Jorge Sanchez

Visual Credits:

• Close-up of Video Game Machine by Ryan McGuire in Public Domain

Audio Credits:

• Hero Death by Little Robot Sound Factory, licensed by CC BY 3.0 Attribution 3.0 Unported
• Welcome Stranger by Dan Lizard, licensed by CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Solo-Dev is a interview podcast that dives into the world of solo-developer video game design. Each episode, we discuss programs and tools needed, explore techniques for effective design and the creative decisions one makes when building a game from the ground up. Through these interviews with solo creators across the industry, we break down how to figure out a strategy for building up your game with discussions around different game engines, art styles, publishing platforms, and more.

For the audio, I picked a couple of sounds that I think kick-starts you into a video-gamey atmosphere. I lowered the volume on the background music, all of which was put together in Canva.

Photo edited in Canva.

About a month after he was finished recovering from a bladder stone surgery and spending 95% of that time medicated or laying down, we started to think our dog Prince needed some enrichment. To celebrate his speedy recovery, we took a drive up to Lumpkin, Georgia for a visit to Providence Canyon State Park. As we suspected, he was really excited to be up and about, and spent the whole three mile trek leading us on his leash. Since it had rained recently, there were puddles in the clay-heavy dirt around the hike trail, and he ended up with the dog equivalent of dorito fingers, which we found pretty hilarious. This is him around the very end of the trail, when he started to get a little tired and ready to go home.

Or maybe it was the frightening clay snowman we saw on the trail that skeeved him out, he didn’t really say. In the Live version of the image, he talks a half-look back at the haunted looking snowman. At this point, there were a couple of reasons to head on out, but not before this picture was taken.

While searching for images, I came across this picture of the Lady Luck building taken in Vegas, circa 2007 by Dan4th. The song, created by Francisco Pinto, is titled Tele-Viaje-Interior, which pretty roughly translates to remote inner journey. That building there doesn’t look like that anymore. In fact, the whole block has changed since then, but here it looks not just stuck in time but in space. Not here space, but slightly-over-there space, just out of your reach. The dusky sky makes it look like it spontaneously re-appeared on Mars, with its structure intact and framed by the planet’s blue-gray sunsets. There’s no valet, and the tarped fence leading into the entrance gives you the feeling that it’s the last stop (only stop?) on our far out rock. As you’re treading the moving walkway toward the doorway, this is the music that starts pumping through your spacesuit. Everything looks the same on the inside, but you weren’t there in Nevada, and the picture only shows what it shows, so what can you know? Back here now, it’s called the Downtown Grand Hotel. You can look it up.

_{Life on another Planet. by Jorge Sanchez is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.}

Introduction

Good afternoon, everyone! My name is Jorge Sanchez. I was raised in Miami, FL and have been living in Orlando, FL, where I went to the University of Central Florida for what my parents thought was way too long to complete a dual degree program for Public Administration and Nonprofit Management!

That was a few years back, though, and I decided to jump back into school here at Florida State University to practice the arts of librarianship! That’s right, I am a Librarian in training too, yes just like Rachel Weisz, in my second semester of my Masters of Science in Information!  I’m also on a couple of volunteer boards, where I work with museums and marginalized groups to bring about a little culture and belonging into the scene, it’s good fun.

In the meantime, I’m picking up and sharpening skills working at a library in Orlando, with a pretty sweet Makerspace. Typically I’m teaching classes, or doing some 3D modeling, or showing people how to use a laser cutter without setting anything else on fire. Up there is me with one of my creations. Down here is a 3D printable unknown box we found on the internet that we use to stuff some tools into, and that’s just one of the few capabilities of the Makerspace!

I’m looking forward to this class due to its focus on design in digital media. As someone who is constantly working with digitized everything, learning the aspect of production for what I see in my everyday life is an exciting prospect.