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2 years ago
Hello World!
I’ve started running into several things to post about, but they all feel inappropriate without first introducing myself!
So let me tell you a little bit about myself and this blog.
My name is Ryan Batten, and this is the alternate game development-centric blog to my other, more whimsical blog here. I am an independent game developer who lives in Chicago (I know, the burgeoning center of game culture). I work with a small team of 4 developers on a variety of games. We collectively call ourselves “Skylab”. I’d link you to our website but it isn’t finished yet (shh don’t tell anyone)!
I graduated from Columbia College Chicago about a year ago with a degree in (wait for it) Game Design. I’m not sure yet whether it was a great or terrible idea, as clearly I’m not sitting at a lavish desk in a top tier game studio developing the next big thing on the market. But I’m not so sure I even want to be there! There’s something to be said for the amount of creative freedom I’ve had in the past year of struggling to pay bills with two part time jobs and making games when I have the time and energy to expend.
Enough about me, onto the blog. While I’ve been tweeting about games and development (among other things, often Chicago’s shitty weather), blogging at my other blog, and making games (beware, this site might not be finished yet either, revamping my portfolio as we speak), I haven’t yet created a place to really write my thought on games, the issues and culture that surround them, and the development of them. So that’s what this is for. You’ll end up finding things here about what I’m working on, what I think about various issues in the medium of games, and other things that generally interest me about games.
Now that that’s out of the way, onward to more interesting things!
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You can find more of me
here: www.ryanbatten.com
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