It's January 20th 2014, a lot of time has passed since my last post. I'm 23 years old, turning 24 in three months. I'm still not rich, not a bill gates for sure. I'm now working at a software development firm in Malaysia. I still have a dream to become a game developer, and it has never been stronger than it is now. But before I elaborate on that. Let me tell you what has happened within these 3 past years my blog has been in the dark.
At the time of my first blog post, I had just joined University life and my ambitions were through the roof. I was determined to get out there as fast as I can. All my life I've been wanting to shorten the whole process of studying, I only had a 5 month holiday before I joined university from high school. I wanted to pursue a game design course but my dad didn't think that was a good idea so he encouraged me to do something more conventional. I ended up signing up for Software Engineering. I spent half of my campus life as a normal student. Attending classes, writing research papers, reviewing research papers, you know, all the boring stuff.
It was a dormant experience while it lasted. I then got to know about a new operating system called Android, which completely fascinated me. It was the most exciting thing I had come across since what, video games? I was completely hooked into the whole app development craze that came about after the release of Android. I felt like that one operating system was my "pearly gates" to my dreams. I spent quite a lot of time outside campus trying to figure out how to program in Java. However, it was far too difficult for me at the time. So my dream slowly faded away with every single time I gave up on programming.
It was at that very moment, when I almost let go of Android, that I met the one person who changed my life forever. He was hosting an Android development workshop at one of the school labs. The workshop was utter crap, didn't help me at all. However, the friendship was priceless. He introduced me to an easier platform to start app development with - Symbian. Symbian was Nokia's flagship operating system for its smartphones. I was on the verge of its death but still had quite a bit of life left in it. It had a newly developed programming interface created for it called QML, a Qt derivative. It was so easy to program with QML, that I made my first ever video game in 3 months. And to this day, it's the only 5-star rated game I have ever made. The ultimate gem. However, it was the Symbian platform and despite all the effort placed in making that game, it didn't earn me much. I decided to stick to Symbian anyway, at least till it died out completely.
Throughout University life. I balanced half of my time studying and the other half making mobile apps and games for Nokia. We even joined a Nokia app development competition and won first place. We did quite well. My dream of finally becoming a games developer was coming to light, it was amazing. The university liked me so much that they offered me a job at one of their companies. So I've been here quite some time (4 months to be exact).
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