial] help through the Fall 2008 semester. He pulled some shenanigans on me and eventually pulled his funding/assistance when it was no longer in his best interest. I can't really blame him, it was a sound business decision on his part, but I can't help but feel a little betrayed. It was also around this time that Konami and UpperDeck started their legal battle and the mixture of losing my funding, losing my time, and possibly losing my favorite Trading Card Game, it started to seem like I lost all hope and I sunk into a very deep depression which lasted until about mid-June before Konami asked me to be a judge at the 2009 US National Tournament and I sorted everything out so that I could go. I had a really great experience there, and I was able to dig deep and get over my fears for my project and my future.
I'm still trying to find ways to fund my project, but since I really can't do anything about it in the meantime I've decided to focus on the technical aspects of it, going over all my old files and designs and seeing what I did wrong the first time and what I can do to fix it now.
Here's the video which I've posted on YouTube:
I'll try to update this blog on a weekly basis at the very minimum, and I'll do my best to reply to the comments posted here. Meanwhile, enjoy this little space of mine on the web, I'll do what I can to not let anybody down!
WolfangSD
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