It has been a few months since my last post and I do have a small update.
Sadly, I have not found a new role and company to call home since Blizzard; however, I remain optimistic in my search. It is a difficult market right now and many of us are trying to figure out how to navigate it. My hope for myself, and others in the same boat, is to find our way back to stability soon.
In the meantime, I have looked into volunteer positions with a couple of budding game studios. I have joined both Astrarium Games as a C# Programmer and LowKeyHighEntertainment as a Back-End Developer. So far everyone has been very kind and gracious! I am really looking forward to learning new technologies and diving more into gameplay engineering. 😁
As for my personal life, it still remains a little on the rough side. Shortly after my last post, my house ended up flooding! Looking back, it is a little humorous since I was playing Ubisoft's new Skull and Bones demo at the time. I was sailing the seven seas in-game and then suddenly my house became the eighth!
Even though we got the water up quickly, the damage had already been done: All the floors had to be ripped out and replaced. Insurance luckily paid for most of the repairs, but the construction process was long and painful. I just have half of the living room and dining room that need further flooring -- both of which I plan on having put in when I am back on my feet again. So for now, my house does look a little silly with only about 88% new floors and a giant empty patch, but my dogs do not seem to mind and that is all that matters for the short while.
As for my personal life, it still remains a little on the rough side. Shortly after my last post, my house ended up flooding! Looking back, it is a little humorous since I was playing Ubisoft's new Skull and Bones demo at the time. I was sailing the seven seas in-game and then suddenly my house became the eighth!
Even though we got the water up quickly, the damage had already been done: All the floors had to be ripped out and replaced. Insurance luckily paid for most of the repairs, but the construction process was long and painful. I just have half of the living room and dining room that need further flooring -- both of which I plan on having put in when I am back on my feet again. So for now, my house does look a little silly with only about 88% new floors and a giant empty patch, but my dogs do not seem to mind and that is all that matters for the short while.
Now that (most) repairs are done and (most of) the after-construction cleaning is done, I am looking forward to finally fixing my website (in addition to my volunteer duties, of course). I last migrated the code over from Blazor Server to Blazor WebAssembly and that fixed the old Blazor Server bug mentioned in the previous post, but now there are a few other errors that are popping up. If you happen across a "reload" notification, please feel free to refresh the page to continue; I am going to try to get this fixed as soon as I can. I truly apologize for the inconvenience!
In summary, I can say that life has indeed been a little strenuous, but I continue to learn, grow, and persevere!
