Assignment One: Blog Creation and First Post

Hi, my name is Corina My interest and hobbies include video games, drawing, singing, dancing, cooking, making costumes, writing stories, and making music. I like to do a lot of different things because I find that their all interesting and thought it would be fun to try out. Even the things that I can’t do but find interesting, I look it up on Youtube or anywhere else to watch others do it, like make up, or Faceups. I’m always willing and eager to try anything creative and I always want to learn more. I decided to attend Columbia mostly because it had the courses I wanted to take. Since the field I’m in is a rising field not many colleges offer it. Before, many people had to teach themselves about video game design and programming. Even I got a jump start on it by trying to teach myself about how to develop a game, but now it is offered in schools. So I choose Columbia to further my education in video game development. Like said, my major is video game development. Ever since I was younger, I loved to draw and create. I also loved to play video games. So when I got older I figure out that I would love to create my own video games. I first thought I could just be happy with just 3d modeling or programming but take an honors class in motion graphics, proved to me that I did not enjoy modeling or programming as much as I thought I did, and knew that I wouldn’t like it for a career either. Though, in that honors class, I got to lead a team to produce one of my ideas for a game. I really enjoyed that, so I decided to try to become a video game producer. I know that I won’t be able to go straight from college to video game producer, so I want to try to get a small job, like video game designing, so I can work my way up. From this class I hope to gain more encouragement to write more and become more expressive in my writing. I have a ton of story ideas but I’ve only just started to write them down. I don’t plan to keep all my stories as writings, I’d like to turn some of them into animations, comics, or video games, but it will still be useful in recording my ideas.