Digital Dave

Happy Thanksgiving to those who find their way to my website! I hope that you are nice, warm and extremely full from all of the Thanksgiving treats!

I spent the day playing the Wii with nearly everybody, and showing off Super Mario Galaxy to those who hadn’t seen it yet.  Yep, they all had a blast.

I picked up a copy of Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0c A Shader Approach yesterday. The book has great reviews, and from what I skimmed over, it looks pretty solid. I hope to start on this soon.  I need to brush up on some Math, and finish a networking project.  I actually took a course a few years back, from the author of the book, at gameinstitute.com.  So the book is very progressive, which is nice.

I thought I’d say something about a blog I have been reading recently.

If you’re independent, you should go over and read a blog Brenda Brathwaite has recently started.  She is an industry veteran, in game design, and has a lot of great things to share about her experiences shipping 22 commercial games.  She’s now a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design so she spends time on her blog writing about various things regarding design.   I just noticed she posted something today, what looks to be another good post, regarding interviews and portfolio.