More Game Off 2019 Prep

Hey, I just wanted to give a quick update as to what I've been up to recently.  I bought a Unity Book Bundle from Humble Bundle.  It had a Cookbook for Unity 2018, and had some videos on how to develop games using Unity and C#.  I don't know if I'll use it for the Game Off or not.  I will have to read into more, though.

Jedulz also told me about glitch.com.  It is a collaborative web app developer tool, and that's pretty neat.  It runs a little bit like Google Docs.  However, it seems like it only works with the three Website Languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  Which is great, if I wanted to create another game like Shield Bearer that you can play from the browser.  Since we have so many languages to choose from for this Game Jam, I'm having a difficult time figuring out which one I want to use.  I also love learning new programming languages, too!  Which is what is making this decision so hard: go with the tried and true JavaScript language, where I can get something up and running fairly quickly, or use this game jam as motivation to learn another language (just like I did with the JS13K Games Competition).

I'll leave JavaScript as a fall back option, but I'll keep looking into alternative programming languages.  I might decide once I know this year's theme.  I officially joined the jam today, as well.  Hopefully, I'll get to know the theme early enough to make a good, informed, decision on which language to use.

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