Right now I'm writing from my job in Atlanta as a counselor at National Computer Camp. Basically, I spent all day yesterday driving here to help set up today. The official camp starts Sunday (tommorrow) at around 1 pm so until then I have free computer time. At camp I always end up having a lot of free computer time so my plan is to work a lot on game development as well as blogging. As such I will be blogging everyday about the happenings of camp.
Today, as I said, was just for setup. The camp is at Oglethorpe University which has a really nice campus. At this point in time, everything's set up. We have about 25 computers across two rooms and we're in really nice suites. On the curriculum side of things I'm going to be in charge of 2D game design (I was hoping for that role this year). I have a lot of plans, one of which includes forcing (jokingly of course) one of the campers to make a Sonic game. In all honesty it would be a good project. Other than that I've been hanging out with the three other counselors and the director of the camp and essentially settling into the rhythm of life for this week. I'm really excited and there isn't sufficient time left for me tonight to really explore my feelings about how wonderful this camp is. We're going to be heading to the dorms in less than 15 minutes. I plan on reading and notebook designing and even possibly writing tonight. This would make me uber-prepared for free-time I will have tommorrow. As I said, game development is going to be my activity and I'm not going to let anything except for the work here to distract me. Anyway that's it. It's sort of boring but tommorrow through the rest of the week is when exciting blog posts will come (not all will be about my day, some will be carefully composed blogs)
Also, one of the game designs I plan on trying to build a demo for this week takes inspiration from the retro Genesis game, ToeJam & Earl. Thus, I too will be participating in Retro Revival Week. That's all for now.